Using macOS is for a certain kind of experience. it's like fast food, they want basically every use to have the same experience indeterminate of skill level. also, cyberduck is pretty amazing for ftp/sshfs and so on.
Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
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Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#642I switched from Linux Mint desktop to an M1 Air last year. Performance-wise, the M1 is very impressive, probably feels about 80% as fast as my 6 year old desktop (that sounds like snark, but it isn't). Meanwhile, the battery life is insane (I've never brought the charger anywhere but my desk, and will often use it for a week out and about). I opted for the Magic Keyboard and Magic Touchpad, because I had a lot of tro…
>Also, the fact that everything I want to tweak requires buying an app? I find this is often the case with MacOS, sometimes with open alternatives available. I wanted windows/linux like window snapping and found a free solution called Rectangle[0], but discovered however they do it was causing mouse lag in games. Apple dev friend investigated into it with logs from my machine and discovered they are "just not doing i…
What about security, when installing "countless" of apps for minor things
Do you trust Apple's app review
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#643Earlier quoted context omitted.
My personal laptop is a mac os, and agree with some of the criticism. However, stability-wise, it has been rock-solid. I also manage my own Ubuntu desktop for work, and had to reinstall the system 3 times from scratch because it magically stopped working. In the end it turned out to be something with a new kernel, but it took me, dunno, 2 days to debug.
I don't know what I have to do to get the sublime desktop experience that macOS is famous for... My work-issued Macbook Pro regularly forgets which monitor (my external monitor or the built-in display) is the primary monitor and moves the dock and task bar between them seemingly at random. My mouse sensitivity is cranked all the way up but my mouse still feels like it's mired in tar compared to my Windows and Linux m…
> but my mouse still feels like it's mired in tar
I think you need to increase the tracking speed in "Mouse" preferences. Mine is about 75% and I can move across a 1440px screen with just a small flick.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#644I switched from Linux Mint desktop to an M1 Air last year. Performance-wise, the M1 is very impressive, probably feels about 80% as fast as my 6 year old desktop (that sounds like snark, but it isn't). Meanwhile, the battery life is insane (I've never brought the charger anywhere but my desk, and will often use it for a week out and about). I opted for the Magic Keyboard and Magic Touchpad, because I had a lot of tro…
> Also, the fact that everything I want to tweak requires buying an app? I had to pay for an app in order to properly emulate middle clicks on the touchpad! That's bonkers! Yes I have noticed this too! I love my MacBook, but the idea that I would pay what, $20, for the top tier window snapping app is completely ridiculous. That’s something that should be built in to the shell!
But Apple gets a 30% cut of the money you spend on the extra apps?
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#645I switched from Linux to MacOS around 14 years ago. With Linux it's not only that I could change everything (system font, acceleration of the mouse pointer etc), but I literally HAD to do it. First days after buying new laptop and installing Linux I had to spend of configuring everything – from mouse pointers to Google calendar integration, often with obscure command line or config setups. That was fun. Until I bough…
The last 14 years have seen a lot of changes to linux desktops and window managers. There are several high quality options that require very little to no configuration to have a pleasant experience. Hardware wise, things are a bit mixed. I'm writing this from an LG gram that runs perfectly out of the box- screen, wifi, sleep, everything Just Works. The battery life is fantastic. The only real configuration that I've…
I've used Linux for 20+ years. I have to give it to Linux Mint, it's almost there, like 95% there. The remaining 5% is painful, but ignorable enough.
Desktop linux has come a long way since the Corel or Mandrake Linux days.
I use it in my PC nowadays and it's ok. I think the current iteration of the nonworking hardware (before it was soundcard/winmodem/bluetooth/graphics) are Laptop technologies like multi monitor with right resolution or fingerprint scanning.
Linux has always had problems with hardware though (not your fault, but still your problem).
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#646> Read MTP devices > Mount an SSH or NFS drive I know fanboy debates are tiresome, but... I really do struggle to comprehend taking a device that can't do these things seriously as a computer. As a toy yes, or as a specialised tool for video or audio rendering, which... fair enough. But moving bytes is something any general purpose computing device should be good at. It's almost something you have to actively design…
Use 'nc' provided by OSX and linux. Fully compatible. There, you can easily move bytes between computers
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#647Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#648Earlier quoted context omitted.
The main reason I switched over to a windows box (after WSL2 was released) was because I hate dealing with obtuse hardware and driver issues. I am a software engineer, but I work in user space and have zero interest in managing hardware issues. When I plug in a device to a Mac or Windows box it just works 95% of the time or more. I never have to touch textual config files, I never have to adjust DNS settings and rout…
> When I plug in a device to a Mac or Windows box it just works 95% of the time or more. I quit using Macs a long time ago because I find I have to spend way too much time configuring them and adapting to the workflow, but between Windows and Linux I find devices work pretty much the same. If anything Linux has a better success rate, things "just work." On Windows it seems like every single time I plug in a mouse Win…
I think that rings true to my experience. It does _not_ ring true to my experience with audio peripherals in particular or with networking concerns.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#649How about, turn off the icloud and telemetry daemons I don't want?! Can't be done, boot volume is read-only!
Little snitch is a thing thankfully, but it is still nagging me for $49 dollars and will probably have to give them my PII to pay for it.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#650I switched from Linux Mint desktop to an M1 Air last year. Performance-wise, the M1 is very impressive, probably feels about 80% as fast as my 6 year old desktop (that sounds like snark, but it isn't). Meanwhile, the battery life is insane (I've never brought the charger anywhere but my desk, and will often use it for a week out and about). I opted for the Magic Keyboard and Magic Touchpad, because I had a lot of tro…
>Also, the fact that everything I want to tweak requires buying an app? I find this is often the case with MacOS, sometimes with open alternatives available. I wanted windows/linux like window snapping and found a free solution called Rectangle[0], but discovered however they do it was causing mouse lag in games. Apple dev friend investigated into it with logs from my machine and discovered they are "just not doing i…
>Also, the fact that everything I want to tweak requires buying an app?
Like three finger (middle click) on the touchpad ... Apple just can't do it ... Linux sorted it for multiple manufacture's touchpads years ago.