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The statement doesn't mention the outdated, underpowered, and overpriced Mac Pro specifically, which would have been helpful to the Mac faithful. A few folks I know in the video space switched to Windows because you can build a rendering rig that's over twice as powerful for less than half the price.
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Try Linux Mint + Mate. It's simple, pleasant looking, and totally intuitive for me at least.
Mate is not only in Mint.
The latest rev pushed me to a PC for the first time in like 15 years. It's partly because I didn't love the new Macbook Pro, but also cause hey..change is fun sometimes. I'm very happy with my new Surface Book. I never thought I'd like the touchscreen as much as I do. I LOVE being able to go to tablet mode for calls and stuff where I sort of want to just wander around. The pen has completely changed how I do flow-cha…
What's reassuring is that we need a Mac to work/compile iOS apps. Until they port the toolchain to iOS, not taking care of the Mac could be dangerous to their ecosystem.
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The larger size iPad Pro is an amazing drawing tablet, I’m really glad to have one. I’d recommend one to anyone trying to take notes with a pen, make sketches, design anything (from furniture to web apps), work as an illustrator, etc. I find the pen and display to beat anything else available right now, unless you need a very large display. There’s definitely room for software to catch up for other types of uses, but…
> that’s more a matter of third party developers stepping up. I think the hardcore sandboxing iOS forces doesn't really work well with "Pro" workflows. Say you want to edit a Word document and insert a picture - unless both your word processor app AND image-editing app are somehow integrated with dropbox / icloud, you can't do it; if you don't want to store your multi-gb image on "the cloud", you can't work with it;…
That is an understatement: while sandbox restrictions can be bad for users, they can be a nightmare for developers who enter the feared 'app rejection cycles'.
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Had the same thing. Turns out, I'm more of a design snob then I thought I was. Trying to move away from macOS and trying out Windows and a few Linux distro's, my god it's all ugly. I don't care much about Apple hardware specifically, but they got my hooked because of the OS. Pretty lame.
Give an up-to-date KDE a shot.
The latest rev pushed me to a PC for the first time in like 15 years. It's partly because I didn't love the new Macbook Pro, but also cause hey..change is fun sometimes. I'm very happy with my new Surface Book. I never thought I'd like the touchscreen as much as I do. I LOVE being able to go to tablet mode for calls and stuff where I sort of want to just wander around. The pen has completely changed how I do flow-cha…
What kind of anti virus program did you buy for it?
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> "Meanwhile, there's little consistency between apps (and Elementary tries to remove menu bars as a concept, what's up with that?), and everything feels put together randomly by people with widely divergent ideas of what a kind of desktop environment to aspire to." This is the product of dictatorship style development on one side (Windows, OSX) Vs democracy on the other side (Linux distros). Democracy implies divers…
It's not democracy vs dictatorship. It's individualism/pluralism vs central planning. You can have central planning with democratic legitimacy or without it. But I don't actually think the horrible state of desktop Linux is down to any of that. Device drivers are Linux's big problem. Desktop environments are a simple matter of getting used to them and learning what to tweak.
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Sun did something similar with their Sun Ray hardware and software. You could close a session with a number of apps open, go to some other location, and login with a different Sun Ray located there, and your session just as you left it would be there, no rebooting or loss of state (assuming that the Sun Ray was somehow connected or federated to the same server that had your login details and apps).
Sun Ray was pretty nice, but I want the opposite. I carry a ok processor, storage, and some memory that can hook to a dock which gives me more processing, storage, and memory. I get the feeling we need to look back to things like Newton Soups for the storage and then applying those concepts to the others.
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The mac is a personal computer.
Sure. But it's not a Personal Computer (or compatible). The term PC does not refer to any computer intended for personal use, it refers to machines compatible with the IBM 5150 Personal Computer.
Sure it is. It made out of stock X86 hardware components. It uses stock PC expansion modules. It can boot and run both Windows and Linux.
Exactly how is not a PC?
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I tried Ubuntu and couldn't get over the ugly font and not being able copy paste from anything to anything else. Plus there's no good power management on laptops and no PC ever came out with a quality trackpad that can match macbook.
> I tried Ubuntu and couldn't get over the ugly font and not being able copy paste from anything to anything else Please elaborate. I mean... Universal copy paste has just been working the last 20 years... Unless I'm missing something basic?