If Mac are so expensive why are hackintoshes still out of favor ?
Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
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Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#12I honestly cannot believe that a person that uses both Windows and Mac frequently in 2022 would choose Mac if they had to choose a single platform. Not even a developer. MacOS is a masterclass in bad design and lackluster features. I always considered buying a Mac but was always hesitant to change. Once I got one for work I swore to never ever spend a dime on a Mac. People that will disagree haven't used Windows in y…
Based on this one comment, I think you should learn to disambiguate between facts and your subjective opinion. We all have our preferences, obviously, but to assert that MacOS UI is 'a masterclass in bad design and lackluster features' is a grandiose exaggeration stated as fact.
I recently switched to macos because I wanted a new laptop and the m1 seemed best in class. Some UI issues I’ve noticed:
1) It’s very annoying that, in a full screen window, moving your mouse to the top of the screen causes the window to rescale. When reading a book in chrome, realizing the window causes the text to reflow to every time I accidentally move the mouse too far up (when trying to rearrange tabs, for example) all my text jumps around
2) when unzipping a file on the desktop by double clicking it, the unzipped folder appears right behind the zip file and I have to precisely drag it elsewhere. This happens even when i have snap to grid turned on (the new folder ignores the grid)
3) When an app is hanging, I want to click the apple icon in the menu bar to open the force-quit tool. But the menu bar hangs when the focused app does! So I have to switch to a different app just to force-quit the hanging one.
4) If you want to see all possible resolutions of an external monitor, clicking the “Scaled” checkbox in the display settings window won’t do it. Instead you have to option-click the checkbox. How’s that for discoverable?
5) Whyyyy do my virtual desktops rearrange themselves randomly???
6) Dragging a .app from ~/Applications to the trash can doesn’t remove any folders the app has created in ~/Libraries
7) Finder is just terrible compared to windows explorer. Oh how i miss having an editable path bar to make it easy to copy/paste a path! By default you can’t even see the current path and basic functionally like “go up” is missing
8) The default terminal sucks. The windows one does too but at least windows has the microsoft terminal in the windows store.
9) Try dragging an app from launchpad into an app folder. it’s impossible.
10) Yesterday I tried to do an os update. A pop-up appeared saying “you don’t have enough disk space to install the update”. I clicked “ok” and then my computer restarted and installed the update anyway. ????
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#13I honestly cannot believe that a person that uses both Windows and Mac frequently in 2022 would choose Mac if they had to choose a single platform. Not even a developer. MacOS is a masterclass in bad design and lackluster features. I always considered buying a Mac but was always hesitant to change. Once I got one for work I swore to never ever spend a dime on a Mac. People that will disagree haven't used Windows in y…
If millions of professionals are doing a thing a certain way, either they're all wrong and crazy or there's something I'm missing. It's a Chesterton's Fence situation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence
It's not. The reasoning behind the popularity of MacOS is very well understood: marketing.
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#14If Mac are so expensive why are hackintoshes still out of favor ?
I think nowadays they are close to impossible to put together and the article is directed towards the general public.
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
One mans lackluster features is another mans streamlined interface. MacOS at least goes out of your way most of the time. Windows interrupts you regularly for stuff that's not important to whatever you're doing. Combined with third-party applications that are noisy as heck to make sure you don't forget you bought/installed them (especially AV scanners, but it seems like every app wants a place in your system tray and…
not like my opinion matters much, but I feel that Apple's stuff was great in year 2010. not so much nowadays. I don't know what would be a reason to favor macOS over Linux
When it it runs, Linux is great, but when something breaks fixing it can be labor intensive. When something on Mac stops working a call to Mac support will usually fix it in a couple of hours.
That said, I agree with your 2010 estimate of Mac software peaking in 2010. Mac laptop hardware is still better than Linux laptop hardware. As someone who's considering my first Linux laptop, I need to balance the inconveniences of Linux hardware now with the likely fact I can probably use that laptop significantly longer than current Mac. Somebody has to pay for all those convenient Mac support folks.
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on this one comment, I think you should learn to disambiguate between facts and your subjective opinion. We all have our preferences, obviously, but to assert that MacOS UI is 'a masterclass in bad design and lackluster features' is a grandiose exaggeration stated as fact.
I recently switched to macos because I wanted a new laptop and the m1 seemed best in class. Some UI issues I’ve noticed: 1) It’s very annoying that, in a full screen window, moving your mouse to the top of the screen causes the window to rescale. When reading a book in chrome, realizing the window causes the text to reflow to every time I accidentally move the mouse too far up (when trying to rearrange tabs, for exam…
> 5) Whyyyy do my virtual desktops rearrange themselves randomly???
For this, believe it or not, it's actually a FEATURE. If this again doesn't prove my point I don't know what does.
The good news is that you can disable it: https://www.appsntips.com/learn/how-to-stop-mac-spaces-from-...
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#17> It is a truth universally acknowledged that all operating systems suck.
This could be engraved in stone.
I know the title isn't really serious, but not being able to afford a Mac is not a good reason to use Linux. Use what you want/need/feel comfortable in, otherwise the experience will be miserable.
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
If millions of professionals are doing a thing a certain way, either they're all wrong and crazy or there's something I'm missing. It's a Chesterton's Fence situation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence
It's not. The reasoning behind the popularity of MacOS is very well understood: marketing.
If it were marketing, then I could leave MacOS for Windows or Linux. I cannot (without making my work harder for no net gain).
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#19Ubuntu shouldn't be recommended anymore. Flatpak won. Snap is a disaster. If you ask me, Fedora is the new Ubuntu.
As much as I dislike the direction Ubuntu has been going, the one thing still keeping me on it is the font rendering. I've tried all sorts of font configs and even Ubuntu patches to various packages but never managed to achieve the same result.
Font rendering has improved in other distros in recent years, but at least to my eyes Ubuntu still somehow does it better.
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#20Macbook air is like $1000. People can afford it. Problem is shitty hardware. SSD soldered to motherboard, bad cooling, no touchscreen, broken keyboard, no way to replace battery...