| ▲ | 7e 4 hours ago |
| They're going from Microsoft to... Linux. From bad to worse. Just use macOS and get on with your life. |
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| ▲ | JCattheATM 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| macOS is particularly annoying and gets in the way more than an OS should. Windows can be tamed and the Linux experience can be perfectly smooth depending on distro and hardware. I assume macOS can be tamed as well, but it seems like much more of an uphill battle. |
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| ▲ | ruszki 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | If you just install MacOS, Windows, or any major Linux distros, all work okay with default settings and drivers, almost all the time. Problems start when you want something else or more. It’s like when you want Docker on MacOS. Helpful people will say that you should just use colima. Yeah it works perfectly well… until you want to open udp ports (this was the case half a year ago). All 3 OSes are like that, just the flavor is different. If you know how to find “reject all” on all cookie banners, Windows will be easier for you. If you know networking and pf, then MacOS will be easier for you. If you know how to debug driver bugs, Linux will be easier for you (and fun as hell imho) Anyway, if you don’t want to do much more than internet browsing/video playing/basic gaming/basic coding, it simply doesn’t matter. // I would still say that the default network/firewall settings for MacOS is sketchy as hell however | | |
| ▲ | JCattheATM 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Personally I can't stand the dock paradigm...no way to tell if a program is running or not at a glance, and it's not easy to switch between one application with multiple windows. A lot can be changed even if it requires third party add-ons, but I'd say it's the least intuitive OS there is. | |
| ▲ | DustinEchoes 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What’s sketchy about it? |
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| ▲ | KronisLV 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’m not sure about that. To me, Windows has been the best experience with gaming (yes, including the stupid bullshit anti-cheat software that shouldn’t exist in the way it does, the devs making it truly only support Windows), the desktop experience has been tolerable, especially with PowerToys and FancyZones in particular and that one registry change to restore classic context menu. Still feels like fighting against the OS but passable. Linux has been the best experience for regular computing and software development, especially since a lot of the software I deploy runs in Docker containers, so getting more or less the same user land is nicer than subtle Windows incompatibilities (e.g. bind mount permissions, line endings, crap like that). Also package managers are just nice and some desktops out there are really good for daily driving (personally I like Cinnamon, but KDE and XFCE and others all have their place). Apple stuff has been the best in regards to the hardware integration and coherence (e.g. the experience of using a MacBook or iPhone and everything working without any driver issues on other OSes), having a pretty polished desktop experience, but also super weird things such as no proper AA on generic external monitors (e.g. 1080p), limited hardware ports, oddly locked down ecosystem and odd support choices (e.g. the dance you gotta do to install development apps, the PWA situation) and just weird choices in regards to keyboard layout and how the mouse feels compared to both of the other OSes. Okay development, not great gaming situation, worse than Linux at this point. I like my iPhone (reduced Liquid Glass transparency) and MacBook Air (great for notes or travel), but daily drive either Windows or Linux. Tried FreeBSD for one of my servers too but hardware support wasn’t wide enough, not sure what the desktop situation there is like. |
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| ▲ | assimpleaspossi 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | >>Tried FreeBSD for one of my servers too but hardware support wasn’t wide enough, not sure what the desktop situation there is like. Hardware support is plenty wide enough. Just buy the hardware that supports FreeBSD and that's most of it. Same with the desktop and I've run servers and desktops for 25 years using easily found, common, name brand hardware that runs FreeBSD. |
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| ▲ | markus_zhang 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Can’t stand the MacOS UI philosophy and built in software. Gotta skip. The hardware is pretty good though. |
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| ▲ | temp0826 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is the biggest pickle for me. Mx Macbook Airs are pretty amazing, but Asahi is just not there, and I don't think it will ever be without Apple playing ball a little bit unfortunately. (I'm currently on a t2/intel macbook and it's got more quirks that I care to deal with...but it was free so gotta do what I gotta do) |
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| ▲ | Dfiesl 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’m going from macOS to linux currently. It was the hardware obsolesence that kicked things off but I definitely wont miss the constant nagging about my iCloud being full |
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| ▲ | windowsrookie 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Just turn off iCloud sync for the things you don't use and you won't fill it up. I sync passwords, notes, find my, calendar, contacts, and safari. Currently using 800MB of the free 5GB. | | |
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| ▲ | drudolph914 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| tbf mac is starting to get pretty bad too |
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| ▲ | DustinEchoes 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The ai and liquid glass rollouts do not inspire confidence in the future of macOS. |
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| ▲ | breve 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why is Linux worse? Why, for example, is KDE worse that the macOS desktop? |
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| ▲ | subjectsigma 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46092464 | | |
| ▲ | maxbond 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | `apt-get update` bricked your system multiple times? How, by filling up your disk? That doesn't install or upgrade any software. It just updates the local cache of the registry. I believe you that there was a real problem I'm just confused about how it happened. I've been unable to login after filling my disk before, I wouldn't call the system bricked because I was able to fix it by mounting the disk on another computer and freeing up space, but I wouldn't quibble over the term either. | | |
| ▲ | subjectsigma 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | It was apt-get upgrade, then. Whichever command updates all packages on the system. I must have misspoke, I don’t use Debian-based systems all that much anymore. I remember it had a particular fondness for deleting old kernel versions, failing to install the new kernel, and thus bricking the system on boot. Alternatively, uninstalling the entire WM because one package had a conflict. | | |
| ▲ | maxbond an hour ago | parent [-] | | Weird! Sounds like maybe `apt-get dist-upgrade` or `apt-get full-upgrade`. `upgrade` shouldn't uninstall anything or update your kernel as far as I know. `dist-upgrade` or `full-upgrade` could do either. If your `/boot` partition was exhausted or you lost power in the middle of a kernel upgrade, that could leave the system in a broken state. At any rate, sorry you had such a frustrating experience. |
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| ▲ | Induane 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It is? |
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| ▲ | gedy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I've moved from macOS after 15 years to Linux in past year (niri + DankMaterialShell), it's mostly better aside from missing Miller columns in Finder. |
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| ▲ | flanked-evergl 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The monster that ate Windows have already started eating Mac OS. |
