macOS
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“When it becomes too old for the current macOS, I'll install Linux again and all being well this will be my last computer purchase as well as my first.”
Roly Allen Interview, Writer · via Uses This 
“macOS is a phenomenal operating system and I couldn't fathom ever going back to Windows.”
Eva Decker Interview, Design engineer · via Uses This 
“One thing I really miss on macOS is the ability to use a true tiling window manager.”
James Turk Interview, Assistant Clinical Professor (University of Chicago) · via Uses This 
“macOS is my platform of choice but only really out of habit these days.”
Anthony Agius Interview, Writer, Editor (The Sizzle) · via Uses This 
“I’ve only ever compiled macOS, Windows and Linux versions of games with SDL but I understand there are other platforms you can compile for as well.”
John Calhoun Interview, Programmer, woodworker · via Uses This 
“My Macs tend to follow the oldstable release of macOS (Ventura has been out for most a year and I'm on Monterey).”
iliana etaoin Interview, Software developer catgirl · via Uses This 
“Oh, and for the handful of (bad!) apps that require horizontal scrolling but ignore the macOS setting to always show scrollbars and don't give you any other way to navigate them”
Justin Searls Interview, Programmer · via Uses This 
“My desktop iMac runs OSX 10.14.6.”
Victor Hanson-Smith Interview, Computational biologist · via Uses This 
“My programming work is mostly web development on macOS.”
André Arko Interview, Web developer · via Uses This 
“I have a lot of feelings about macOS: it is astonishingly painful for developers, but makes up for it with a consistent experience for users.”
David Crawshaw Interview, Co-founder, CTO (Tailscale) · via Uses This 
“The only thing I miss about the macOS experience is specific to laptops; I really like the three-finger swipe for switching between multiple desktops / windows.”
T.C. Sottek Interview, Executive editor (The Verge), founder (The Adventure Guild) · via Uses This 
“However, since I refuse to buy an Apple computer just to run macOS, Windows will do.”
Luis Mercado Interview, Professor, artist · via Uses This 
“My hobbies include mild adventure travel (the preferred nomenclature these days is "overlanding"), extreme desert botany, hating on macOS Catalina, and making contemporary abstract art (both electronically and "analog" with paint and whatnot.)”
Chris Randall Interview, Musician, co-founder of Audio Damage · via Uses This 
“I attribute some success to the fact that I refuse to update my OS beyond Sierra anymore over fears that my perfect balance of apps and their current update will fall out of sync (it's fine, you can call me paranoid).”
Sean Anderson Interview, Illustrator, character designer · via Uses This 
“For me macOS is the near-perfect combo of access to powerful command-line tools, plus polished GUI apps when I need them.”
Matthew Rayfield Interview, Intern, Matthew Rayfield World. · via Uses This 
“Nowadays I'm mostly using OS X since it's a well-rounded UNIX that's comfortable to use day-to-day.”
Vladimir Mitrović Interview, Software engineer, computational designer · via Uses This 
“They've executed well on that vision, no question, but macOS feels like it's been thoroughly nerfed as a consequence and these days that platform feels like a bad match for anyone mucking around in the guts of old systems or pushing the edges of new.”
Mike Hoye Interview, Fixer (Mozilla) · via Uses This 
“While I've been using Linux for over 20 years now, on the desktop side, although I'd occasionally dip my toes back in, it had always been easier and more productive for me to use Macs since OS X was introduced.”
Leonard Lin Interview, Independent technologist · via Uses This 
“OS X is my primary operating system.”
Bertrand Fan Interview, Engineer (Slack) · via Uses This 
“My Mac currently runs OS X El Capitan.”
Claire Hopkins Interview, Botanist, educator (Brilliant Botany) · via Uses This 
“Almost all of my computing happens under OS X.”
Victor Thompson Interview, Programmer (Caper Academy) · via Uses This 
“That said, I'm not an OS bigot, I use OS X (albeit very, very lightly), Linux, Android, and iOS regularly alongside Windows.”
Jeff Atwood Interview, Developer, co-founder of Stack Overflow · via Uses This 
“I use a pretty bone-stock Mac OS.”
Peter Bourgon Interview, Distributed systems developer (Fastly) · via Uses This 
“Every so often I try to become a Normal Computer User so I can spend less time futzing with my weird tools, try OS X for a week, and give up.”
Kyle Kingsbury Interview, Computer safety researcher · via Uses This 
“My laptop previous to this one died the other day and I got a scary OS X setup thing I'd never seen before.”
George Oates Interview, Designer, founder of Good, Form & Spectacle · via Uses This 
“Most of my client side software that doesn't come with OS X is open source, for all the obvious reasons.”
Charlie Loyd Interview, Geo developer, Earth fanatic (Mapbox) · via Uses This 
“My MacBook is running OS X.”
Sarah Grayson Interview, Voice actor (Gone Home) · via Uses This 
“My Mac still has OS X 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion) on it, because new OS X versions don't work well with the FCP package.”
John W. McKelvey Interview, Music journalist, hip-hop historian, filmmaker. · via Uses This 
“My MacBook Air runs OS X, which is set to Japanese to help to maintain my language skills.”
Vili Lehdonvirta Interview, Economic sociologist · via Uses This
