303 engineers on Hacker News describe using macOS first-hand: 62 endorse it, 82 regret it, 22 are mixed.
“I've been using OS X since 10.0, after 13 years using classic MacOS. ... Apple is more proactive”
mixed · personal · 25 yr · lproven · 2026-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I went for it. Big mistake. I regret it.”
regret · personal · e40 · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using corporate issue Macs for more than a decade now and, while the software isn't perfect, it's a pretty good Unix”
endorse · production · 10 yr · rbanffy · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also regret upgrading, primarily because of the window management issues.”
regret · personal · virgil_disgr4ce · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using macOS since the OS X days of Panther (2003). ... if you're just sensible... you'll hardly notice issues.”
endorse · personal · 23 yr · sgt · 2026-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since Snow Leopard or so, most of my Apple software upgrades have been bitter sweet at best, but usually just bitter”
regret · personal · 17 yr · jchw · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude Code/Codex has made my entire macOS environment as malleable as Emacs.”
endorse · personal · GeneralMaximus · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I chose a MacBook because I knew I could both do my daily sysadmin chores through Terminal”
endorse · production · throw0101a · 2026-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“on MacOS it's kinda... tacked on”
regret · personal · PaulHoule · 2026-03-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using iOS 26 since early betas and macOS 26 for a few weeks now, and I still think about the user experience degradation.”
regret · production · Uupis · 2025-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then I started to understand why people like MacOS.”
endorse · personal · atrain101 · 2025-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have a 2015 MPB that can no longer receive OS updates, because apple reasons. And because it can't get the latest OS, it can no longer run Signal”
regret · production · leptons · 2025-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Noticed the same on M4 + Tahoe, upgraded at the same time”
regret · personal · jasonjmcghee · 2025-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“how do I regret making macOS updates.. I can believe teams and zoom are shitbags of modern software slop”
regret · personal · artk42 · 2025-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the Mac only excels in one area still today ... OS X has degraded over the years as Apple shifts to unify IOS and OS X”
mixed · production · windexh8er · 2025-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My M2 Pro has been rock solid, and although I regret choosing to upgrade to Sequoia recently, it still makes me feel better than using Windows.”
mixed · production · 3 yr · eitally · 2025-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently bought a fully loaded M4 MacBook pro to replace my aging Lenovo and strongly regret it.”
regret · personal · 0xfaded · 2025-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do use a Mac and an iPhone because I prefer them to the alternatives. If I had my way, several things about those products and the company would be different”
mixed · personal · latexr · 2025-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's a better UI in every way, less hassle, more apps and better support.”
endorse · personal · lproven · 2024-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Imagine how enthused I am to use MacOS knowing that my browser of choice isn't good enough to satiate Apple?”
regret · personal · talldayo · 2024-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using macOS full time for about four years... I've grown really frustrated with macOS.”
mixed · personal · 4 yr · tombert · 2024-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“back to Mac, without a shadow of a doubt.”
endorse · production · RowanH · 2024-01-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Osx still has really weird functionalities when it comes to multi-monitor setup. Like it was not meant to be used more than 1 monitor”
regret · personal · anonymous344 · 2023-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Mac was a nice middle ground in the end.”
endorse · production · minimaul · 2023-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The handling of the OS window manager is just smoother for separate screens as opposed to ultra wide”
mixed · personal · 9 yr · littlecranky67 · 2023-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a Mac for a year now and I have no idea what you're talking about. So far it hasn't crashed once”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · alpaca128 · 2023-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have zero regrets from switching back to a Mac after my month-long experiment.”
endorse · personal · 11 yr · tantony · 2023-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“this happened to me and I trashed quite a few SSDs. Supposedly macOS is more efficient with the hardware but having built hackintoshs I know it is the reverse.”
regret · personal · seec · 2023-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I still remember when I had to use OSX, wasting days searching for solutions after every OS upgrade.”
regret · personal · Draiken · 2023-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“CEO was high on how startups all used Macs, and forced me to use an old shitty Macbook instead of my Linux.”
regret · production · Draiken · 2023-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“MacOS is fairly visually consistent.”
endorse · personal · moonchrome · 2023-08-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using OS X since 2005 and have of course noticed the same... But I recently moved from Mojave to Monterey, and to my great surprise it has been an almost flawless experience.”
mixed · personal · 17 yr · daneel_w · 2022-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it works, my fingers are mapped to the keyboard commands, and it's the best combo of hardware+software that I've found so far.”
