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Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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dkonofalski wrote: post #423
ufmace wrote: post #411

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Apple seems to love doing this too. It's just great when it decides to update iMovie and iTunes, huge apps which I have never used, when your battery is at 30% and you're on a terrible WiFi connection. It's hard to tell that the update is in progress at all, and seemingly impossible to stop. Took me a while to figure out how to remove the apps I never intend to use and disable auto-updates for the ones I do use. It c…

>Took me a while to figure out how to remove the apps I never intend to use It took you a while to figure out how to drag an app to the trash in the same way that deleting any other file works? =/

And not to mention that you can't even remove some applications

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by ahartmetz »

oriolid wrote: post #496
helpPeople wrote: post #455

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Windows is inferior to MacOS? Bold claim given Enterprise exclusively uses Windows. Your opinion might tarnish your reputation

Enterprise is also the inspiration behind Dilbert. I agree that Windows is nowhere as bad as it was in the 90s and early 2000s and OS X isn't as good as it was in 2014, but software development on Windows is still slightly painful.

Windows 2000 was actually pretty nice, it was my favorite Windows. It was an already quite refined member of the NT series and also the last no-nonsense NT. XP felt garish and annoying, even though the actual technology improved overall, especially with the service packs.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by WorldMaker »

_coveredInBees wrote: post #474
puranjay wrote: post #322

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I use both Windows and Mac. I find Windows file management and window management to be much better. Love the preview you get when you hover over an app icon in the taskbar. Also love how windows don't automatically take up the entire screen. I like to have two windows open simultaneously. This is much smoother on Windows than Mac. I also prefer Windows' taskbar instead of Mac's dock. The negative is changing preferen…

I feel exactly the same way as you. It boggles my mind that Finder is the best OSX has to offer for file management after all these decades. I find windows explorer to be far superior and more intuitive in almost all cases. What really boggles my mind is how difficult it is to simply get a text string for the current path in Finder - https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/252171/mac-finder-... I absolutely love th…

> (Pro-tip, type cmd in this navbar and hit enter and a DOS prompt opens in the specific folder you are in)

Your system default shell (shared with Win+X menu, defaults to PowerShell for the last few Windows releases but you can switch it back to CMD) is also directly on the File menu in the modern ribbon and opens in the current path. (Alt+F,R is the keyboard shortcut I see, with PowerShell as my system default.) It's a little bit faster than the use the path box as a launcher trick (though use the path box as a launcher is an older trick that predates the modern ribbon).

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by ahartmetz »

linguae wrote: post #439
nkoren wrote: post #190

Meh. I bailed out of the Mac ecosystem last year, as my mid-2012 retina Macbook was finally getting too creaky, and the latest Mac hardware was a regression in many respects, while simultaneously utterly unaffordable. I'm now dual-booting Ubuntu/Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 15". What this experience has taught me is that computing in 2019 basically sucks. The problems with 2000-era Linux, as described in the article, are…

I wholeheartedly agree. The state of personal computing in 2019 is one of uncomfortable compromises. I'm still using my Macs; I have a 2013 Mac Pro that I regularly use at home, a 2013 MacBook Air that I also regularly use whenever I'm not at home, and a work-issued 2018 MacBook Pro that I use all the time. I believe that the macOS experience and value proposition has regressed from what it was earlier this decade. I…

Regarding fit and finish, I recommend that you just try to get over it. It is really not a big deal if both kinds of file dialogs work fine and both widget styles are mostly flat grey (etc, you get the idea). In other parts of life, similar things are also "needlessly different" and you can also use them just fine. You kind of need a dictator to make everything the same, with parallels to computing...

