Thank you @fiction , gives me hope.
I’m still puzzled with logic, i prefer ableton, reaper or s1. Personal choice maybe. I expected too much.

Yes all OSs become bloated. 2 millions files macOS. And locked down. I really hate all the messy cloud dependencies and telemetry stacks the most, it’s evilware. It seems most people don’t care. Didn’t expected so much agressive reactions though, as it was as mentioned in the title, just a rant.

 

They are not system. And there are no idiomatic ways to throw things on your mac. Every developer has it's own philosophy where to put things. So yeahh. Good luck.

"portable" is a user choice on Windows. Mac Os makes it mandatory.

 

It is flexible. But he does know MacOS and his statement is basically true. You can absolutely install anything, anywhere you want with SIP Disabled or actual System-wide root. Installers may be built to follow predictable patterns, but as we all know most "open" installers' pre and post install scripts can be easily circumvented with simple tools such as Pacifist or Suspicious Package. Or even the Finder and text editing.

Find Any File is under ten dollars if you want to support the developer. For almost all situations, it is faster and more powerful than Mac Finder.

Anyway, all you have to do is read some threads about Windows on here, created and written by Windows users; to see why threads "about MacOS" like this from Windows users even appear. Because none of the actual Mac users have such problems to create threads about. We're not on our 14th OS re-installations like they are.

 

Current Mac mini M2 Pro, running latest Sequoia updated all the way from the factory OS it came with 2 years ago.. Previous Intel Mac mini i7, still running Ventura upgraded from the Catalina install that came with it out of the box. I can't even remember the last time I actually had to install a fresh MacOS. I think that may have been about a decade ago when I finally put an SSD into my 2010 Mac Pro and had no choice heh.

 

*sigh*
Why can't we all just get along? The whole world has become polarized politically. You'd think musicians could foster a little peace and love and understanding.

 

When the options are to either post a thread like this or more " Windows Please?" comments on sister site...