At my old job we used Macs for two reasons: Preview and Outlook on MacOS. I know it sounds silly to people who don’t have to work with email or pdf’s as much as I had to, but it was absolutely the right call for the work we had to do.

Also, depending on your use case it’s crazy how much worse Outlook is on Windows. Local indexing is far worse on Windows, and trying to search a big mailbox brings the app to its knees.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Preview? Am I missing something? I hate that you can even navigate through photos with left right arrows, I never use preview for anything if I can avoid it.

[–] randomname01@feddit.nl 1 points 20 hours ago

Preview is a fantastic pdf viewer and basic editor, which is what we used it for.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's hilarious, because less than 10 years ago Outlook on Mac was so fucking broken that I started a list of the weirdest and funniest bugs at the time.

Also it seems frankly insane to me that people would actively choose a Mac for this reason, and I say that as an M4 owner. But I guess it's true that for most users the OS barely matters as long as their 2-3 apps and the browser work fine.

[–] albert180@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then why do you use this shit software?

It's even worse with the "new " Outlook, so you might need to look for something else anyway

[–] randomname01@feddit.nl 1 points 20 hours ago

Oh yeah, I wouldn’t use Outlook myself lol, especially the newer version.