I honestly can't understand why on earth would a sane minded person spend all that money on apple hardware and then on top of that spend a a lot of time fighting a losing fight against the software. Just switch to something else.
There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.
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#12I honestly can't understand why on earth would a sane minded person spend all that money on apple hardware and then on top of that spend a a lot of time fighting a losing fight against the software. Just switch to something else.
There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.
Except for a few very specific workloads and iDevices development, most things can be done on windows or Linux equally well.
In the meantime, have fun with your dumbed down is where you can only run apple-approved things.
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#13I honestly can't understand why on earth would a sane minded person spend all that money on apple hardware and then on top of that spend a a lot of time fighting a losing fight against the software. Just switch to something else.
There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.
Such as?
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#15I honestly can't understand why on earth would a sane minded person spend all that money on apple hardware and then on top of that spend a a lot of time fighting a losing fight against the software. Just switch to something else.
There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.
This is common apple fanatism bs. Except for a few very specific workloads and iDevices development, most things can be done on windows or Linux equally well. In the meantime, have fun with your dumbed down is where you can only run apple-approved things.
Hey now, WRT the topic at hand Windows is no better [0]
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.
This is common apple fanatism bs. Except for a few very specific workloads and iDevices development, most things can be done on windows or Linux equally well. In the meantime, have fun with your dumbed down is where you can only run apple-approved things.
The entire desktop experience on macOS feels WAY more cohesive than windows (which I have used since early 90s), or any of the DE i have tried on linux/bsd (which i have used extensively for over 20 years). Additionally the quality of the hardware (specification/cost aside) far exceeds the alternatives.
I HATE the way that apple are going. Their products are absolutely fantastic, but it is evident that the direction is to lock-down the "computer" as they have done their mobile ecosystem. I hope that legislation and regulation will tear their walled garden (and others!) apart. Then we can get back to bashing peoples OS for being not our own - rather than for being the authoritarian minefield they have become.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Such as?
Literally everything. Like a good trackpad, build quality, stability, ...