#macos survives only by merit of being Not Windows

[queen-of-bad-opsec]

do you truly own your computer, if the only system you can ever have on it is the one the manufacturer chose?

do you truly own your computer, this wonderful, universal machine, if its ability to do whatever you desire has been hamstrung by its creator?

do you truly own your computer if anyone else can restrict your freedom of choice in any way, ever?

do you own your macbook? your windows machine? can you truly make them yours, when you cant even change what they look like?

sure, it gives you a paltry few dials and knobs, lets you change the text a lil, use some different colors.

but what if the way your system lets you use it is just fundamentally foreign and awkward to you? what then? what good is a fresh coat of paint when all the cogs are one size too small, but put in place as if they were one size too big?

and yet, so many people are just ...fine with it. they don't mind having to drag the mouse all the way across the fucking screen to switch to a different window (yes, alt-tab exists, but your mouse doesn't follow). they don't mind having to alt-tab through more than 2 windows, missing the window they meant to go to, and having to cycle all the way through again.

it makes me a bit sad.

i think the problem is that nobody ever tells them it gets better than that. they think it's fine because it's all they've ever known, and well, surely millions and billions of people can't be wrong... right??

the other problem is that the systems they know don't let them do it better. using Windows? you must use the Windows way. using Mac? it's the Mac way for you. in either case, not truly your way.

but oh, wouldn't that be wonderful, a system that defines itself by just letting you have fun and be yourself. that doen't try to prescribe a way to do things. that lets you choose your own way. where you can truly do whatever the fuck you want, however the fuck you want. that lets you just own the device in your hands.

where you aren't stuck with whatever you're given. where you don't even have to use what you're given at all. where you as the user are truly respected as the owner of your system.