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Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by citruspi »

tach4n wrote: post #242

I'm convinced there is a real productivity loss due to OSX's limited notifications system. On OSX you get a tiny little bubble in the upper right from your chat program and if you miss it, too bad. I've seen people resorting to shouting or tapping on shoulders because of this. Trying to do something as simple as change the font size was difficult or impossible. On linux I get nice big notifications. If I miss or choo…

> There are fixes no doubt, but this lack of "customizability"

System Preferences -> Notifications -> [Application] -> Style -> 'Alert'

Under that it says

> Banners automatically appear in the upper-right corner and go away automatically. Alerts stay on screen until dismissed.

Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by driven »

It's meaningless to comment on the 'usability' of 'Linux'. That's the only fault I'm finding in what is otherwise quite a good piece of consumer feedback, highlighting the lack of choice given to users throughout the life cycle of proprietary operating systems. A major issue is the necessitation of online accounts and the focus on sharing content, which is still completely irrelevant to many users.

Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by yourad_io »

Svenstaro wrote: post #198
Tamazy wrote: post #76

I was about to quit OS X, because of problems like those : - MacBook Pro fans -> rocket mode - Mail app is not enough sync with my iPhone -> only 1 kind of flag available - I'm working with dropbox, and when I want to use Pages on iCloud, I'm obliged to move my file in the special iCloud directory... so annoying - When I edit some stuff on my Pages app, it's not possible for anybody to read/edit the file online (iClo…

Have you come to accept your Lord and Savior Arch Linux? Seriously though, you are so quick to discard Linux. What's wrong with tinkering a little with the OS to set it up initially? Seems that's that most current professional OS X users are expected to be doing as well. Might as well put that energy into something that doesn't break constantly without you knowing why.

Amen.

I shudder a little when I read about people dismissing Linux because of Unity. You haven't gotten the full Linux tour until you've tried out a few WMs - it is painless, riskless and pretty fun. You'll find something that is close to your needs and then realise that you can actually customise EVERYTHING.

That WM was i3 for me, but my point isn't to spam my personal preference and/or preach: There's so much stuff out there; something will work for you. Make it your own.

Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by crag »

TD-Linux wrote: post #264
crag wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree completely. And believe it or not, I went back to Windows. Sort of. I'm testing the waters. My big issue is iTunes. Yeah I drank the kool-aid and now have an iTunes library of about 100GB. Despite how much I hate what iTunes has become at least is runs on Windows. Also, it's easier to "turn features off" in Windows than OSX these days. I'm sad about it though. But after 14 years on Mac I'm done. It was the up…

Why can't you migrate your music collection away from iTunes? I thought the DRM was killed long ago.

Know a good music player for Windows? And don't tell me Windows Media Player. :)

Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by diymaker »

tach4n wrote: post #242

I'm convinced there is a real productivity loss due to OSX's limited notifications system. On OSX you get a tiny little bubble in the upper right from your chat program and if you miss it, too bad. I've seen people resorting to shouting or tapping on shoulders because of this. Trying to do something as simple as change the font size was difficult or impossible. On linux I get nice big notifications. If I miss or choo…

You can change to notification style to be an "alert" rather than a "banner". Alerts do not go away unless dismissed, so they cannot be missed even if you were afk for 5 minutes. That should solve the missed notifications problem.

Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by morganvachon »

yuhong wrote: post #265
morganvachon wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Desktop Linux is mostly install an work. It is...until it isn't. Nine out of ten Ubuntu or Mint installs will go off without a hitch, with no weird issues or regressions, and a warm, friendly, comfortable development environment welcomes you. Then there's that one time you install it on your laptop so you have a to-go environment that matches your workstation, and BOOM! your wifi isn't recognized (what year is it a…

But ever since Lion was released, I would rather use Windows Vista on a Core Solo machine than OS X on any Mac Huh? And I am not saying that they don't have problems.

