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Who uses, recommends or left Mac OS, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

4 people

John Romero
Game designer and programmer, co-creator of Doom and Quake; co-founder of Romero Games.
loved

I have no complaints, however, because my Mac Pro feels as fast as day one because macOS is so well-designed.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: his game-development machines and software.

2017-06-22·usesthis.com ↗

Marco Arment
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
loved

I love Mac OS, especially because of the respect Apple shows for my time and attention.

His written "Uses This" interview, from when he was CTO of Tumblr and making Instapaper at night.

2010-10-10·usesthis.com ↗

Stefan Zweifel
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit GitHub Action.
liked

Both OS have their flaws. macOS just works better for me and my workflow.

His /uses page, which states it was last updated in December 2025.

2025-12-01·stefanzweifel.dev ↗

David Crawshaw
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
mixed

I have a lot of feelings about macOS: it is astonishingly painful for developers, but makes up for it with a consistent experience for users.

His Uses This interview, on the four machines he split his work across in 2021.

2021-06-07·usesthis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.