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    Just because it’s better than windows doesn’t make it good (lemmy.ml)
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    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I know a lot of people like macOS, and I'm sure they get a lot done with it. For me however, it's easily my least favorite popular OS. That's even considering the terminal running zsh by default, which is miles ahead of Windows.

    A quirk that recently bit us at work is that Safari has a maximum allowed version based off your OS version. Now if it was just me as a user, I'd download a 3rd party browser. However, as a developer, I have to build solutions that work for every "reasonable" browser. This means I can't use features that every modern browser has, including Safari, because Safari from 4 years ago didn't have it.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    This used to be the case with IE. you’re always going to have to support at least one legacy browser.that’s one of the few real benefits of everyone moving to chromium based browsers.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yeah, thankfully I never had to develop with IE in mind. Though I have heard a lot of people dislike it for that reason.

    You're totally right about that being a benefit to everyone moving to chromium. Thankfully Firefox has kept pretty up to date with new features/standards too.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    at my last workplace we used a service called browserstack which cost something like 10$ a month, it allows you to run almost any combination of os/browser versions. you can even set it up to access a local server if you’re running one on your device machine for example. took out all the headache of running the specific ie version that the client was reporting bugs on it worked great but you can definitely find similar services to suit your use case

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

    Thanks for the callout! We actually use browerstack too, but only for exceptions like that one. It's not part of our typical process. Really cool software