Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak • Hacker News Board

I find that OS X (even 10.10) is perfectly usable after applying many of the famous dotfile hacks by mathias bynens: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

These restore my sanity :)

Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 04, 2015, 3:18 AM UTC

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Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by mountainhacker » Sun, Jan 04, 2015, 3:19 AM UTC

mattkrea wrote: post #46

geerlingguy wrote: post #24

FYI this was not posted by 'the Woz', but rather by the unrelated Geoff Wozniak. I imagine many others may have clicked through owing to the domain.

Thanks for pointing this out. I had no clue.

Yes, I didn't either.

Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by ehack1971 » Sun, Jan 04, 2015, 3:19 AM UTC

This should be deleted from Hacker News,complete waste of our time. Linux or OS X is a preference and based on needs and personal preference. Who cares about this person on why they left OS X. Idiots.

Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by jqm » Sun, Jan 04, 2015, 3:19 AM UTC

Admittedly I've never used OS X and have been a Linux user for years (so I may have picked up some things along the way that seem like second nature now), but I've not had any troubles that so many talk about. i3 and KDE do everything I need wonderfully.

How much better are Firefox and Thunderbird on OS X? And media players and terminals? Because other than a calculator or an occasional spreadsheet, those are about the only native applications I ever use.

I am a thrifty guy, so almost never buy new laptops but used Thinkpads that are a few years old... this might explain why I don't usually have any driver problems.

I just can't figure out, for what I do, how OS X would be any better? Maybe one of these years I'll get off my wallet and find out what all the fuss is about. Or maybe not.