endorse · personal · poulsbohemian · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“since I upgraded to Ventura my laptop crashed 3 times after opening Xcode or various IDEs”
mixed · personal · mk89 · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There are still some design choices from MacOS that I don't get... but I definetely don't regret my decision.”
mixed · personal · jpcrs · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Super happy about the quality & the constant OS updates, but i miss a proper package manager like APT”
endorse · personal · SubMachineGhost · 2022-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“MacOS is probably easier if you don't want to stray at all off the prescribed path, but any time I needed to do something even slightly outside... it ends up being even more annoying to configure than Linux”
regret · personal · saghm · 2022-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Super polished and compatible dev machine vs fast linux on M1 with sane development environment is a great combo.”
endorse · production · ingenieroariel · 2022-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The Xbox gives me a much more fun experience with gaming than a Mac. Been there. Never again.”
regret · personal · jug · 2022-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“every single one that I've ever owned or used long-term has always had some kind of bizarre issue”
regret · production · 15 yr · czx4f4bd · 2022-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my mac I don't think has ever lost functionality or customizability in the last..8ish years I've been using it as my daily driver.”
endorse · personal · 8 yr · sovnade · 2022-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I still like the mac for some things, but I would only ever use it as a secondary box in its current state.”
mixed · personal · gh2k · 2022-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Macs since before OSX was a thing and have zero desire to switch to Linux as a desktop/laptop.”
endorse · personal · giantrobot · 2022-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For half a year, it was WiFi and AirDrop hell. Update after update, it didn't matter, the issues were not being fixed.”
regret · production · PakG1 · 2022-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“macOS Just Works more reliably, but when it doesn't, I'm stuck”
mixed · personal · School-Cotton · 2022-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Horrible experience as a power user.”
regret · personal · urthor · 2022-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It really is a shame as the tiling-wm story on macos is unusable.”
regret · personal · jnsaff2 · 2022-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Try using MacOS in an enterprise. They locked the fucking power settings on me, even though I use my own power at home.”
regret · production · olyjohn · 2022-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were all spending 6-8 hours per week trying bending our host OS to work like Linux.”
regret · production · indymike · 2022-06-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for a while I was kindly forced to use a Mac... It was a painful experience that took a heavy toll on my productivity.”
regret · production · lbrito · 2022-04-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently switched back to MacOS after years of running both. The DEs on Linux are just one generation behind.”
endorse · personal · iSnow · 2022-01-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been extremely happy combining the ultra-wide with macOS and using Rectangle”
endorse · personal · movedx · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using computers for over 30 years, and each and every one has issues, bugs, finicky bits that suck the life out of you”
regret · personal · 28304283409234 · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“to change workspaces in macOS without the annoying animation which you cannot disable.”
regret · personal · inDigiNeous · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I hate my work-provided MacBook SO. MUCH. I begged them to give me a ThinkPad with Linux instead”
regret · production · how_gauche · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That combined with the new window snapping is much better than macOS tiling IMHO.”
regret · personal · SavantIdiot · 2021-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“find it works quite well, aside from not being able to run a large chunk of newer software.”
mixed · personal · 3 yr · The_SamminAter · 2021-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used that iBook for tons of work stuff in my last couple of months... It was a revelation.”
endorse · production · rconti · 2021-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“many things currently do not work on aarch64 right now, and I somewhat regret making the switch this early.”
regret · personal · bmc7505 · 2021-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The CSAM thing was the final straw for me with Apple, and as it turns out, my needs have rather significantly decreased over time”
regret · personal · 20 yr · Syonyk · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The thing I hate most about Apple products is these secret member handshakes that are completely non-discoverable to anyone outside of Apples precious alumni.”
regret · personal · laumars · 2021-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“macOS does. They're consistent. They work, both hardware-wise and software-wise.”
endorse · personal · Fnoord · 2021-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Macs since before OS X came out ... I've been upgrading via cloning or Migration Assistant for close to 20 years now”
endorse · personal · 20 yr · zippergz · 2021-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But, I see now why I paid more to put up with Apple.”
endorse · personal · runjake · 2021-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Personally, I really didn't regret waiting for 11.1 back then... unfortunately this wasn't the first bugged major release.”
regret · personal · endymi0n · 2021-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I will never again switch away from my macOS that just works for the job I need to get done.”
endorse · personal · WelcomeShorty · 2021-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is why I abandoned Mac and Windows... My computer is a workstation, not a playground, and I don't need things randomly rearranged for me.”
regret · personal · forgotmypw17 · 2021-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all software and hardware this company had invested in became obsolete, virtually overnight... we have several of them. No issues at all.”
