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> I couldn’t find a single example of Windows or Windows software where I think the experience is in any way better.

While overall I may say MacOS is better, I would not say it's better in every way.

Believe it or not, I had a better experience with 3rd party window managers in Windows than on MacOS.

I don't think the automation options in MacOS are better than AutoHotKey (even Linux doesn't have something as good).

And for corporate work, the integration with Windows is much better than anything I've seen on MacOS.

Mac HW is great. The OS is in that uncanny valley where it's UNIX, but not as good as Linux.



> I don't think the automation options in MacOS are better than AutoHotKey (even Linux doesn't have something as good).

Did you try Keyboard Maestro https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/ (I've never used AutoHotKey and I'd be super curious if there are deficiencies in KM relative to it, but Keyboard Maestro is, from my perspective, a masterpiece, it's hard to imagine it being any better.)

Also I think this statement needs a stronger defense given macOS includes Shortcuts, Automator, and AppleScript, I don't know much about Windows automation but I've never heard of them having something like AppleScript (that can say, migrate data between applications without using GUI scripting [e.g., iterate through open browser tabs and create todos from each of them operating directly on the application data rather than scripting the UI]).


Yeah, the things that AppleScript can do is so crazy. I've fully automated keeping 1 tab in Chrome logged into a website that insists on logging me out every hour or something. (not banking or anything)




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