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jebarker 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I do all my software development in remote clusters/supercomputers. I’d consider myself a power user. My laptop is for running a terminal, vscode, a browser and the various applications my company requires, e.g. Teams, Slack. So I want reliability, low configuration and maintenance overhead on my part and good battery life. Linux can’t compete on these fronts.

	▲	cardanome 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		All those pros you list have nothing to do with the desktop environment. Maybe low configuration but you can have that on Linux too. I totally agree that the hardware and the underlying Unix is decent. Audio on Mac is also way less of a hassle. I am not saying that a power user wouldn't have good reason to chose a Mac, just that the desktop is for me the weakest part of it compared to Linux.
	▲	trueismywork 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I do the same and I prefer KDE much more than Mac OS X apart from battery part.

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cosmic_cheese 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s more subjective of a thing than many would like to admit. As someone who’s been working as a dev for a decade and writing code outside of work for twice that, one of the things keeping me away from Linux is that there simply isn’t a true Mac analogue DE.

	▲	throwaway240403 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's funny how polarizing this is. Seemingly based on whatever system you grew up on, or are most accustomed to. I find Mac's window management to be something of a joke, and can't imagine why anyone would want to replicate it. I do see the value of the global menu but everything else feels wholly unintuitive to me. I can't stand that cmd+tab takes you to the last app, not the last window, and raises all that apps other windows as well. I literally never want that.

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wqaatwt 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sometimes jumping through random hops to solve things just work on other operating systems is fun (not sarcasm).

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GuinansEyebrows 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

hey, i don't know if you've considered it, but this comes across as a pretty unnecessarily-insulting way to state a personal preference.

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