Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

techcrunch.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

521–530 of 623 posts

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

#521

Post by ashark »

crottypeter wrote: post #327
dagw wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea that is a 'feature'. The problem is that ctrl+c already means something else in the terminal. Many (most?) terminals map copy and paste to ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v to get around this. Of course most *nix user use the middle mouse button for copy-paste in the terminal as standard and never really notice this.

Yes. I miss the middle-click-paste in macOS. Also the maximise behaviour in macOS is really annoying.

Install Spectacle. [cmd]+[alt]+[f] for actual maximize (NOT fullscreen). Replace the f with left arrow and you get half pane left, same with right, or up... you get the idea.

Switch alt for ctrl with the same commands to send to the top quarters of the screen, add a shift to that to send it to the bottom quarters.

I don't move windows with the mouse on OSX/MacOS anymore.

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

#523

Post by Gracana »

j7ake wrote: post #315
somecallitblues wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember that ctrl+c and ctrl+v didn't work across applications. I think Terminal was one of them. Couldn't copy and paste into it. Out of the box anyway.

This is why I prefer OSX,the command + V works in terminal because command + V is not mapped to anything in the terminal.

I wish the various linux WMs/DEs took inspiration from the Mac on this, vs the Windows ctrl-combo method. In addition to avoiding key combo collisions in the terminal, I like how in Mac OS X all the control keys for line editing work everywhere. It messes me up when I go to a Windows machine and find that ctrl-w closes my window when I just wanted to delete a word.

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

#525

Post by danielweber »

bluedino wrote: post #430
lobster_johnson wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also considering a switch, but Windows drives me up the wall whenever I touch it. macOS has been getting uglier and more awkward to use the last few years, but Windows is still the king of ugly. So I've been considering Linux as my first option. I fired up a few VMs and dipped my toes in various Linux desktop environments: Elementary, Fedora 25, and Ubuntu (Unity) so far. These are all GNOME 3 variants. And... oh…

>> but Windows is still the king of ugly. >> So I've been considering Linux as my first option. Linux re-defines ugly. It works great but it's very kludgy. Like many others I can setup my workflow on any of the three machines and have tried it out on many different machines from Dell to IBM to Apple. Sublime, terminals, Chrome/FireFox, DropBox, it works well enough on anything but I made my current choice on 'nicenes…

Maybe I'm an old fart, but everything seems to be getting worse. OSX is worse than it was, Windows is worse than it was, Linux is worse than it was. If you just want to browse the web, okay, but anything beyond that and you are off in a maze of twisty passages, none of them like the other.

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

#526

Post by greedo »

lethargic_meat wrote: post #375
sliken wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's plenty of x86 laptops that handle 32GB ram. Of course would mean designing for the CPU and not the thickness of the laptop. Apple's such a slave to the thickness that they put a smaller battery on the high end 13" than they do in the base model.

32GB ram laptops don't utilize LPDDR3, as in Low Power DDR3, which is used to reduce power consumption. If you're happy carrying a "portable" jet turbine, be my guest.

Wouldn't need reduced power consumption if Apple didn't decide everything needed to be paper thin.

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

#527

Post by johnminter »

notheguyouthink wrote: post #482
aamederen wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am experiencing the same thing, but on the reverse side. At my home, I have a Ubuntu desktop which works perfectly. I use Eclipse, Android Studio and Atom editor. On work, I use MBP and pretty much the same environment. I know it is not a common opinion but no matter what I do, I still like Ubuntu more than macos. I agree that macos looks more polished, engineered and complete but somehow, I prefer Ubuntu's plastic…

I'm just trying to find a high end laptop that will run Linux flawlessly. No trackpad driver issues. Zero. Perfect plug and play. It's the only thing keeping my mac at this point. Fear of having to debug driver shit when i don't want to deal with any of that.

You can also look at Zareason[1]. I have been interested, but my 2015 MBP still gets things done. I did install Lubuntu on my old 2009 MBP. Runs well, but I have yet to get the keyboard mappings right and a USB mouse makes things easier. I want to minimize GUI bling and use my CPU cycles for number (and image) crunching...

[1] https://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

#528

Post by shmerl »

pjmlp wrote: post #354
shmerl wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eventually they might. Or at least if they'll be relevant at that time.

No need when Unreal, Unity, Crytek and every other game engine that matters already support Metal.

That won't help those who don't have resources to add support for a redundant API, and would rather leave MacOS without some features than do the former.

Example: https://www.winehq.org//wwn/404

> An open issue with anything newer than Direct3D9 is that wined3d still depends on legacy OpenGL 2 features and many drivers do not expose some features necessary for d3d10/11 in legacy contexts. With the MaxVersionGL key set wined3d will request a core context, but certain blitting corner cases are still broken. Mesa and the Nvidia binary driver mostly work. On MacOS you are most likely out of luck.

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

#529

Post by squilliam »

wildmusings wrote: post #471
hguant wrote: post #439

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My point is that I would be quite happy to buy a $3000 machine if it were stelar quality, and I could rely on it for the next five years. Well if that's what you're into... http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-pro One downside is that the battery life is crap (5 hours or so)...and the base price is $3600.

Hahaha, that thing looks amazing. Mechanical keyboard on a laptop!? 17" 4k display! Someone built my dream laptop then added $2000 to the price ;)

LinusTechTips on YouTube just uploaded a review of this machine and was extremely negative towards the keyboard.

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

#530

Post by pinkythepig »

notheguyouthink wrote: post #482
aamederen wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am experiencing the same thing, but on the reverse side. At my home, I have a Ubuntu desktop which works perfectly. I use Eclipse, Android Studio and Atom editor. On work, I use MBP and pretty much the same environment. I know it is not a common opinion but no matter what I do, I still like Ubuntu more than macos. I agree that macos looks more polished, engineered and complete but somehow, I prefer Ubuntu's plastic…

I'm just trying to find a high end laptop that will run Linux flawlessly. No trackpad driver issues. Zero. Perfect plug and play. It's the only thing keeping my mac at this point. Fear of having to debug driver shit when i don't want to deal with any of that.

My XPS 13 9350 works perfectly with Fedora 25. Installed Fedora and literally everything works out of the box. That includes things like HiDPI auto scaling, touch screen, suspend, media keys, etc.

When it was first released, there were some issues with suspend and the touch screen, but they were all resolved a few months later in a newer kernel release. Fedora 25 ships with that newer kernel by default.

Post reply on HN