mixed · production · robomartin · 2021-07-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had 2 kernel panic complete crashes on this thing so far... I honestly expected more.”
regret · personal · blakesterz · 2021-04-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I could access everything from my personal Mac. Every commercial app I have is supported on at least Mac.”
endorse · personal · TheRealDunkirk · 2021-04-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Most stay on mac because they want to spend time in the OS and not on the OS.”
endorse · production · bonestamp2 · 2021-01-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OS X had been released about a year before, which of course meant the Mac appealed to me more than Windows for the first time.”
endorse · personal · rconti · 2020-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“MacOS is not great. I've been using all operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and I miss package manager the most in MacOS.”
regret · personal · 2 yr · vanekjar · 2020-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I primarily use a Mac for both school and work... I've been using them for years and haven't once needed to do so.”
endorse · production · jackson1442 · 2020-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the only computer I haven't found any issues with at all yet and I've been using it since November 26th 100% of the time.”
endorse · personal · qz2 · 2020-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“macos seems to have the worst window management, both in design and implementation (particularily performance).”
regret · personal · Hammershaft · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a Mac for work for a couple of years now and I find the out-of-the-box window management experience pretty bad compared to Windows.”
regret · production · 2 yr · paavohtl · 2020-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The security improvements on MacOS have really made doing simple things like a Zoom conference painful”
regret · personal · indymike · 2020-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use macOS daily for months at a time without rebooting and have not seen this problem on any of the 5 Macs”
endorse · personal · thewebcount · 2020-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“How do you explain that I've been using mac os for decades, I am able to install third party software, and I have not run into any of the issues”
endorse · personal · friedman23 · 2020-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I run whatever software I like on my Mac, no problems.”
endorse · personal · foldr · 2020-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am currently running Mojave because Apple has been guilty of this kind of garbage so many times in the past.”
regret · personal · totalZero · 2020-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A new Mac has a smoothness and responsiveness in its interface that I found Windows previously struggled to match.”
endorse · personal · chrisdalke · 2020-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After seven years of running MacOS on Apple laptops I want to ditch the walled-garden and MacOS.”
regret · personal · 7 yr · rzzzwilson · 2020-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I haven't had this experience (MacOS, 4K monitor for 2.5 years)”
endorse · personal · 2.5 yr · gimboland · 2020-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Catalina really fubared stuff that our Mac users cared about around the same time, running MacOS in a business sucks anyway”
regret · production · Spooky23 · 2020-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using macOS daily since 2007 and the past 5-6 years the QA of macOS has not been great.”
regret · personal · 12 yr · pier25 · 2019-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“macOS Catalina sucks (32-bit killed off, and the show-stopper mail data loss bug)”
regret · personal · k_sze · 2019-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have had less trouble overall than I've had on my MacOS laptop.”
regret · personal · rubbingalcohol · 2019-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“because of the case insensitivity of the MacOs system where the code reads a file, but the same code doesn't work”
regret · production · ActorNightly · 2019-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So now the Mac is useless to me. I literally can't use it for anything I was using it for.”
regret · personal · sivers · 2019-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“macOS does not expose any APIs for invalidating only parts of an OpenGL context.”
regret · production · mstange · 2019-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I always just find myself falling back to macOS with the terminal and being satisfied with that 99% of the time.”
endorse · production · dpkonofa · 2019-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my developer/operations experience as a Mac user became more and more broken over the years. ... Never again.”
regret · personal · busterarm · 2019-01-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OSX refuses to support 1920x1200 on my new Dell 2415 Monitor and ends up stretching a lower resolution across the monitor”
regret · personal · _coveredInBees · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've never had so many problems with a computer since Windows 95, and it was consistent across two different model Macbooks.”
regret · production · 6 yr · sershe · 2018-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Got close with LibreELEC, can't get anything right with macOS.”
regret · personal · Ambroos · 2018-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's a remarkably stable Hackintosh though, really regret not buying one 4 years ago.”
endorse · personal · JansjoFromIkea · 2018-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to have an Apple laptop that after updates would disable it's own wifi and need a reboot.”
regret · personal · jimnotgym · 2018-08-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I no longer use a mouse with Mac laptops... I won't go back. I recommend to people to use Macs.”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · sykhic · 2018-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I feel the most productive on the mac and I feel like the UX is the best.”
endorse · personal · qudat · 2017-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using High Sierra and iOS 11 across several devices and haven't encountered any issues that are more serious than minor annoyances.”
endorse · personal · kitsunesoba · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a Hackintosh for the last 7 years. (For work)”
endorse · production · 7 yr · tmikaeld · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using a hackintosh for around 6 years... Everything works great. No problems with stability.”
