Surprised this article is so popular, as if this stuff is news... especially on a tech site.
Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
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"Byproduct of mobile." If you need evidence: Swift appeared in IOS first and still is not great on the desktop at all. APFS (not AFS) is the default in IOS, and still in feature preview and pretty unusable in 10.12. It's "expected" it will be released for desktop in 2017 Siri on the desktop is mostly useless, as said here.
> Swift appeared in IOS first Which makes perfect sense. We talk to our phones all the time anyway, and hands-free is crucial. For desktop, not so much. > APFS (not AFS) is the default in IOS, and still in feature preview and pretty unusable in 10.12. It's "expected" it will be released for desktop in 2017 Which makes perfect sense. A constrained environment without an exposed filesystem like iOS is easier to convert…
Yeah our desktops are just the thing we use to make those, no big deal really
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
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What about windows 7 was so great? The start menu? Windows 10 has a 5 second boot up time, most all annoyances anyone has online can be configured away, and it is insanely stable (haven't had it once crash on me yet).
That's quite an assumption
Thanks, I'm quite good at those.
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
#574How well does that Linux subsystem thing work? Can I just use it and pretend it's a Unix? Can I ssh, grep, make, gradle, etc? Is there anything like Homebrew for me to install stuff with?
It's not that bad. It runs node well and I can ssh out of it and do the things you describe. Powershell is an improvement from command prompt but it's still not as nice as terminal / iterm / gnome terminal.
And it's ubuntu, so you can apt-get install build-essential & whatever else you need. It doesn't do upstart or /etc/init.d services (like if you wanted to run mongo as a service) but it runs mongo instances fine for me while I develop locally.
I spent my first full day developing on a win10 box this weekend & it went fine. But since I've switched to webstorm for most of my development what o/s I'm running hardly matters outside of keyboard shortcuts.
For anyone considering switching, I'd recommend buying the "pro" version as you can use the services feature to turn off things like cortana or the automatically-restarting windows defender. It would like to do a whole lot of spying by default, more than I'm surprised people are comfortable with.
But as many in this discussion have said, please give linux (and especially gnome 3 a shot). It's a pleasure to work with, and if I could stream legal tv services and run photoshop there's no question it's what I'd run.
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
#575Why Windows? A more natural choice for MacOS user is Linux. And especially since the author finds Linux subsystem on Windows useful, why bother with Windows to begin with?
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
#576I'm giving this a +1 just for that final picture of the cat staring down into the PC.
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
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> I want the possibility to dual boot or share drives with other operating systems, I don't need a new proprietary filesystem. Then you're in luck. APFS isn't proprietary, as Apple's website claims that "Apple plans to document and publish the APFS volume format specification when Apple File System is released for macOS in 2017." So there will be nothing preventing drivers from being written for other operating syste…
APFS isn't proprietary, as Apple's website claims that "Apple plans to document and publish the APFS volume format specification Great. ... anyone else still waiting for the open FaceTime API announced in public on stage by Steve Jobs?
That was six years ago :)
The rumor is that Apple changed its mind due to the VirnetX patent lawsuit, which forced it to switch FaceTime from P2P to relaying all calls through a central server. But who knows if that's the whole story. I'd still like to see an open FaceTime.
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
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There's a lot to not like about Windows's UI, but Explorer is worlds better than Finder, there's absolutely no comparison. Every day I still struggle to remember how to go up a level. Option+Up? Nope that selects the next folder up. Control+Up? No, that made all of my windows do something weird that I don't know what that is. Ah, it's Command+Up. As far as I can tell, there's no non-keyboard way to do it. I can't cli…
> Option+Up? Nope that selects the next folder up. Control+Up? No, that made all of my windows do something weird that I don't know what that is. Ah, it's Command+Up. In macOS, generally: ⌘ Command = App-specific shortcuts. The primary modifier key. ⌃ Control = Global shortcuts. App-specific shortcuts will not generally have Control as the sole modifier. ⌥ Option/Alt = Something to with the keyboard, selection, or se…
Speaking of the nuances of Finder.
In windows, to jump to a file starting with 'docu' one can start typing d o c and explorer will jump the file.
Likewise, it's possible to tap d d d d to navigate between all files starting with 'd'.
Is there a way to do either of these with finder?
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
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How many devices did you break because they did not have a magsafe like functionality? I did not break a single one. Magsafe is a differentiating feature of Apple with little to none daily life saving rationality for existance. Its there to be different not to be better.
Those computers are like $3000. Even if it only saves 10% of MacBooks from an untimely end, it's still $300's worth of insurance.
10% is a really high guess. I would suggest less than 1%.
Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
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> Linux is still as bad as it ever was. It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. I've been using Linux on laptops since Redhat 7 (the first one from 2000) and a Dell Latitude C-series. This is so far removed from my world as a daily Linux user. I put Fedora 25 onto a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition and everything worked perfectly out of the box. The OS looks gorgeus, and I now have the tooling so p…
> I put Fedora 25 onto a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition and everything worked perfectly out of the box You have a 13" 1080p screen correct? Then all text will be absurdly small because Fedora only supports scaling at 1x and 2x but not at 1.5x, which is what that screen size / resolution combination requires for a comfortable DPI. Windows does support 1.5x scaling.
Maybe we have different definitions of 'unreadable'. I'm typing this on an XPS 13 with 1080p screen and 1x scaling (Fedora 25). The text is perfectly readable.