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I use OSX as a glorified terminal and the odd game. Unfortunately it's not a great gaming machine, and it's a horrible terminal. Out of the box, OpenSSL and OpenSSH are shipped broken and insecure, and I'm not sure how anyone could seriously use Safari. Games often come late or don't work as well as their PC counterparts and sometimes require remapping joystick buttons with a third (fourth?) party application.

So by default, to do even the most basic of operations, you have to install homebrew and Chrome. I'm not sure how things got this bad. When OSX came out it was kind of forgivable for the first few years, but now that I've been using it for 16 years it's unforgivable.



> I'm not sure how anyone could seriously use Safari.

I seriously use Safari everyday. Works fine for me. In my experience it's noticeably faster, more stable, and more battery friendly than Chrome.


I want to use Safari but I just cannot deal with having no favicons.




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