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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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Post by Aeolun »

donkeyd wrote: post #193
Aeolun wrote: post #111

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> 4. MacBook Pro has 4 USB-C ports. Maybe we should specify it to mean USB ports you can use for something without an adapter.

Things change, deal with it. I've swapped USB cables to USB-C cables. Only USB drives, which i rarely use anymore require an adapter. Meanwhile, I can use all 4 ports to: - Run a display - Charge my laptop - Charge a phone - Connect a drive I can even use a single port to both charge the laptop and run a screen with multiple USB devices attached to it. I now need to daisy chain converters to use my PS/2 mouse on my M…

I mean, that’s fantastic for you, but not everyone has the money to just upgrade all of their equipment the moment a port changes, so we’re forced to buy $100 adapters for everything.

It’d be fun if at least the iPhone was chargeable with usb-c, but even that requires an adapter.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by terinjokes »

Corrado wrote: post #596
rickyc091 wrote: post #218

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I constantly still have problems with my Dell 4k monitor (first gen and last year's model), where it doesn't wake properly from sleep. Most of the time, I resolve it with the following. - Switch the USB-C port from one to another - Open up my laptop from clamshell mode and switch the cables around - Unplug my monitor - Restart my computer The nuclear option of rebooting my computer and monitor always seems to work.

I have this exact same problem - 2018 MBP, Dell U3415W. Sometimes it works, sometimes I can move the mouse enough to get it to work, sometimes the monitor won't wake up at all, sometimes the monitor wakes up and has a VGA screen resolution. I thought I had "fixed" it by turning off sleep mode in the MBP, but after a couple of days of working properly it started failing to wake up again. I know its a problem with the…

I own a Dell P2715Q 4K monitor and was having similar issues across operating systems. My understanding is Dell silently fixed this in firmware on new units, but provides no way of updating the firmware in the field.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by a1369209993 »

hayleox wrote: post #493
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…

> * modifying keyboard shortcuts is extremely difficult; I really wish linux had a karabiner equivalent Lol, different strokes for different folks. Having to use Karabiner instead of the much more versatile tools on Linux really peeved me when I switched over a few years ago. I like to rebind my caps lock to function as an extra modifier key. On Linux, you just set it to Hyper; ezpz. On Mac, you just straight up can'…

This pretty much sums up both why I switched from Windows to Linux and why I'll never buy anything Apple is pushing. On Linux, the easy stuff is annoying and the hard-but-necessary stuff is even more annoying; on Windows and Mac, the easy stuff is easy and the hard-but-necessary stuff is impossible.

Edit: Well, that and also because, if my OS is going to randomly break whenever some idiot pushes a "update", it might as well be one I don't pay money for, and one that only updates when I tell it to.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by bschwindHN »

deergomoo wrote: post #494
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…

I wanted to find out the proper way to disable middle-click paste because all the solutions I could find involved basically disabling the button all together, but I still wanted to use it for closing tabs etc. There doesn’t seem to be a way to do it. One high rated StackOverflow answer I found suggested purchasing a mouse with a less sensitive mouse wheel.

This was one of my biggest grievances with desktop Linux. Not driver support or a lack of applications or ugly interfaces, but the fucking middle click to paste enabled by default!

It just shows such poor taste for defaults, especially when tap-to-click is enabled. Text gets randomly inserted everywhere. On Manjaro this causes sticky notes to be created everywhere on the desktop. It's insane that someone gave it the thumbs up.

And the stackoverflow solutions all just disable the middle click altogether like you said.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by a1369209993 »

derefr wrote: post #360
Spooky23 wrote: post #296

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You’re always fighting upstream that way. Even at a massive enterprise with a 9 figure account relationship with Microsoft, they just won’t fix issues after a few weeks of release. The product groups will rope a dope you until you hit some product cycle milestone and then tell you to fuck off. The company has laid off or reallocated everyone and moved them to Azure. It’s Windows latest or bust. Since Apple is a shits…

I mean, the GP and most people who hear "fighting the Windows update cycle" assume you mean "fighting against being forced to interrupt your work and reboot to update" (the constant complain among Windows users) rather than something about intentionally avoiding new versions of the OS. If you were an OS company and it were possible to force everyone to be running on master (and thereby not have any security vulnerabi…

> and thereby not have any security vulnerabilities

That's not what running on master means. It means that all of your (many) security vulnerabilities are ones you don't know about[1] and random things keep breaking for no reason (and when you report them, it breaks in a way that's just different enough to let your bug report be closed as FIXED).