Sorry, a bit of hyperbole on my part. I was alluding to the "Vista Capable" days, when machines barely able to run XP were touted by their manufacturers as "Vista Capable", even though they knew very well that the new OS had much higher requirements than XP. Core Solo CPUs were particularly bad at running any Windows OS, and were featured in many of those machines.

My point being, even a kludgy setup like that was more tolerable than OS X 10.7 and up (again, hyperbole, but close enough to the truth in my case).

Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by citruspi »

iwince wrote: post #62
owenwil wrote: post #52

I don't think Yosemite is as bad as people are making out; there have been some odd bugs, but many of them are caused by odd legacy migrations from old laptops or botched upgrades it seems. A fresh install seems to fix many problems experienced by many. Even if OS X Yosemite is buggy, I don't think it's worth the switch to Linux for a desktop machine. It's a step backwards.

I never [bought] a Mac, always looked like a control freak's dream, a step down from even Windows, let alone Linux.

> always looked like a control freak's dream

How so?

Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by MichaelGG »

TheLoneWolfling wrote: post #197
yourad_io wrote: post #166

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The XPS series is no pillar of Linux support. Turn to Thinkpads for this[0]. In case you can't be bothered with the upcoming wall of text: Dell seems to have entirely different definitions of "support" for the paid OS, vs. the free one. I could pick my own hardware for work, and I went with an XPS 13 9333 "Ubuntu edition" + superspeed dock for over 1300 GBP ($2K USD). I shouldn't have sponged on the extra hundred or…

Ditto with coil whine on laptops. (Not same brand.) My laptop is noticeably whiny a large chunk of the time. Seems to predominantly occur when scrolling image-heavy webpages, or graphics demos with no framerate limiters, but happens other times as well.

Coil whine is terrible! I'm unsure how that gets by anyone's QA.

The "fix" is to disable low power CPU states. Yeah, you cut battery life, but at least it doesn't bore into your brain. I'd also suggest if you have onsite warranty to keep asking for replacements. Until laptop reviewers grow spines, it's probably the only way to get an issued noticed.

Edit: If you want to see if that'll help, just get a program to run at full CPU and see if the sound goes away. On several ThinkPads I noticed this (scrolling activates CPU), then saw people mentioning the CPU suspend states. Bingo.

Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by timonovici »

morganvachon wrote: post #202
prapam2 wrote: post #180

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Desktop Linux is mostly install an work. I have not done any tinkering for a long time. But the Yosemite upgrade on laptop brought back my memories of initial Ubuntu distributions. I had disable few setting to get some performance. I had to change few UI setting to get a decent look. It looks a transition phase OS.But ubuntu on that m/c had few touch pad issues otherwise it would have been the default OS for me on th…

> Desktop Linux is mostly install an work. It is...until it isn't. Nine out of ten Ubuntu or Mint installs will go off without a hitch, with no weird issues or regressions, and a warm, friendly, comfortable development environment welcomes you. Then there's that one time you install it on your laptop so you have a to-go environment that matches your workstation, and BOOM! your wifi isn't recognized (what year is it a…

I always wonder where do people get these quirks... And I suspect mostly that's Ubuntu's fault, which is a shitty OS to begin with. It's the only distro I had problems with my graphics card (an Aspire 5050, several years ago), and the audio output.

I've been on archlinux, on testing, for christ sake, and it's been at least a year since I had an issue of any kind.

Debian was also fine by me, but the software was too old on stable; I did have installation issues with it, however, on other peoples laptops.

Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

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Post by [deleted] »

JeremyBanks wrote: post #110
d23 wrote: post #98

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Part of me thinks this is a bit sleazy. He knows how recognizable the name "Wozniak" is, and doubly so if he's going to be running a tech blog and posting about Aplle related things. Would gregwozniak.ca or gwozniak.ca been that much worse? It would be infinitely less confusing and link-baity.

Why would the Woz have a .ca domain? That tipped me off that this might not be him.

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