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Mostly because we have no viable option. Most work places want to have one device for all staff. So the IOS team and the Android team and Marketing and API and JS team, all need one common system. Windows is out for the Rails/Elixir team, and IOS team need Macs. Marketing and Sales teams could live in Windows or Mac's The only Venn diagram match is Mac. Low powered or high powered, Mac is the answer. Honestly... Pack…
The ios being exclusive to MacOS is an Apple made problem though. So you're paying double in hardware cost because of some decision by Apple that no other platform may compile for ios.
Windows and Linux distributions have a much harder task because they have to work on every PC, which means some features are simply missing or don't work because they don't know the exact hardware on which their PC will run, for example hibernation in Linux still doesn't work correctly because every computer works differently.
This attitude is mainstream accepted bullying. This belief in adequacy is always given the benefit of a doubt, we let the doubt & deficiency monster in, & expect nothing from it.
There's only one actual specific complaint- about screen recording, which I've seen be very good iut of the box. The rest is unconfirmable slander, is weakly expressed strongly held biases about how great and awesome macos is & how everything needs to be like that.
The cultural snubbing of Linux is such an undertold story. So many cultural forces tear at this project, & bemoan it. The support & maintenance burden is vast, yet so much does get done. But this winning hearts & minds campaign- no matter how many happy & joyous users their are, of all stripes & varieties, all it takes is a couple posts like this one, & everyone will register inadequacy & insufficiency. Even though many of our lived experiences dont match up to complaints, disbelief reigns.
MacOS is owned by private comapny and hence run like a centralized dictatorship. Whereas Linux is FOSS, so largely decentralized without anyone coordinating the efforts in order to provide a nice, unified experience (Ubuntu is trying to do that, but they don't have nearly enough money).
Apple is a publicly owned company with shareholders.
My personal experience is that it's been like this for years already. I'm mostly using laptops (Dell XPS at the moment) with some Ubuntu-derived distro with KDE Plasma on top, bluetooth peripherals, external monitor, and external USB-connected drives, and it all just... works. Other people are reporting less good experiences, of course, so anecdotes aren't worth too much. I think the real answer is that macOS runs on…
And even then they struggle. macOS has plenty of bugs. It’s nowhere near as stable or reliable as say IOS.
Really don't envy the pressure those devs must be under.
Recently, I wanted to connect multiple VPNs (work, different data centers) and selectively resolve DNS queries / route traffic, but it doesn't seem possible without a lot of work.
I'm not crazy on the app-switcher's behaviour. I'd like to be able to cycle between all windows on all monitors, not "apps", or "windows from one app" or whatever. I need to install 3rd party software for window tiling. (In fairness, Rectangle is perfect). I hate the lack of decent Gnu binaries (but again, homebrew fixes that).
I hate finder. I want to browse to "/Users/raffraffraff/.config" and end up googling to find the arcane key combo to unhide them. Also, why the hell can't I just click on the path and type the path I want?
For years I've been using Xubuntu with plank (dock) at the bottom and an xfce panel at the top. Haven't had a crash in years. All hardware works. If something isn't too my liking I can change it if I wish. That's a feature, not a flaw.
To people commenting how "well if you install Linux the right way on the right hardware like this here purpose-built laptop, it also 'just works'", what the OP is trying to underline isn't just the technical aspect of the OS booting flawlessly and recognizing its periphery, but also the whole experience that comes after. One special part of this, which is easily overseen, is the fact that Apple has poured hundreds of…
One of my personal laptops is a 2015 MacBook Pro, and the camera driver is the only thing I had to manually screw around with. Everything else worked perfectly in every distro I threw at it.
To people commenting how "well if you install Linux the right way on the right hardware like this here purpose-built laptop, it also 'just works'", what the OP is trying to underline isn't just the technical aspect of the OS booting flawlessly and recognizing its periphery, but also the whole experience that comes after. One special part of this, which is easily overseen, is the fact that Apple has poured hundreds of…
Apple has also gone to lengths to make it difficult to run an alternative OS on their hardware. Like the Facetime camera on the 2015+ MacBook. (Fair dues to the person who got that working). One of my personal laptops is a 2015 MacBook Pro, and the camera driver is the only thing I had to manually screw around with. Everything else worked perfectly in every distro I threw at it.
"Everything else [but the webcam] worked perfectly in every distro I threw at it" really doesn't rhyme with "gone to lengths to make it difficult to run an alternative OS on their hardware" in my ears. Surely they could've done plenty more than just booby trap the webcam.