• M137@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    This is something people who call themselves tech nerds often don’t understand, they only seem understand “bigger number better!”. I have a vastly more enjoyable experience with a Mac than most Windows machines, (for many reasons, but most importantly for what you said).

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      20 hours ago

      I used to believe this too, and unfortunately my experience on Linux kind of backed this up. I assumed that it would always be features = resource usage. XFCE is light because it’s missing things. GNOME is heavy because it has good window management and keyboard shortcuts. Windows 10 is heavy for the same reasons as GNOME.

      The trueism kind of works if nothing else changes, but in this case, there’s no reason the codebase between Windows, Linux, and Mac would be the same.