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I'll add some to the list: - Control external monitor sound volume. There are buggy paid and open source solutions, but they all trigger all kind of bugs with sound and macOS itself. - Capture game audio with OBS together with microphone input. - Being able to wait for files to copy and work Finder at the same time. Yeah I could find replacement for Finder, but why the hell? - Use Valve Proton. Yeah, Linux is great t…
You forgot "spend three days trying to get a Bluetooth keyboard to pair at boot every time". :-D I love Ubuntu and I use it with Cinnamon desktop on the daily alongside my Mac, and I love the customizability, but I also like just being able to turn on my laptop and do stuff without having to fiddle with a terminal unless I want to, or install a new app by just downloading a thing and clicking on it and agreeing that,…
Things I can do on MacOS which I can't on Ubuntu: Run Logic X and all the AU's.
There's always going to be software that supports some platforms but not others. For example, in the EDA world it's very common to have Linux/Windows support but not macOS support (eg.: Intel Quartus, Xilinx Vivado, Cadence Virtuoso and others, Mentor Graphics Calibre and others, ...).
They're important to me, moreso than what's in the OP's list.
My biggest bug bears with macOS: - No way to fullscreen a window without moving it into a separate workspace. All a new workspace achieves is making it difficult for me to switch between this app and my other apps! (individual apps can implement this, and some like VLC do, but most apps don't) - No native support for containerisation. Containers/Docker are a great technology, but even on my M1 mac where literally eve…
Either you're using Docker for Mac which itself is slow on IO mostly due to the macos-linux file share syncing every single fseventsdinotify or you end up running intel images on aarch64, which uses non-virtualizing qemu to emulate the foreign CPU (see github.com/tonistigii/binfmt)
I'm using Docker in a Fusion instance, sharing /Users through vmhgfs (which in my tests performs better than DfM shares) and it's plenty fast as long as I stick to native images (intel on intel, aarch64 on arm64) and don't outrageously reach out to the shared dirs (notably DfM shares /tmp by default which is ridiculous)
Container tech on Darwin would bring little in most cases since it would containerize a darwin userland, which, while cool, is probably not what most people want. There's no shortcut from running a Linux kernel in a VM to run a Linux userland on Darwin.
- Debug apps which don't opt into debugging, using gdb/lldb, without disabling SIP. It's my computer, I should be root, I should be able to introspect how processes execute on it. Not being able to do so prevented me from debugging https://github.com/samschott/maestral/issues/597 , since I had to disable SIP, which required rebooting, which stopped the bug from happening. - Edit $PATH for IDEs launched from the Mac G…
Another option is to re-sign the application with the entitlements necessary for debugging.
e.g:
https://gist.github.com/talaviram/1f21e141a137744c89e81b58f7...
I totally get why you would want these features. But why not just use Ubuntu if you want them? No OS should try to emulate everything that other Operating Systems do well. You can‘t make a highly opinionated OS like macOS highly customizable without compromising the initial vision. The same is true the other way around. MacOS allows for a surprising customizability through third-party apps and I personally think this…
> I totally get why you would want these features. But why not just use Ubuntu if you want them? Because, as I say in the post, I have to use one for work. I agree that diversity is good but there are some things - like basic accessibility - which should be non-negotiable. And they certainly shouldn't be paid-for addons.
There are a lot of legitimate reasons to criticise Apple, but I disagree that lack of accessibility options is one of them. They natively support tons of accessibility features, and as far as I’m aware people with disabilities often choose Apple products precisely because they excel at it.
I like this post. For the first time someone actually provided a list of things and more so jumped right into them! Most of the apple posts go into a long philosophy rant about walled gardens and other bs. Glad to see a legit list and they have a legit point.
The one that bugs me the most is the fact you can't disable the transition delay of 300ms when switching workspaces. Such a basic thing, but the number one reason I won't buy a Mac today.
There’s an option for this under System Prefs > Accessibility > Reduce Motion
Try the other way around. Much longer list, I guarantee you.
Go on then, you start
- Cannot run a bunch of programs that stay on the topbar, like LINE (https://line.me/en/), Kap (https://getkap.co/), etc. I am a fairly heavy user of Kap and I love the interface, so this is probably the biggest differentiator for me. I can use Gimp, Inkscape, etc. on Mac so this is not really reversible.
- The visual quality of the programs in Mac is generally a lot higher, and humans do like aesthetic visuals. For example the "CPU indicator" (iStat) I have in mac is an order of magnitude better, same as VPN tool, etc.
- Upgrading the OS to a major version without worrying if I'll be able to boot next time.
- (unfair?) 10+ hours of real-world battery usage, in Linux I could often get half of the advertised 5-6h battery life from the PCs if lucky
- A lot more hardware stuff with the M1 Macbook Air, like the amazing touchpad, keyboard (in new models), etc. Some will say it's fair to compare them some won't, so I'll leave that up to you but summarize them all in this point. I want to try Asahi Linux when it comes out stable though!
- Drivers all work very well, it's like they built them on purpose for their hardware (!). No more fighting with pulseaudio.
However overall I've found them to be a lot more similar than dissimilar to my surprise, swapping from one to another as a normal everyday JS dev is fairly trivial. To add on the author's list, the biggest issue I have is with external USBs, I like having them encrypted for backups and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do that with mac. I had no trouble with AndroidUSB, just install it and it behaves just like another filesystem program.