'Bash support made me consider Windows again' - but ..but you know that there's a native support for bash in an operating system called Linux right?
Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
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Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
#542Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is arch so popular among switchers? It is not very user friendly and requires manual work to set up unlike, say, ubuntu
After the initial setup, (which BTW is extremely well documented on the wiki), Arch is actually super user friendly. Compared to Ubuntu, you always get the latest software, never have to reinstall, aur has more esoteric software and pacman is faster than apt.
do you really still have to reinstall Ubuntu on upgrades? or are you using reinstall in a more figurative sense?
I use Fedora, and the upgrade process tends to work. I remember there was a time when Ubuntu wasn't so great at upgrades in various situations, but I'd hoped that sort of thing would be fixed by now.
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
#543I used to be hardcore windows guy... Then 10 years ago I got a mac. I never went back.. But what am I saving money for right now? To build a nice PC again. Mostly because of the exact reasons in the article. I have a fondness for apple... but they have definitely lost their way. First, they were a computer company driven by a man who loved computers ("first" here is the Jobs return era) ... then they became a Compute…
Buy a breakable USB cable? I've had MacBooks for 10 years, and I'm ecstatic to see MagSafe gone. Apple chargers have always been shit, and Apple laptops have never been compatible with off the shelf battery packs. Moving to USB-C and detachable, replaceable cables, is a huge step forward. Also, what PC alternative has a MagSafe equivalent?
The Surface Pro 4 line has a mag safe equivalent (while avoiding the Apple patents) which also allows for distributing ports ala USB-C.
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
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Developers flock to the platform with more users. Which means Apple actually does need to focus on iOS to get more people to keep using mac. Those of us who are ios developers will keep bitching about it but have no alternative so will keep on using macs as long as their iOS ecosystem is doing great.
While this is generally true, it's a little more nuanced. For example: Android has a larger market share (by a lot globally), but apps are frequently developed for iOS first. Why? Because it's easier. Device fragmentation plays a large role in that, but part of the cost of the project is dealing with the development ecosystem (good or bad). As Apple makes the development less appealing (because of sub standard hardwa…
iOS apps are also more profitable than Android.
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
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>> The new "features" every cycle are more "lets put this phone feature on the desktop" What is it missing? It's been a while since I really wanted a feature in the desktop OS. All of the 'phone' features (besides launchpad) have made my life a lot easier (continuity, handoff, notification centre, even Siri from time to time).
It's missing high performance graphics drivers in the form of either openGL or Metal. It's missing proper support for eGPU cards, which is currently the only way to add a high performance GPU to any currently produced Mac. Blender, for instance, can't even make use of th GPU in my MacBook Pro because the openCL support in macOS is not good enough.
Mac laptops never had that.
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
#546I used to be hardcore windows guy... Then 10 years ago I got a mac. I never went back.. But what am I saving money for right now? To build a nice PC again. Mostly because of the exact reasons in the article. I have a fondness for apple... but they have definitely lost their way. First, they were a computer company driven by a man who loved computers ("first" here is the Jobs return era) ... then they became a Compute…
> Now they are a phone company who presides over the death throws of an amazing operating system that is going to be killed off to make it more like a phone. The new "features" every cycle are more "lets put this phone feature on the desktop"
it's death throes.
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
#547I used to be hardcore windows guy... Then 10 years ago I got a mac. I never went back.. But what am I saving money for right now? To build a nice PC again. Mostly because of the exact reasons in the article. I have a fondness for apple... but they have definitely lost their way. First, they were a computer company driven by a man who loved computers ("first" here is the Jobs return era) ... then they became a Compute…
Apple is a still computer company, because Phones ARE computers. For the majority of the population in developed countries, and almost all of the population of developing countries, smartphones are the only computer people have or need. I agree that Apple have shifted focus away from "making tools for people to create things and solve problems" towards consumption-oriented mobile devices. But those devices are still…
Your first line is true but only in a trivial sense. In this sense Fitbit is also a computer company. That would be a stretch, but not by far.
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
#548More FOTM moaning about the state of Apple. I can't believe people keep reading these "I left Apple and here's why you should care" articles by front end devs with no real idea of what goes into OS dev and where macOS has come from since the days of OS8. Give me a break, surely if you want to use Windows you don't need to write 2000 words in the form of some needlessly pronoun heavy (because your opinion is really im…
The days of OS8 were over 20 years ago.
even OSX 10.3, which was when OS X started to get really good, was released in late 2003, almost 14 YEARS AGO .
I know people who have been on Macs for 20 years, since OS8 or 9 days, who have bought non-Mac hardware and won't get another MacBook - that is significant and Apple should be paying attention to that.
Apple is not gated by their software costs - they clearly make a lot of money from their desktop, mini, and laptop sales.
So why not produce something truly excellent instead of merely adequate?
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
#549Earlier quoted context omitted.
I switched to Mac at about the same time as you. I can't see myself ever going back to Windows but if Adobe ever ports their application suite to Linux, I'd switch immediately.
Check out my Windows-based node dev environment: http://i.imgur.com/nJhqlvX.jpg I am far more productive now than I was on OSX. Switched over when the Windows Subsystem for Linux came out (you can see my ZSH shell running in the corner there) Jelly yet?
Looks very awesome. What term app is that?
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
#550Earlier quoted context omitted.
I too have become annoyed recently at really basic stuff not working in macOS, like I can't drag and drop a picture out of Photos app into Pixelmator to edit. In fact, dragging and dropping a picture out of Photos into any application is completely broken and doesn't work. Its as-if the Apple QA team no longer tests to make sure their applications play nice with each other in a way that has been fundamental to deskto…
Is dragging a photo to the Desktop and then into the app really a huge deal? Just curious, because that works fine for me.
That's called a work around. Its not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but its not something you'd call a desirable design trait for a desktop app.