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Posted by satis
Apr 11, 2022 at 02:09 PM
I’ve used Macs and Windows each for decades. I vastly prefer macOS for its more sublime user interface, and with the new M-series chips and their class-leading power-per-watt they blow away any other laptop I’ve ever used for power and battery life.
Posted by 22111
Apr 11, 2022 at 04:30 PM
Two things. About 1 hour after my post here, the minister I had referred to throw the towel (i.e. about 9 months after the “facts”...), BUT that wasn’t the “press” which triggered that, in its overwhelming majority trying to “protect” her, even in an “untenable” situation, but their own pairs, the “executive committee” of her own party (no more details from me since I ostensibly do NOT try to do specific “politics” here, my point being social criticism), had had voted against her remaining in office by 6:0 (obviously not counting her own vote), but after initial refusal to listen to that, she obviously gave in, and from then on only, the affair now gets sort of the press coverage it should have got from start on, instead of protecting the person by many means, thus triggering the parroting of the narrative “poor, unjustly persecuted woman” by thousands / millions within the “social media”, and obviously, it’s always debatable if “what they systematically leave out from the news” are the core parts of it or just “details”, but then, systematically, the leaving-out serve the official narratives, so the assumption that the left-out parts are very well chosen, not aleatory, can’t be refuted easily.
Whilst my point is “mobile devices serve to oppress the population, by having do most of the work for that by their users themselves”, it’s perfectly ok to discuss speed considerations between Mac OS and Windows OS, and the general allegation that the former is “prettier”, and probably even functionally more pleasant, than the latter, is very probably true, too.
But it’s a fact that most Mac users use their devices “as they are”, without what I call “spicing them up”, i.e. do some scripting, or use ready-made scripts / macros, in order to get a - functionally - much (!) better interaction (i.e. also in terms of significant time savings every day) with their machine than they would get out-of-the-box, and while most particular Windows users might do as them, i.e. do nothing about that, corporations, not only big ones, systematically try to do exactly that, i.e. optimize that interaction of their employees with their Windows machines - I admit that in the graphics industries, there are widely-used macro presets, e.g. for the main Adobe stuff, and some even do individual “macroing”, but that’s quite a tiny part, and I also suppose that the relative lack of (stationary) Macs in general administration and so on is due to this (not technically foisted) “lack” of “individualization” means.
Fact is, for Windows machines, there is plenty of macro and scripting software available, and even for individuals, AutoHotkey and AutoIt have both “communities” counting millions of users, with very “live” interchanges, both in their dedicated fora as “all over the web”, on “stackoverflow”, “superuser” and many, many more such platforms, and any Windows “power user” will, sooner or later, come across the options such scripting languages provide them, even if then they don’t do much more than applying some shared “tricks”; in the corporate world, it’s more and more Python which is applied for such tasks.
On the other hand though, for Mac, whenever I look into such fora (mostly with regards to writers’ applications), I always see that users ask if some special task (within one application or in team play between two) is possible, then they are told, it is not, then they express their frustration, and that’s it, whilst for 90 p.c. of their questions, I could come up with a quick-n-easy solution within minutes, the 10 p.c. remaining ones demanding real scripting indeed in case… all this if they had worked on Windows hardware; as some here will remember, Manfred Kühn, years ago, share lots of such macros, scriptlets in his (defunct?) takingnotenow blog, again for Windows.
From these observations combined, I then inferred, probably hastily, that even Mac power users usually use their machine as it comes (after the installation of their respective applications), whilst Windows power users have a much stronger tendency to “spice up” their machine, and it’s a fact that such a machine, may it run on Windows or MacOS, is really powerful, and only then, my scripts e.g. being “worth”, at least, 2 hours spared a day, every day, whilst both my (not-too recent) Intel i7 and i5 processors run, 98 p.c. of the time, at less than 10 p.c. capacity (which on Windows you can check by the “Task Manager” or other tools, similar for Macs I’m sure), and since most of the contributors of this forum “do text”, much more than graphics (where processor power and that is decisive indeed), your real-life situation should be quite similar, most of the time, which would then make “power” discussions, in our context, a little bit futile.
There might be powerful Mac scripting tools though, and those might even be used by many, notwithstanding the fact that for graphics, most of your macro needs are very basic, the “work” being done by the application(s), and the macros just being shortcuts for key (combination) sequences, whilst for text work, the power lies within the scripting, and thus, it’s no accident that power users (journalists), in their time, mostly used XyWrite (= “Euroscript” in Europe), corporate derivatives of that, or then WordPerfect, doing the “scripting”, as in XyWrite, within the program itself - nowadays, we’ve got a whole “internal scripting” ecosystem for MS Word… the Windows version, significantly, since the Mac version is said so much inferior.
Thus, at the end of the day, I got the impression - which may be erroneous - that whoever in need of real control, continues to prefer Windows, exceptions to this rule, as to any, given.
Posted by 22111
Apr 11, 2022 at 05:46 PM
I’m afraid the aforementioned blog, whilst not having been updated for some time indeed, and for the sad reasons Prof. Kühn had shared, has been deleted?:
http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/ - “Sorry, the blog at takingnotenow.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs.” - a step beyond which, according to me, would not have been necessary by any means, but then, it might be that after years of inactivity, blogspot automatically deleted dormant blogs, independently of general interest with regards to their content. In this case, this is much sadder than being a mere pity.
Posted by satis
Apr 12, 2022 at 12:13 AM
That was 2 things? lol
Posted by jsamlarose
Apr 12, 2022 at 03:14 PM
https://web.archive.org/web/20201021201608/http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/
It’s still available in an archived state.
22111 wrote:
I’m afraid the aforementioned blog, whilst not having been updated for
>some time indeed, and for the sad reasons Prof. Kühn had shared,
>has been deleted?:
>
>http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/ - “Sorry, the blog at
>takingnotenow.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not
>available for new blogs.” - a step beyond which, according to me, would
>not have been necessary by any means, but then, it might be that after
>years of inactivity, blogspot automatically deleted dormant blogs,
>independently of general interest with regards to their content. In this
>case, this is much sadder than being a mere pity.