1: except (if you pay attention) the ones the developer advertises as 'features', like ssh with a default password of "password" baked into the kernel for "inventory management".

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by _coveredInBees »

WorldMaker wrote: post #623
_coveredInBees wrote: post #474

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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'…

Ha! Nice. Not sure why it's hidden away under the File tab, but that is pretty handy. Thanks.

edit - Apparently you can add it to your quick-access toolbar as well, in which case it saves you one key-press with keyboard shortcuts :-) Alt +

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by kerkeslager »

esotericn wrote: post #560
drclau wrote: post #495

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You assume that everyone wants to modify everything (or the unmodifiable, as you put it). After going through many years of FreeBSD and Linux, I now just want things to work. Mac gives me that. Should have switched sooner.

It works for you, yes. This entire page and thread of comments exists because for someone it didn't.

I see very little evidence of that.

I suspect what you mean when you say "it didn't work" is actually, "they didn't like it", which is actually not the same thing. I see a lot of people saying they didn't like things on Macs, not a lot of people saying things didn't work on Macs.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by hnick »

newscracker wrote: post #353
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 negative is changing preferences... Windows is so poorly designed that I still wonder why there's Settings as well as Control Panel offering mostly the same settings, and old settings dialogs from Windows XP or Windows 2000 are still around!

Yes it's becoming a bit of a mess.

I wanted to associate a file type with a program in Windows 10 recently, and I found at least 4 different menu items that lead to the same unhelpful modern screen. Unhelpful because it only let me pick 'App Store' Apps, not anything else I have installed. Some answers online suggested these very item as ways to go to the old screen but it looks like they closed that escape hatch.

I was having trouble because it was a 'special' file type (CMD) so the context menu didn't offer the Open With option, I suppose to save this clueless user from himself. So instead I dove into the registry and did a manual hack which will hopefully stick around between updates.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by rochak »

lzol wrote: post #217
proverbialbunny wrote: post #85

I've been on MacOS since 5 (mac classic). I went to Win 2000 and XP for a while but came back at 10.3. On average every 2 years I'd pick up a few distros of Linux, play with it, then drop it and go back to OS X. This continued until recently. This last year I've been on Linux for the first time. Specifically, Linux Mint. OS X hasn't been going in a direction I strongly care for (10.6 was my favorite, as well as Windo…

Mint is such a wonderful distro for people who want to use Linux but don't want to mess with things. I'm glad you've been enjoying it so far. Canonical really dropped the ball with how great a no-config, no-bullshit distro can be. Ubuntu felt like it was on this path 10 years ago before they started adding all the unnecessary bullshit. I'm glad Mint is the fork that picked up the slack.

I agree. Mint has been my daily driver ever since Ubuntu dropped the ball.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by hnick »

bluedino wrote: post #361
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…

Windows is doing a good job of ruining file management/Explorer in Window 10 I've never had Explorer crash so damn much. Another of my least-favorite features is how they group your files by recently used now. Ugh. Then you have Quick Access, Recently Used, 'Places'....

Yeah I hate that file grouping feature in my Downloads folder.

Windows 10 overall is very stable but just a few days ago I did have Explorer crash in a new and interesting way like you say.

It went away and didn't come back as it usually does, so I started a new instance from the task manager. This instance seemed to be missing some kind of callback hook so when files in the directory changed it wouldn't update the display. So I would delete or paste a file, or make a new folder, and have to hit F5 to see it. If I didn't refresh then it also seemed to forget what folder it was in and paste into the wrong one, sometimes multiple times with one keypress.

It was very weird, but luckily Windows knows best and rebooted itself for an update when I went to sleep.

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