macos has always dedicated its own modkey to system-level shortcutsģ. > All hotkeys on macOS are different from the rest of the world (Windows, Linux) for no good reason Then again I find windows' tiling just as useless as macos' though it's less prescriptive, I use PowerToys' FancyZones there. Much easier to use a tiler like divvy or BetterSnapTool. > - The window manager in macOS lacks basic features compared to Windows: no tiling, but Windows gets it out of the box with Win+arrowsīigSur added a tiling system, but it's really just a split-window fullscreen (so you can't have one half of the screen full and the rest mixed-purpose). > My biggest gripes with macOS, after decades of Windows and Linux: macOS doesn’t have the crucial software I need: FAR ManagerįAR doesn't work on linux either, the unofficial linux port (of 2.0) advertises macOS support, and midnight commander works everywhere. > - Windows has better Linux support than macOS (WSL gives better integration which means Docker is easier to use compared to Minikube via Hyperkit vm) Rounded window corners make the first character on the bottom line of terminals unreadable And no, switching Cmd to Ctrl doesn’t solve it All hotkeys on macOS are different from the rest of the world (Windows, Linux) for no good reason and it makes switching between computers very difficult. The window manager in macOS lacks basic features compared to Windows: no tiling, but Windows gets it out of the box with Win+arrows I’ve been plagued by serious macOS bugs where it would cause 100% cpu load that could only be cured with closing/reopening the lid, and there are still some sleep-related bugs in it, whereas on Windows everything’s fine I’ve had terrible experience with Apple’s customer support in the past where they couldn’t fix broken font antialiasing for external monitors macOS doesn’t have the crucial software I need: FAR Manager Windows has better Linux support than macOS (WSL gives better integration which means Docker is easier to use compared to Minikube via Hyperkit vm) My biggest gripes with macOS, after decades of Windows and Linux: I’m in a team where every member was forced into macOS against their will, because a lot of project scripts were hardcoded for macOS by a long-gone “architect”. My gripes about Macs are almost entirely about OSX performance/reliability and command-line habitability: version over version, it almost never improves. Terrible keyboards are another thing entirely, Lenovo went through a bout of that with the X1. Either 90% of their units are defective or we're using our computers very differently. Intrusive admin software has been a problem in the past for sure - especially at Google - but I've bought dozens of these for home use as well. It bothered me when I quit the platform ages ago, and it is still bothering me now: little I care about has changed or improved. My verdict is: the hardware is usually GREAT but MacOS isn't. We've used them for work and for play, for software development and video editing and graphic design and media consumption. I gave her an M1 air this holiday season! We've had pros, airs, and iMacs in four or five different colors occupying our living spaces for fifteen or twenty years now. Between the two of us, and between home and work, we've bought or used probably 25-30 of these over the years. Interactive performance is much better, the docker-based workflows everyone's using are so much faster when they're native, and there's no mismatch between Darwin's BSD userland and the Ubuntu/CentOS you're probably using in prod. Reliability aside - and I realize that everyone values ergonomic factors differently - Linux is just a better choice in every regard for me and the kind of work that I do. I have to restart it once or twice a week. It's not uncommon to see uptimes on my ThinkPads measured in months. (Always right before a videoconference! I missed fifteen minutes of a call last week scrambling to fetch another device because the audio subsystem died and the Mac decided it had to install updates for a half hour when it rebooted.) I see people in this thread complaining that Linux distros are unreliable, but my Linux machines don't do things like beachball for 20s at a time or have complete audio system crashes requiring reboot twice a week. I did all my dev work on MacBooks between 2007-2013, but my experience this year has completely vindicated my decision to ditch the Mac at home and at work back then. I begged them to give me a ThinkPad with Linux instead, and it's been a litany of problems in the three months I've been using it.
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