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2. Some software I use does not run on Linux (Clip Studio, Adobe CC)
3. MacOS offers some of the benefits I would get from Linux with a more consistent environment, polished software, and better integration with my other devices
4. Linux is too fragmented, everyone seems to disagree and roll their own solution. This was fine when I had fun tinkering with computers, but now I use computers for leisure and work.
The trackpad experience on MacBooks is unbeatable. Another comment here on HN described it as the trackpad completely disappearing from your mind. You don't have to fight it at all. You don't even think about it anymore. The cursor just becomes a natural extension of your hand. Also, as a person working with PDF documents on a regular basis, I don't know of any application that can beat the feature set and UX of Prev…
Like they couldn't have built in a PDF reader/editor?
I am on macOS: Mostly software, to be honest, since I don't like laptops (mac mini is my main driver). Devonthink as my software for archiving, scanning documents and OCR, Alfred as a launcher, Hammerspoon for automation. Other that that - I am programming a lot and spend a lot of time in Emacs, so I would be fine for my personal stuff. But I also assume, that I would spend a lot of time for configuration and I would…
This can be done on Linux too with Gsconnect and KDE connect.
Enjoying my M1 though, and I like the *nixy bits of OSX so it’s an okay compromise.
Switching OS incurs costs. The benefits must outweigh the costs. I'm a great fan of the principles and philosophies of Linux, but if I'm to use it as my daily driver, it has to be above all else a practical solution. There's so much weird shit involved with Linux that the costs outweigh the benefits. Weird shit like, Linux refusing to let me copy files on an external hard drive because "I'm not the owner" of those fi…
Reaper might be the best DAW ("audio editor" in your own words), period. Been used for all sorts, including a Call of Duty score. You don't need to study distros for years. Linux is Linux. Manjaro, Mint, Pop, Ubuntu, pick one, and get on with your work.
Generally unpolished quirkiness that requires time and attention to resolve. For example, in ten years of using Linux at work I've never experienced tear-free browser scrolling despite hours of fussing with X11 and compositor settings or graphics drivers. Or how my default file associations change unbidden all the time, frequently to poor choices like GIMP to open a JPEG. And more recently Internet Explorer through W…
> in ten years of using Linux at work I've never experienced tear-free browser scrolling Sounds like a hardware/driver problem. How is this a fault of Linux? I guess your hardware came with Windows and the vendor never cared about Linux support.
I invariable find myself up with an obscene number of browser tabs open trying to fix various problems ranging from minor to severe that distill to copy+pasting CLI commands.
Most recently, the experience on a tablet I use primarily for writing involved laggy input, no good drawing software, and experimenting with custom kernels.
I'm suspicious the problem is rooted in 2 areas: design-by-committee, and messy dependency webs.
1. Poor battery life
2. No Office (and running a VM brings me back to 1.)
3. No hibernate
4. No full disk encryption
5. Trackpad works better with Windows
6. Too many people working on their own distribution and competing against each other instead of merging resources and solve 20 years long issues. (And I guess I will be lynched for writing this :)
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I was attending my client conference when the invited speaker had his windows machine update right in the middle of his powerpoint presentation ! The whole room had to wait about 15 minutes for windows to finish its "important update". (Of course he probably should have done it before and certainly ignored previous warnings. But it doesn't matter : the whole room of executive was wasting 15 minutes watching the speak…
Exact point, no ads, no stop-working anytime Linux / OsX just rock solid
Windows is the haven of the uninformed. ITT we have the adept comparing update strategies - some arbitrary granny can't work like that. So Windows has to be engineered to maintain itself, even over the wishes of the user. And we've seen what happens if you allow the plebs to skip updating - many of them never update at all.