I am sorry but I fail to understand your arguments. I assure you that I am humbly trying to understand and would like this digression to move past sarcasm. I'm guilty of the first strike in that regard, but I feel it's getting in the way of the discussion at this point.
a) I am willing to accept your statement (I am no OS expert, I have no formal CS training; I'm just a developer of rather high-level software and I've only been tinkering at home with computers for a short couple of decades); however please note that I was merely opposing the parent post's implication that macOS is the most advanced OS.
I suppose this is perhaps a matter of perspective: I define and judge "advanced" here not from a CS standpoint but rather from a real-world pragmatic standpoint: does it do the job, for whom, and how well? I observe that macOS isn't dominant in business nor in server rooms of any kind, and that Linux is pretty much the only relevant solution for most cutting-edge computing projects. Please help me understand how macOS has more "advanced features", as stated by the poster I was replying to. I sincerely fail to see what macOS has on Linux or Windows nowadays. I, for one, can't do anything better on it.
b) I see your argument as slightly derogatory, but let's move past that. Surely you understood that using anecdotal arguments, implying my mother of all users (!), had the evident purpose of downplaying my opinion to just that: an opinion, not a scientific judgment about the advancement of an OS; thereby implying that the parent post I was replying to had no more grounds than mere subjective opinions to make its statements. At least, none that I could find. There is no conflating of anything, but perhaps that was due to bad wording on my part, in which case I understand the negative reaction (but stand by my opinions, I vastly prefer Windows 10 UX to macOS as of 2017, and I should perhaps add that I was a 100% mac user from 2008 to 2016, at the notable exception of casual gaming which I've quit since then and does not even factor in my current opinion).
I'd gladly hear answers about the respective advancement of each major desktop OS because I'm truly interested in the matter, if only from a dev perspective (and obviously as a consumer/user).
> I define and judge "advanced" here not from a CS standpoint but rather from a real-world pragmatic standpoint
Which is completely subjective and also not what “advanced” is usually used in reference to when it comes to OSes. Perhaps you meant “intuitive”?
Either way it’s subjective so you could have just distilled both your posts (and points) to this:
“Personally, I don’t like it.”
That’s fine. You do you. No harm no foul. Would have saved everyone the essays & you typing them.
Related: you... overwrite. You’re incredible verbose for the amount of data you’re delivering. That can come across as patronizing or condescending. To use a $5 word: you bloviate.
I don’t say this to belittle; it’s merely feedback & trying to help. Tone can be hard in text.
a) I am willing to accept your statement (I am no OS expert, I have no formal CS training; I'm just a developer of rather high-level software and I've only been tinkering at home with computers for a short couple of decades); however please note that I was merely opposing the parent post's implication that macOS is the most advanced OS.
I suppose this is perhaps a matter of perspective: I define and judge "advanced" here not from a CS standpoint but rather from a real-world pragmatic standpoint: does it do the job, for whom, and how well? I observe that macOS isn't dominant in business nor in server rooms of any kind, and that Linux is pretty much the only relevant solution for most cutting-edge computing projects. Please help me understand how macOS has more "advanced features", as stated by the poster I was replying to. I sincerely fail to see what macOS has on Linux or Windows nowadays. I, for one, can't do anything better on it.
b) I see your argument as slightly derogatory, but let's move past that. Surely you understood that using anecdotal arguments, implying my mother of all users (!), had the evident purpose of downplaying my opinion to just that: an opinion, not a scientific judgment about the advancement of an OS; thereby implying that the parent post I was replying to had no more grounds than mere subjective opinions to make its statements. At least, none that I could find. There is no conflating of anything, but perhaps that was due to bad wording on my part, in which case I understand the negative reaction (but stand by my opinions, I vastly prefer Windows 10 UX to macOS as of 2017, and I should perhaps add that I was a 100% mac user from 2008 to 2016, at the notable exception of casual gaming which I've quit since then and does not even factor in my current opinion).
I'd gladly hear answers about the respective advancement of each major desktop OS because I'm truly interested in the matter, if only from a dev perspective (and obviously as a consumer/user).