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Re: Why I moved from Linux to Mac OS X

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Post by stonith » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 11:28 PM UTC

jrussbowman wrote: post #8

I'm also a sysadmin. I tried to switch to Mac mainly for the more polished os expectation. I found I had a less polished experience. I support Linux. I program as a hobby, I found the development experience on Mac frustrating it wasn't as easy to set up an environment similar to my Linux one at work and on my Rackspace servers. I really don't consider the closer to Unix a valid argument. There's tons of operating sys…

I had a similar experience, with the added problem that on linux I was an xmonad user. I Persisted because I found the games I want to play are all available on OSX, which meant instead of dual booting linux + windows I could just stick with one operating system.

Development happens either in a Vagrant VM so that I can replicate the environment my server is running in (usually U12.04), or on a VM somewhere else. This has the added bonus of forcing me to be more explicit about what my minimum dev environment is, and keeping my host OS clean.

Re: Why I moved from Linux to Mac OS X

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Post by pugnusferreus » Mon, Oct 14, 2013, 1:12 AM UTC

I'm a Java developer, do music recording and plays the synthesizer. Unless there's a Linux laptop in the market that can let me do all these without hours of configuration, I'll stick to my Macbook Pro.

I know that Garageband isn't meant to be a professional recording software, but it gives me what I need, and so far, Linux can't meet any of those requirements yet.

Re: Why I moved from Linux to Mac OS X

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 14, 2013, 1:31 AM UTC

jrussbowman wrote: post #8

I'm also a sysadmin. I tried to switch to Mac mainly for the more polished os expectation. I found I had a less polished experience. I support Linux. I program as a hobby, I found the development experience on Mac frustrating it wasn't as easy to set up an environment similar to my Linux one at work and on my Rackspace servers. I really don't consider the closer to Unix a valid argument. There's tons of operating sys…

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Re: Why I moved from Linux to Mac OS X

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Post by Nerdfest » Mon, Oct 14, 2013, 5:16 AM UTC

nwh wrote: post #7

reginaldjcooper wrote: post #5

Why I moved from Linux to Mac OS X (2006): Oh, hey, it's a beautiful Unix laptop and it doesn't need any tweaking for the wi-fi to work. I'll buy this and recommend it to my family also. Why I moved from Mac OS X to Linux (2012): They're obviously pushing for a walled garden experience just like the iPhone, which is reprehensible enough on its own to warrant a boycott against the whole company. The PC users laughing…

> They're obviously pushing for a walled garden experience just like the iPhone, which is reprehensible enough on its own to warrant a boycott against the whole company. There's no evidence they're doing this. For average users there's signed applications, and it's literally a single checkbox to disable them if you don't like it. There's also no requirement for any applications to be signed. > It reduces quite a lot…

The walls are already going up. To use iCloud integration you need to be installed through the OSX app store. Apple wants the control and they want their 30%. Microsoft is trying to do the same thing through Windows 8 and in a very similar way.

Re: Why I moved from Linux to Mac OS X

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Post by Nerdfest » Mon, Oct 14, 2013, 5:18 AM UTC

pugnusferreus wrote: post #12

I'm a Java developer, do music recording and plays the synthesizer. Unless there's a Linux laptop in the market that can let me do all these without hours of configuration, I'll stick to my Macbook Pro. I know that Garageband isn't meant to be a professional recording software, but it gives me what I need, and so far, Linux can't meet any of those requirements yet.

Look at any of the laptops from System76. With gaming looking like it's coming to Linux in a big way, I put my money where my mouth is and bought one. They're fantastic machines.

Re: Why I moved from Linux to Mac OS X

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Post by __--__ » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 3:04 AM UTC

reginaldjcooper wrote: post #5

Why I moved from Linux to Mac OS X (2006): Oh, hey, it's a beautiful Unix laptop and it doesn't need any tweaking for the wi-fi to work. I'll buy this and recommend it to my family also. Why I moved from Mac OS X to Linux (2012): They're obviously pushing for a walled garden experience just like the iPhone, which is reprehensible enough on its own to warrant a boycott against the whole company. The PC users laughing…

I agree entirely and followed a similar path to what you did. I switched from linux to OS X in 2004. I'm looking to switch back, but the linux desktop experience hasn't changed much if at all in the intervening years. Elementary OS gives me hope, but it just mimics the OS X look and feel, but uglier.

What's keeping the linux community from creating a beautiful UI for linux? Is it because UI designers don't get involved in open source projects?