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Post by apayan »

blunte wrote: post #203

It's all very depressing. Like most of us here, I have become increasingly frustrated with the state of Mac (touch bar, bad keyboards, odd choices that fit neither creators nor developers well, and so on). No point rehashing it all. But where does that leave us? I spent a year on Windows 10 not so long ago, on upper end laptop hardware with HiDPI screen, and it was less fun and more problem prone than macOS - especia…

You might want to try the Dell XPS 9380 Developer Edition that comes pre-loaded and configured with Ubuntu 18.04. I switched to it from a 2015 mac laptop I had been using. Set up was pretty easy and everything just worked out of the box. It's also nice that the performance per dollar ratio is better than a new macbook pro.

My only complaint is that the trackpad is a little small for my hands, but the sturdy keyboard with real function keys more than makes up for it.

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Post by MetallicCloud »

ricardobeat wrote: post #268
amanzi wrote: post #176

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I've never seen a bug like that on Windows. Honestly, it feels like a lot of Mac users live in a bubble where Windows is a buggy pile of crap. Meanwhile most Windows users around the world are getting on with life on a stable OS with a great choice of hardware. While nothing's perfect, Windows is in a really good place at the moment.

My brand new PC running Windows 10 will simply not wake up from sleep, requiring a hard restart. A google search turns up thousands of similar complaints (and no solution).

I had the same issue. A bios update was what fixed it for me.

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Post by mark-r »

zanny wrote: post #215
saagarjha wrote: post #171

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I think the issue is that culture at Apple is very much not supposed to be this, and this probably isn’t what the C-suite is intending to push. So you’re not really going against them; rather, you’re going with them but against the current status quo.

If upper management wants culture to change they will take the action necessary to change it. The last people to be powerless to inflict change on a corporation are the executives running said business.

First upper management has to realize there's a problem. Often they're so insulated from the day-to-day operations that they're clueless.

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Post by MisterOctober »

bproven wrote: post #277
MisterOctober wrote: post #214

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I switched from macOS to Linux [Fedora now] about a year and a half ago, out of the same frustrations that affect a lotta folks -- It took a little while to adjust, but since there are a lot of similarities between the Linux and Darwin command lines [and Linux package management being better than homebrew by my lights] , it wasn't very long before I was like "Damn, why didn't I switch 20 years ago!!!" Plus now my har…

I agree. And I just did the opposite. Been using Fedora for a year or so on an X1 Carbon and switched to having to use a new 2019 macbook pro for work. I had fond memories of macs when I last used them 6 years ago but today....wow. Not that great an of an experience. At this point for work (eng, devops/sre etc) I'd rather have Linux and I really wish I could use my carbon X1. :( I see no real adv to dealing with the…

Spot on re : tooling -- likewise, I too gave up on Gnome early on, and also dislike KDE [too heavy] -- a friend turned me on to LXDE and it's been smooth sailing since

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Post by xur17 »

akvadrako wrote: post #279
xur17 wrote: post #244

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I've always specifically selected and researched my hardware before buying. Typically Thinkpads are a good bet - I've used several different generations of The X1 and T series with no problems. I'm currently using an X1 carbon that has great battery life, suspends properly, handles external displays, etc.

I have the latest X1 and almost nobody has a working mic. Also battery life sucks and Bluetoothd always needs a restart after suspends. Ready for the desktop?

I believe mine is a gen 6.

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Post by multibit »

outime wrote: post #17

I can add something to the list which is Sidecar i.e. using an iPad as secondary screen. It was a real nightmare to set it up as it’d not detect the iPad despite meeting all the requirements. I found no fixes online so I had the idea of logout & login again (iCloud) so that it might detect it. Well, it detected I had an iPad but the connection would time out every single time. After rebooting both the Mac and the iPa…

SideCar was the reason I was excited for Catalina. But alas, the feature is not supported on 2015 Retina Macbook Pros, only the newer ones with the horrible keyboard, pointless touchbar, only one kind of port, etc.

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Post by tpmx »

snapples wrote: post #131

Things are so broken here at Apple. I joined about 4 years ago. I am awed by the fact that we manage to release any software at all, let alone functional software. The biggest problem is communication. No one fucking communicates. - No communication between orgs. Tons of bureaucratic tape to cut through just to get a hand on someone working on a different product - Barely any communication between teams. Literally ev…

Over the years I've been surprised a number of times by seeing Apple hire a particular software engineer that I wouldn't hire for my own little company. You're still kinda junior @ 4 years there, but.. have you seen seen any slippage in hiring standards?

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Post by totaldude87 »

I am lucky to have a Mac book pro 2012 ( yeah that one with all ports and stuff). So am perfectly protected from all the hardware issues from then.

What software issues ,oh boy.

at this point I don't even see your point of releasing a new OS every year.look at the windows yes I'm taking that example.

I honestly feel that if you let the developers to do their job, without the stringent yearly cycle they would do an incredible job and Mac will flourish.

Keeping a year-on-year cycle with incremental updates just for the sake of it, is really hurting Apple's image..

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Post by guelo »

snapples wrote: post #131

Things are so broken here at Apple. I joined about 4 years ago. I am awed by the fact that we manage to release any software at all, let alone functional software. The biggest problem is communication. No one fucking communicates. - No communication between orgs. Tons of bureaucratic tape to cut through just to get a hand on someone working on a different product - Barely any communication between teams. Literally ev…

I have a buddy who's an old Apple QA who tells me similar jaw dropping stories about the silos and secrecy. When I marvel how they can possibly ship all those wonderful products he says it's done through grueling brute force manual QA testing. Which also sounds insane but somehow it has mostly worked through the years. But maybe they're reaching the level of complexity where brute force manual testing is not scaling well enough.

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Post by mark-r »

tcmb wrote: post #228
ASlave2Gravity wrote: post #148

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Great read! Thanks for sharing. Highly encourage anyone who is on the fence about reading the whole thing to go for it. Steve, and others like him, do make me wonder. On the one hand, I work four days a week, never stay late at work, and live a good, steady life. But on the other hand, I see these super-stars, these drive-people-to-the-edge, sleep-on-shop-floor types, and see how much change and drive they create, it…

I know what you mean, the appeal of this total dedication. For myself, I've come to the conclusion that I could not do it for long, not as long as I'd have to. I think for those types like Jobs, Musk, it wasn't even a conscious choice they made to put all they had into their work, they are/were just driven. You'd know it if you were, too. They could never have done a four-day work week with zero overtime, it was neve…

Reminds me of an anecdote I heard about starting your own company. It's great, you're the boss. You can work half days if you want. You even get to choose which 12 hours that will be.
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