endorse · personal · 6 yr · johnpowell · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Mac OS since System 5, primarily in desktop publishing. Having that Unix subsystem opened up a whole new range of opportunities for the Mac”
endorse · production · grzm · 2017-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for everyday work Linux is far less hassle than either OS X or Windows.”
regret · personal · CyberFonic · 2017-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I would have seriously considered ditching macOS for a GNU/Linux alternative if it had been possible for me.”
regret · production · ok-repl · 2017-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Upgraded to high sierra, and my power modes started working totally irrationally with seemingly no explanation.”
regret · personal · nautilus12 · 2017-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“High Sierra formatting the RAID array as APFS by default and then announcing that is not a bootable configuration”
regret · personal · qubex · 2017-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“High Sierra is by no means a painless update. And don't even mention the new root bug.”
regret · personal · spsful · 2017-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows has been much better than MacOS for me... Windows and MacOS both give me more problems then a FreeBSD or Linux box ever has.”
regret · personal · 2trill2spill · 2017-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Work provided me a MBP about 2 years ago, and while it's not perfect, it's good enough.”
mixed · production · 2 yr · hiram112 · 2017-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I regret upgrading. My Mac was wonderfully stable before the upgrade. Now it periodically crashes, as in full hard crash/reboot.”
regret · personal · blunte · 2017-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I really regret upgrading to High Sierra, because — thanks to a still unfixed graphics driver issue, my 2014 rMBP reboots/lags/breaks”
regret · personal · jseliger · 2017-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I really regret upgrading to High Sierra, because — thanks to a still unfixed graphics driver issue, my 2014 rMBP reboots/lags/breaks when using the GPU.”
regret · personal · sarreph · 2017-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I will never again update macOS and iOS until at least few months... I've had nothing but problems with both.”
regret · personal · a254613e · 2017-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the OSX interface is a pain in terms of how it maps against keyboards, and the lack of a sloppy focus equivalence in OSX.”
regret · personal · hpcjoe · 2017-03-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to Mac because... we have moved on and aren't going back.”
endorse · production · teilo · 2017-01-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used Mac as a software dev for three years and went from enthusiastic to "never again".”
regret · production · 3 yr · reitanqild · 2017-01-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm getting really concerned with Apple's overall quality. Their competitive advantage has always been they control the entire computing experience”
regret · personal · 11 yr · taylodl · 2016-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“then switched to MacOS and never looked back”
endorse · personal · earthnail · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love MacOS, and iOS, but I'm really starting to hate Apple.”
mixed · personal · 12 yr · rubyn00bie · 2016-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I moved to OSX a couple of years ago... After mountain lion I regret every single upgrade.”
regret · personal · 2 yr · mf2hd · 2016-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“MacOS, in spite of its recent slight drop in quality, is still second to none”
endorse · personal · 12 yr · renaudg · 2016-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched to macOS from Linux two weeks ago and I am starting to regret that decision.”
regret · personal · guessmyname · 2016-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I personally feel my choosing macOS over any other OS is almost entirely cosmetic at this point.”
mixed · personal · drvdevd · 2016-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“guess who's going back to the Mac next time ?”
endorse · personal · renaudg · 2016-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've spent at least a dozen evenings so far researching / troubleshooting / preparing for OS upgrades.”
mixed · personal · renaudg · 2016-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched back to Windows 10 as my primary desktop and laptops OS after years of running Mac”
regret · production · CrowFly · 2016-01-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Regardless, I'm back on a Mac after years of running FreeBSD”
endorse · personal · jkelsey · 2015-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using OS X and Linux since around 2001 and neither have given me any mentionable trouble with printing.”
endorse · personal · 14 yr · kitsunesoba · 2015-08-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using it for the last 5yrs or so. While I use OS X as my primary”
endorse · personal · 5 yr · joshstrange · 2015-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just can't give up the productivity. ... Mac's time capsule restore was amazing.”
endorse · personal · chisleu · 2015-07-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OS X is far more frustrating and useless than any other OS I've ever used. It doesn't give reasonable error messages, and it doesn't keep your stuff safe.”
regret · personal · Retra · 2015-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Macs for as long as I can remember (I'm 30)... You pretty much have to go out of your way to hit this on the Mac.”
endorse · personal · 30 yr · eridius · 2015-06-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“been there, done that, never again.”
regret · production · duncan_bayne · 2015-05-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Just as it used to be on Mac OS X. ... I can just use my computer, like I did on Mac OS X before.”
