I shouldn’t have to try so hard to make multitasking work on a Mac
Submitting this article from last year on the hopes that someone from Apple reads HN.  I would say macOS shouldn&#x27;t be this hard.  I have to write multiple properties to make facetime work on my MBP?  Have to use a third-party app to replicate the &quot;window on every virtual screen&quot; feature embedded in every x&#x2F;windows window manager (except TWM)?  I have to edit properties through the command line to get wired ethernet to work with a third party dongle?  Reboot my machine three or four times before the MBP recognizes an external monitor?  And I&#x27;m not paying $99 for a dev account so I can find the docs that tell me how to turn on logging.  And it would be cool if ANY of the #a11y features from several years ago still worked with modern apps.  And the latest OS update broke compatibility with THE CHARGING BRICK?  I have to buy a new charger so I can use the latest OS?  What?  (fortunately I figured out where in the properties tree to point the defaults tool to fix this.)<p>But now I&#x27;m just ranting.  As best I can tell, the only reason to use an MBP is so you can write iOS programs.  But my customer really thinks the Apple ecosystem is cool, even though we target Linux in the cloud.  Oh.  Also.  Why&#x2F;how does macOS break BOTH parallels and VirtualBox between revs?  Fortunately the latest VirtualBox works with the latest macOS.<p>I will be very happy to leave this engagement in the past.  Seems like I&#x27;m spending 20% of my time keeping a terminal window working on the mac.<p>And I&#x27;m coming from a position of really loving NeXTStep and Classic Macs.  In the classic era, we had consistent design guidance.  Now it&#x27;s a mish-mash of random recommendations which may or may not carry on to the next OS rev.  And NeXTStep had it&#x27;s problems, but at least it booted consistently.<p>I know there are a lot of apple fans out here, so go ahead and down-vote me.  Sorry for bruising your ego.  But the objective of this post is to try to reach someone at Apple who has the ability to make things better for non-fans.