You're working really hard to make this stuff upp mate.

> Alt+Tab is bugged. You need a third party app to bring consistent behaviour.

It's Cmd+Tab, and huh? What do you mean bugged? Elaborate please.

> Closing a window with window decorator very often minimizes it instead, no consistency.

This is app-specific functionality, you'll find similarly inconsistent behaviour across all OS:es to be honest.

> Recording or capturing screenshot is tedious without a third party app

Cmd+Shift+5, no app, records or screenshots with many convenient ways to select the scope of your screenshot/recording like window, screen, or just a specific area. This is one of the more polished and well thought out features in macOS.

> Homebrew is underwhelming as a package manager. It feels like Linux package managers did around 20 year ago.

It's an open-source project that's outgrown it's initial purpose, it's also not native and while Linux distributions generally build around the package manager as a central point, Homebrew is hacked together and tacked on as an afterthought, not a fair comparison.

> No global shortcut key to trigger arbitrary commands (you need a third party app). Like, starting a terminal.

Spotlight has been a part of macOS for I don't even know how long at this point, but I looked it up for you, it's 18 years.

> Bad support for external keyboard. Dead keys everywhere that have otherwise consistent meaning (delete, home, end, etc). The kinda stuff that could happen on Linux 10 years ago.

Fair, Apple have some special keyboard behaviours that aren't shared with other OS:es, but if you buy a keyboard meant for macOS it's gonna work fine.

> No sensible support for external mouse, such as scrolling behaviour is stuck to what would make sense for the trackpad, and feels bad on a mouse. You need to install a third party app to handle this.

Yeah, I think this is one of Apples eccentric stubbornness things, I honestly can't fathom why the OS doesn't have a native way of setting scroll direction differently for the touchpad and an external mouse.

> No copy/cut paste in file manager. You need to drag and drop like a primate.

Copy is there, but there's no cut, I wanna say that's another Steve Jobs legacy that's probably never going to go away. I hate this too.

> Oh, and finder, in general, is bad at almost all the things a file manager should be good at. But, someone somewhere at apple decided that labels trumps hierarchical file structures, to navigate a hierarchical file system.

I have no idea what you're talking about here. What are you comparing to and what's so much better about it? Honestly I do most of my file managing using the terminal and I suspect you do too, and my parents have no issue navigating Finder, so I don't know why this is such an offensively bad thing to you.

> Built in advertisements for apple products pop up from time to time.

They do? Where? In 18 years of using macOS I can probably count on one hand the amount of times I've felt that Apple were peddling something at me.

> Bypassing security check to launch app, as in the "open anyway" is bugged since 2016, but it's still there. And you can click on it without it doing anything. You have to google the command to disable the whole app audit thing and run it in a terminal. (You know, the kind of stuff you had to do on Linux 10 years ago).

With you here. I get what they're trying to do, but the UX here is pretty terrible.

> Moving windows around is tedious without a third party app.

Window management I concede is something Linux distributions generally excel at.

> Accessing the root file system through Finder requires googling how and running a command on the terminal (you know, the kind of stuff you had to do on Linux 10 years ago).

Most Mac users shouldn't be accessing the root file system, this is a feature, not a bug.

> The "it just works" has been Linux for at least the last 5 years.

HAH, now I know you're just trolling. Good one!

In your defense, I'll agree that many of the things that make macOS and other Apple OS:es nice to work with are under-the-hood things most people wouldn't have any idea exist without being told, I know because I'm technical and have learned one or two a year for 18 years. Needless to say there's now hundreds of such things to learn and most users have no way of accessing that knowledge.

That's an actual UX challenge!