endorse · personal · masida · 2014-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using OSX for about 5 years now and I still have no idea how to get to the parent dir.”
regret · personal · 5 yr · johnward · 2014-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In hindsight I regret investing so much time in Apple's walled garden.”
regret · production · cageface · 2014-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“recent moves to Mac OSX as the fulltime development system meant it felt awkward under OSX”
mixed · personal · 72deluxe · 2014-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a Macbook for work, and I've been pretty happy with the interface”
endorse · production · xur17 · 2014-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the OSX dock doesn't play well with profiles, so this makes things a lot easier.”
regret · personal · blowski · 2014-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use a macbook for the battery life and the no-hassle experience (which is getting worse everyday”
mixed · personal · 4ad · 2014-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when we replaced my Dell with a Mac, my productivity shot up.”
endorse · production · Fomite · 2013-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OSX doesn't do shit that pisses me off. That's what I like about it.”
endorse · personal · post_break · 2013-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am a switched user from Windows (from 3.1) to Mac. I never will go back to Windows”
endorse · personal · eonil · 2013-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The number of hacks, workarounds, and kludges in our OS X environments far exceeds that which our Linux environments have to deal with.”
regret · production · cheald · 2013-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our lead developer ... led a mutiny and we switched from Windows to Macs. A great day in my life.”
endorse · production · cschmidt · 2013-05-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If I had known that Mac OS Lion and Mountain Lion would've become so bloated I wouldn't have bought the 2gb model”
regret · personal · Nicole060 · 2012-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I bought a Macbook, gave it a fair shot, and it ended up being a dust collector”
regret · personal · rufugee · 2012-08-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a macbook is like using linux except not ass for desktop usage.”
endorse · production · earl · 2012-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also really don't like the direction Apple is taking MacOS. Lion chugs resources and does odd things like disable my second monitor”
regret · personal · 5 yr · nirvdrum · 2012-04-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“even though I've been using a Mac for several years, I still find the behavior of command-tab to be suboptimal”
mixed · personal · xenomachina · 2011-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OSX has increasingly become a wacky UNIX with a nice GUI to me.”
regret · personal · chalst · 2011-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Mac provides an awesome platform for that without getting in the way.”
endorse · personal · ishbits · 2011-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This type of thing is my biggest complaint with OSX... a lot of them cost money.”
regret · personal · 1 yr · jlarocco · 2011-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a MBP for 6 months and I love it.”
endorse · personal · 0.5 yr · brown9-2 · 2011-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Sleep works fine. Just close the lid and stuff it in your bag, then open it up again.”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · egypturnash · 2011-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I actually regret upgrading at this point mainly because of Mission Control.”
regret · personal · cj · 2011-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't regret switching to Mac myself as my Mac runs so much smoother then any Windows PC”
endorse · personal · Caballera · 2011-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't think the way MacOS X wants me to think and I hate iTunes.”
regret · personal · fluidcruft · 2011-01-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I so enjoyed having a functional laptop, that I never left OS X.”
endorse · personal · mcculley · 2010-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a Macbook Air 2nd gen 1.86Ghz/2G/128GB SSD for 2+ years as main station along with a 23", then 27" screen.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · arnaudsj · 2010-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Macs as my development machines since before Darwin became OSX and that's the only thing that frustrates me sometimes: decent package/library management like on Linux.”
mixed · production · c1sc0 · 2010-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did my time on one for a job once, never again.”
regret · production · beef623 · 2010-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ghostty on macOS and loving it there”
neutral · personal · quibono · 2026-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“having been using macOS as my main OS for the better part of 30 years”
neutral · personal · 30 yr · cosmic_cheese · 2026-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“samba issues have been a thing as long I've been using OSX/macOS.”
neutral · personal · fps-hero · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it heavily on macOS (ssh to Linux host)”
neutral · personal · klodolph · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Depending on who you are in our company, you are using either Mac or Windows”
neutral · production · rf15 · 2026-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“who can still use it for my daily tasks despite it having 8gb of ram”
neutral · production · Quothling · 2026-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using Macs for decades, but now prefer Linux.”
neutral · personal · ruralfam · 2025-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using all of my macs for years now without Apple IDs.”
neutral · personal · sneak · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use the same keyboard on Mac and Win-W is Cmd-W”
neutral · personal · socalgal2 · 2025-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We ran bots on Windows, Linux, even a Mac.”
