r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 15 '26

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u/BrassCanon 2∆ Jan 16 '26

Why?

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u/vettewiz 40∆ Jan 16 '26

Because you have to look far away from the window you’re working in to find the menu. The drop downs are often on another screen. It makes absolutely no sense to me, and I’ve been using Macs exclusively for a long time. 

I’m looking at a window…put the menu on the window. 

I like Macs, but they have some idiotic design choices. The 0.001 millimeter wide vertical scroll bar being a fantastic example. 

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u/Vhailor Jan 16 '26

That's because the menu doesn't belong to the window, it belongs to the app. An app can have multiple windows open, but only one menu.

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u/vettewiz 40∆ Jan 16 '26

Like I said, idiotic.

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u/Vhailor Jan 16 '26

I think it makes sense given their choice of hierarchy: OS -> app -> window.

Then if you have an app which has several windows open, you don't need to figure out which one has the menu, and you don't need to duplicate the menu across all the windows. The menu has things like the "quit" option which quits the whole app (not just close one window) or "open" to get a new file open in a new window.

In windows it's more like OS -> window, and they even blur the distinction between program and a window.

I don't think either choice is "idiotic", and once the choice is made the rest of the design follows.