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 
“My Mac's just been upgraded to OS X 10.10 Yosemite, somewhat regrettably.”
Cynthia Krueger Interview, Patent agent, freelance writer · via Uses This 
“It's from 2009, and being a jerk, I'm still running 10.8.5.”
Kathleen De Vere Interview, Actor, writer, video editor, illustrator (LoadingReadyRun) · via Uses This 
“I am always using my Mac, so by default, I use what is available on OS X.”
Brandon Lucia Interview, Computer researcher, musician (netcat) · via Uses This 
“My Mac is still running one of the big cats - the one before Lion.”
Kim Boekbinder Interview, Artist, musician (The Impossible Girl) · via Uses This 
“I've been running OS X Yosemite since the first beta was available.”
Karolina Szczur Interview, Designer, developer, photographer (&yet) · via Uses This 
“I'm not a big fan of OS X though, so it runs Arch.”
Judd Vinet Interview, Software engineer (Arch Linux), CTO (Bet Smart Media) · via Uses This 
“I dropped Windows in 2000, when OS X became Unix-with-a-non-suck-GUI and stopped crashing.”
Clay Shirky Interview, Writer, teacher (NYU) · via Uses This 
“For one, I use OS X.”
Marius Eriksen Interview, Software developer (Twitter) · via Uses This 
“I run OS X Mavericks and have found it agreeable so far.”
Ashe Dryden Interview, Developer, speaker, writer · via Uses This 
“I'm on Mac OS, having been a Linux user for a long time.”
Ramsey Nasser Interview, Computer scientist, game designer · via Uses This 
“For editing, I'm a big fan of listening to text as if it were spoken, so I'll often blast tricky passages through the default OS X text-to-speech tool to assess punctuation and flow.”
Greg J. Smith Interview, Editor (HOLO), designer · via Uses This 
“I did Linux-on-the-desktop for years and years, before I finally got bored of the constant round of customisation, kernel recompilation, drivers and things just-not-quite-working, and made the shift to OS X.”
Paul Tweedy Interview, Senior Technical Architect, BBC · via Uses This 
“I now run Lion in a VM (shhhh) because although I do my entire development process in Windows, Apple requires developers to use Mac OS to submit binaries to the iTunes app store.”
Sarah Northway Interview, Indie game developer (Rebuild, Incredipede) · via Uses This 
“I'm sort of not really loving Mac OS right now, but it's the devil I know.”
Patric King Interview, Designer · via Uses This 
“I use the Image Capture built into OS X for scanning.”
Steven Sanders Interview, Illustrator, concept artist (Marvel, Image) · via Uses This 
“Both my work and home computers are running OS X Mountain Lion.”
Peter Molfese Interview, Research scientist (Haskins Labs) · via Uses This 
“My personal machine runs Mac OS X Lion; my work machine's on Mountain Lion now.”
Nicole Jones Interview, Writer, editor (Facebook) · via Uses This 
“Now I've been mostly using Mac OS.”
Micah Elizabeth Scott Interview, Hardware and software hacker · via Uses This 
“I'm running Lion on the Air, because I'm lazy.”
Colleen Wainwright Interview, Writer, speaker, consultant · via Uses This 
“On the iMac, I'm running OS X 10.6.”
Bhautik Joshi Interview, Research engineer (ILM) · via Uses This 
“I'm not in any hurry to install OS X Lion on my aging machine, so I'm still running Snow Leopard and I can't discern any penalty for it yet.”
John Pavlus Interview, Writer, film maker (Small Mammal) · via Uses This 
“I'm still running Snow Leopard, largely out of laziness.”
Mandy Brown Interview, Designer, writer, editor (A Book Apart) · via Uses This 
“I grudgingly use MacOS X Lion.”
Daniel Robbins Interview, Software developer, creator of Gentoo · via Uses This 
“I've been using OS X for about six years now.”
Matt Might Interview, CS Professor (University of Utah) · via Uses This 
“I was intending to put Linux on it, but it turned out OS X is pretty decent.”
Richard Jones Interview, Developer (Last.fm, IRCCloud) · via Uses This 
“OS X 10.6.8 -- yeah I know, shut up.”
merkley??? Interview, Photographer, artist · via Uses This 
“Lion's full-screen mode really shines on the Air, and it's fast enough for the occasional iOS development on the weekend.”
Mike Krieger Interview, Co-founder of Instagram · via Uses This 
“The operating system being run at work is Mac OS X.”
Betsy Bauer Interview, Illustrator, character designer · via Uses This 
“I'm using OS X 10.6.8, but waiting for 10.7.2 to come out to upgrade the OS.”
Vijay Pande Interview, Stanford professor, director of Folding@home · via Uses This 
“However, many Ruby users like OS X, and there are many reports for bugs that can only be reproduced in OS X.”
Yusuke Endoh Interview, Quine fan and software developer (Ruby) · via Uses This 
“You know all the stuff people who make stuff on the web use on OSX?”
Tom Armitage Interview, Game designer, technologist (Hide and Seek) · via Uses This 
“Obviously, my main OS of choice is Mac OS X.”
Mark Jardine Interview, Designer (Tapbots) · via Uses This 
“I run OS X Leopard on the MacBook because I can't be bothered to mess with a perfectly functional setup just to say I have the latest operating system, and also because I have some beloved old programs that I'm afraid will be broken by an upgrade.”
Eric Meyer Interview, Web standards monkey · via Uses This 
“My laptop runs Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard." The only apps I run on it are Chrome, iTunes, and GIMP.”
Robert Love Interview, Software engineer (Google) · via Uses This 
“I love Mac OS, especially because of the respect Apple shows for my time and attention.”
Marco Arment Interview, Developer (Instapaper, Tumblr) · via Uses This 
“I'm a Mac OS X nerd and have been so for the past eight years.”
Michael Lopp Interview, Engineering manager, reposer · via Uses This 
“My MacBook is the 9th in a long line of Apple laptops post-OSX and my iPhone is the 4th in its series.”
danah boyd Interview, Researcher, Microsoft Research New England · via Uses This 
“For my desktop I've switched to Apple OS X (grudgingly at the prodding of my girlfriend) but have had a completely superior experience and it has changed the way I work.”
Anselm Hook Interview, MakerLab hacker, CTO of Meedan · via Uses This 
“My main workspace is on Leopard.”
Steph Thirion Interview, Game developer (Eliss) · via Uses This 
“On the Mac I'm running Leopard.”
Gina Trapani Interview, Writer, blogger (Smarterware) · via Uses This