neutral · production · JoeAltmaier · 2025-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we all use Windows and macOS laptops around here”
neutral · personal · pjmlp · 2025-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Where I work ... we've switched almost entirely to MacBooks”
neutral · production · thewebguyd · 2025-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Is it? I'm interested in hearing why. I've been using macOS for ~15 years”
neutral · personal · 15 yr · danpalmer · 2024-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“until finally switching to Mac recently”
neutral · personal · int_19h · 2024-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I worked in a print shop that'd been using Apple since MacOS 8”
neutral · production · nxobject · 2024-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using Firefox as my browser since 0.2 (Minefield, Phoenix was later) on Mac since around 10.3”
neutral · personal · 21 yr · stuartd · 2024-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Firefox on OS X since forever”
neutral · personal · grecy · 2024-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've never had brew mess up my system and I've been using it and MacOS for over a decade”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · EasyMark · 2024-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the same dotfiles git repo for 16 years across Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.”
neutral · personal · jitl · 2024-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Macs since 1986 (as a developer), so I can attest to most of Mr. Proven's statements, irt to the MacOS.”
neutral · production · 38 yr · ChrisMarshallNY · 2024-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using MacOS for over 25 years, and never seen a "Taboola ad" in an Apple application”
neutral · personal · 25 yr · phony-account · 2024-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use it on my PC, Mac (work), and Linux (steamdeck).”
neutral · production · qwerpy · 2024-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“probably one of the reasons I still feel at home on macOS.”
neutral · personal · jerrysievert · 2024-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At MPOW I have a Mac because it can be properly sealed and instrumented by certified commercial tools.”
neutral · production · nine_k · 2024-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“performance of Docker (especially on MacOS) were really slowing us down.”
neutral · production · jljljl · 2024-01-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm on a MacBook Pro that has macOS, well, that's funny”
neutral · personal · walteweiss · 2023-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Arc on my MacOS devices and Edge on windows devices”
neutral · personal · charrondev · 2023-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm typing on a Mac. It's an i7 with Monterey. ... Mac OS X contains software baggage that is over a decade older than Classic MacOS”
neutral · personal · lproven · 2023-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use macOS at home, but work at a Windows shop on a Dell.”
neutral · personal · wincy · 2023-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The script was tested and worked fine on every Mac I tested it on”
neutral · production · rollcat · 2023-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this for years, and it works perfectly in most programs.”
neutral · personal · quinncom · 2022-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we had a single shared Mac workstation we'd use for tasks like testing things in Safari”
neutral · production · donatj · 2022-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ten years ago, I started using a Macbook Pro at work because internally, we switched to Ruby on Rails”
neutral · production · 10 yr · leviathant · 2022-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Mac, Fedora and Ubuntu, and just sync my projects across all machines with local virtualenvs”
neutral · personal · rcarmo · 2022-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have a pair of macOS servers in prod.”
neutral · production · bigiain · 2022-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had issues where modules didn't run when upgrading OS versions (either macOS or Linux - but usually macOS)”
neutral · personal · nicoburns · 2022-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our code has to work on macOS & Linux, and xargs is one of those utilities whose available options differ”
neutral · production · deathanatos · 2022-03-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've switched everything other than our K8s cluster and local Mac dev away from it”
neutral · production · morelisp · 2022-02-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“macos mostly has bsd versions of command line tools which tend to lack a lot of features”
neutral · personal · jacobsenscott · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using MacOS since the MBP14" came out and haven't booted by PopOS desktop since I'm not at home”
neutral · personal · cloudengineer94 · 2021-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“95% devs use mac (there's one data scientist on windows, he uses WSL).”
neutral · production · kortex · 2021-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I actually develop C# applications on Mac”
neutral · personal · cyral · 2021-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I run it in production on Linux and develop on Mac and the experience is great.”
neutral · production · cyral · 2021-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The scanner part is flaky on Linux, but works flawlessly on a Mac.”
neutral · personal · rbanffy · 2021-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is also why I have a Mac, a couple of Windows PCs, a Linux workstation, and a BSD laptop.”
neutral · personal · morganvachon · 2021-04-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“that afternoon I asked everyone Mac or Linux. The next day we switched.”
neutral · production · indymike · 2021-02-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I switched from Mac to Linux I had to find a replacement”
neutral · personal · hcal · 2020-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried to switch from macOS to Linux.”
neutral · personal · eknkc · 2020-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As a 100% Mac user since 2006”
neutral · personal · 14 yr · jkmcf · 2020-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it since 10.0.”