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by neop1x »

msbarnett wrote: post #520
esotericn wrote: post #291

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Gnome (3) is just a bit crap. It's the Windows DE of the GNU/Linux world. It's explicitly designed to be boring and not very customizable so that delicate users don't get scared. I use i3 and basically everything is configured via text files. Keyboard shortcuts are trivial etc. You don't need Karabiner to "rebind" because you can directly bind. You don't need to go scary tiling WM, Xfce probably works well, it's been…

> I use i3 and basically everything is configured via text files. Keyboard shortcuts are trivial etc. You don't need Karabiner to "rebind" because you can directly bind. This is the kind of hyperbole that Linux advocates like to throw around a lot, and it’s unfortunate, because it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what people are asking for when they say things like “I wish there was a decent replacement for Ka…

If you want the latest software, install Arch Linux not Ubuntu/Debian.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by WorldMaker »

kec wrote: post #348
puranjay wrote: post #322

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I use both Windows and Mac. I find Windows file management and window management to be much better. Love the preview you get when you hover over an app icon in the taskbar. Also love how windows don't automatically take up the entire screen. I like to have two windows open simultaneously. This is much smoother on Windows than Mac. I also prefer Windows' taskbar instead of Mac's dock. The negative is changing preferen…

> The two systems seem to be built for different things. Mac prioritizes single application, focus based work. Windows is better when you're multitasking Well, Mac has multiple desktops to manage multitasking, and in Catalina the zoom button does have an option to tile windows left or right. There are also apps you can get (I like divvy) which really open up advanced window management options.

Windows 10 has had multiple desktop support since it launched. It's at the top of the Expose-like "Task View" screen, which further doubles as the Windows Timeline screen in more recent versions of Windows 10 (with the keyboard shortcut Win+Tab, and an icon by default on the Taskbar).

The "Aero Snap" window management tools built in to Windows (for horizontal halves since Vista, and quartiles since 10) are pretty powerful. The recently rebooted Microsoft PowerToys includes an app directly similar to divvy called Fancy Zones: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/tree/master/src/modul...

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by mod50ack »

xioxox wrote: post #499
vocatus_gate wrote: post #465

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Just my personal anecdote, I run Mint 19.2 x64 on my X1 Carbon and love it, no issues beyond some initial fiddling to get my hotkeys set up the way I like.

Me too - I run KDE on Ubuntu on a Carbon X1 6th gen - it's great. The only annoying bug are horizontal lines in the terminal from the high DPI scaling.

I believe they just fixed this bug.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by neop1x »

catalogia wrote: post #534
llimllib wrote: post #240

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I was linux-only from 2002 to about 2009, on laptops, when I switched to Mac. I just set up a linux desktop for kicks the last couple of weeks, and it doesn't seem to me to be any better than it was a decade ago. * No way to adjust mouse scroll speed; official answer seems to be "don't want that". (Or install imwheel and change your mouse scroll to be equal to hitting the down button (!) which breaks other stuff) * T…

The GNOME project has gone very far astray. Their UX "experts" are self-appointed tyrants who want to control how you use the computer and seem to get sick kicks out of telling users that they're wrong whenever users want do something even slightly different. "You THINK you want to change your mouse speed but actually you're an idiot and you're wrong" is a classic example of this. GNOME is more of a problem than linu…

I switched to KDE on Arch Linux two years ago and I am happy since. Even KDE Connect works there (android notification sync).

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by jvinet »

zenhack wrote: post #330
IggleSniggle wrote: post #219

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Here’s my fix: “Oh, please. People don’t _actually use_ macs while drinking their lattes anymore (except maybe ironically). Lenovo (running Windows with the Linux Subsystem enabled) is the only halfway decent way to get work done. Unless of course you’re one of those hipsters running Arch. I’ve been meaning to try that, actually.” -actual 2019 computing hipster, probably

Wait, is Arch back to being a hipster thing? I thought we'd graduated to well-known distro. I've been using Arch since '06, back when Judd was still in charge and the repos were divided up in terms of "stuff Judd maintains" and "stuff other devs maintain." It was this small community project that nobody had really heard about, and I got so used to it just not being a thing that when (sometime in the range of '10 - '1…

Ah, those were the days.
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