neutral · personal · 19 yr · e40 · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our CI system for mac builds runs linux on mac minis and runs osx VMs inside of linux”
neutral · production · paulfurtado · 2020-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The Mac trackpad is very good. Was a key reason I left to Macbook”
neutral · personal · neng · 2020-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run on OSX, and due to the Docker file system slowness”
neutral · production · domlebo70 · 2020-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I run El capitan, with newish protools and Ableton”
neutral · personal · quijoteuniv · 2020-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm running this on a mac which is not ideal from a performance point of view”
neutral · personal · jillesvangurp · 2019-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Energy management is still an unsolved problem on MacOS (Firefox 71 on 10.14.6).”
neutral · personal · jmstfv · 2019-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also use macOS a lot. This has happened mainly due to my job.”
neutral · production · susam · 2019-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the existing drivers are incompatible with Catalina”
neutral · personal · ShabbyDoo · 2019-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Still on my pimped-out 2013 MBP... Super reliable machine, still relevant performance-wise.”
neutral · personal · 6 yr · madaxe_again · 2019-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I install updates automatically (apart from first-version releases of macOS)”
neutral · personal · frereubu · 2019-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In all my years of running Linux and OS X the only Mac-only application I've missed on other platforms is Logic.”
neutral · personal · laumars · 2019-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Syncthing to sharo Call of Duty maps between 5 people (Mac, Windows)”
neutral · personal · jeena · 2018-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I develop on MacOS using VS Code most of the time.”
neutral · personal · romanovcode · 2018-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a post-install script I always run that does sudo rm -rf on all the apps I don't like.”
neutral · personal · Wowfunhappy · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using macOS for the most part of the last decade... For me the BIG problem with macOS is actually the hardware.”
neutral · personal · pier25 · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using WebRender as my daily driver on Mac for months now.”
neutral · personal · pcwalton · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Nothing on my Mac that I miss.”
neutral · personal · appleiigs · 2018-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“cross-compiled OCaml programs on Linux and Windows and Mac OS X”
neutral · personal · rwmj · 2018-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after 12 years on Mac (2 MBP, then a MBA)”
neutral · personal · 12 yr · Amygaz · 2018-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The times are consistent for both Ubuntu 16.04 and Mac OS X.”
neutral · personal · cik · 2018-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched to from Linux to macOS on the desktop in ~2007. I am now back to Linux on my home machine.”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · microtonal · 2017-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Notes app does it perfectly now after iOS 11.1 and High Sierra.”
neutral · personal · prashnts · 2017-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've since installed and reinstalled macOS X from scratch at least two times”
neutral · personal · jventura · 2017-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The problem started after a major macOS version upgrade, almost certainly Sierra.”
neutral · personal · sjwright · 2017-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using FF57 on OS X since its release”
neutral · personal · buu700 · 2017-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Whenever my HTPC gets borked (it's a Hackintosh, it gets borked a lot), I regret not buying a "Q" motherboard.”
neutral · personal · derefr · 2017-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“mostly macOS actually, but some Windows”
neutral · production · sjellis · 2017-07-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's not the Mac feeling or way... so I use a Mac.”
neutral · personal · bluedino · 2017-01-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had the new MacBook Pro 15" with Touch Bar for several days now. I'm returning it. The Lenovo is what I really wanted, but it doesn't run MacOS.”
neutral · personal · SomeHacker44 · 2016-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Mac for 6?+ years, and _still_ hit key combinations from Windows' Excel.”
neutral · personal · 6 yr · erichurkman · 2016-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“to allow developers (who all run macOS) to use the nodes seamlessly”
neutral · production · lobster_johnson · 2016-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the feature on my personal Mac and you do have to be VERY close.”
neutral · personal · MBCook · 2016-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have used OS X since the Alpha of NEXT on a dual 533 PPC G4.”
neutral · personal · myrandomcomment · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run quite a few mac pros and macbook pros at work, so this has us thinking hard.”
neutral · production · korginator · 2016-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The underlying base of original client backup software was originally written from scratch on three platforms simultaneously: 1) Windows, 2) Macintosh, and 3) Linux.”
neutral · production · brianwski · 2016-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Coming from Mac OS, or even Fedora, Elementary seems unpolished and unstable.”
neutral · personal · INTPenis · 2016-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having used a hackintosh (Surface Pro) as a secondary machine to my Mac, I don't recommend it for everyone.”
neutral · personal · rickyc091 · 2016-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As a long time OSX user as well, I was surprised to see how unpolished Windows 10 Desktop is as well.”
neutral · personal · jay_kyburz · 2016-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run and support macOS VMs on ESXi”
neutral · production · awalton · 2016-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been on OS X for about 10 years.”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · PhantomGremlin · 2015-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have mostly been using Linux and OS X for many years”
neutral · personal · mark_l_watson · 2015-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did turn off Apple automatic update, and install.”
neutral · personal · marincounty · 2015-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using fish shell on osx for the last 3 years.”
neutral · personal · 3 yr · konceptz · 2015-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using OSX as a tiling WM since 2009 and it works great.”
neutral · personal · 6 yr · rsync · 2015-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I develop on OS X and use CoreOS in production.”
neutral · personal · olalonde · 2015-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On OS X (always with latest stable OS X release), and using SublimeLinter (Python, PHP, JS)”
neutral · personal · coldtea · 2015-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even though we've been using boot2docker and vagrant to setup docker on MacOSX, it hasnt worked seamlessly.”
neutral · production · muralimadhu · 2015-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using tiling UI and focus-follows-mouse on snow leopard since 2009. I couldn't work any other way.”
neutral · personal · 5 yr · rsync · 2014-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Mac for many years, finder is indeed awful.”
neutral · personal · billconan · 2014-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“since on all the OSX machines python2 comes pre-installed, but there's no py3k”
neutral · production · deckiedan · 2014-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using unices for over 20 years now (first was ultrix, then truos, sunos, solaris, hpux, aix, linux, netbsd, freebsd, osx)”
neutral · production · 20 yr · GFK_of_xmaspast · 2014-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Over the years I've moved away from Linux laptops and now use a Mac laptop.”
neutral · personal · ishbits · 2014-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The operating system is fine, I can get work done on OS X.”
neutral · personal · omerhj · 2014-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my main dev machines are Macs”
neutral · personal · stephen_g · 2014-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Macs since the time I put my last Amiga away, and it's never felt as cool as the Amiga did.”
neutral · personal · egypturnash · 2013-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a Mac exclusively for a few years now.”
neutral · personal · anoncowherd · 2013-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use OS X and Windows every week (and Chrome OS, but that depends on the week).”
neutral · personal · pwthornton · 2013-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I write, amongst other things, web apps that run on Mac OS in development and Linux in production.”
neutral · production · afandian · 2013-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since moving to OS X, I've left Visual Studio behind.”
neutral · production · taude · 2013-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I actually just switched from OS X to Linux about 3 months ago. I grew up with Windows, and started using Macs in college.”
neutral · personal · rob05c · 2013-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been a Mac user for nearly a decade, first machine I bought was a G4 12" iBook.”
neutral · personal · 9 yr · nicholassmith · 2012-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using OSX for 3 years now”
neutral · personal · 3 yr · alaaibrahim · 2012-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's kind of unfair, because I've been using macs since... 2007 maybe?”
neutral · personal · 5 yr · llimllib · 2012-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was putting my dotfiles into github and spend a lot of time on OSX and Linux so was merging the two sets.”
neutral · personal · jwecker · 2012-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run everything on Macs, except the tax return prep software (Lacerte, owned by Intuit).”
neutral · production · philiphodgen · 2012-04-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Automated builds are nice because we can distribute the builds across a variety of different environments at the same time”
neutral · production · X-Istence · 2012-03-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That's why I don't have an iPad. My only 1 Mac keeps me busy enough.”
neutral · personal · monirz77 · 2012-02-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did the exact same thing (except in early 2008 - been using Linux since 1995)”
neutral · personal · 4 yr · glaurent · 2011-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Today, I'm working for a small retail company in Madrid, Spain: Ten people, running Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.”
neutral · production · dhs · 2011-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after switching to OS X and getting to use MacVim.”
neutral · personal · brown9-2 · 2011-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after several years of using OS X, I have Arch Linux in a VM that I use for development.”
neutral · personal · gks · 2011-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Operating systems we run Dropbox on at my house: Ubuntu, OSX, iOS, Windows, Blackberry 5.”
neutral · personal · brlewis · 2011-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“And this is coming from an OS X user (who only uses Linux at work).”
neutral · personal · FuzzyDunlop · 2011-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all the good dev tools available on the Mac”
neutral · personal · veidr · 2011-09-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We developed on macs as well, and ran RHEL in production.”
neutral · production · scottyallen · 2011-08-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My company is rather Mac heavy, but we run Linux fileservers.”
neutral · production · teilo · 2011-05-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using linux and now OS X laptops for the last ~10 years.”
neutral · personal · brk · 2010-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using OSX and Win 7 for the last several months”
neutral · personal · abhimishra · 2010-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I already keep the brightness at the dimmest (osx), so i can't reduce it further at night.”
neutral · personal · crazydiamond · 2010-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run in Windows, Linux, MacOS and on both NVIDIA and ATI.”
neutral · production · strebler · 2010-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?