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I made the switch last year and am pretty happy, especially with Ubuntu instead of macOS: https://fman.io/blog/home-and-hotel/
I have this in my startup scripts to get rid of the hissing sound with headphones: #this gets rid of the hissing on XPS 13 amixer -c PCH cset 'name=Headphone Mic Boost Volume' 1
What I'm mostly curious about these posts is, how the heck do you guys switch operating systems that easily? I guess it would work if you are already using Linux or Windows on a Mac hardware but that's gotta be rare. I mean, hardware is nothing compared to the OS.. I can switch to any other Mac and it would take me a couple hours to be comfortable. That would be it. If I'm switching to a Dell XPS, I don't really care…
I'm surprised no one has mentioned keyboard portability. I find it incredibly hard to switch from ctrl on Windows to cmd on Mac. In college I had to switch frequently between Windows and Mac, and it was a nightmare. Since then, I've committed to only use MacOS on a Macbook and Windows on a real keyboard. That seems to preserve my muscle memory the best. But things can be rough when I use a Windows laptop or a standal…
What I'm mostly curious about these posts is, how the heck do you guys switch operating systems that easily? I guess it would work if you are already using Linux or Windows on a Mac hardware but that's gotta be rare. I mean, hardware is nothing compared to the OS.. I can switch to any other Mac and it would take me a couple hours to be comfortable. That would be it. If I'm switching to a Dell XPS, I don't really care…
I'm surprised no one has mentioned keyboard portability. I find it incredibly hard to switch from ctrl on Windows to cmd on Mac. In college I had to switch frequently between Windows and Mac, and it was a nightmare. Since then, I've committed to only use MacOS on a Macbook and Windows on a real keyboard. That seems to preserve my muscle memory the best. But things can be rough when I use a Windows laptop or a standal…
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I use it all the time! Why would you think so?
You asked about the control key. Have you ever used "control-c" or "control-d" from a Unix command line?
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Exactly. I've always bounced between OSes over my career. Switching between them is not that hard at all - just need to mentally page in the key modifiers, shell commands, and other little idioms and pretty quickly I'm running along working. In my experience I've found inflexibility with respect to OS to be a warning sign that usually means someone isn't going to work well long term as a flexible, open-minded team me…
>In my experience I've found inflexibility with respect to OS to be a warning sign that usually means someone isn't going to work well long term as a flexible, open-minded team member. Come on. Someone can be an excellent dev but be made much more efficient by their chosen tools/environment. Come do some public sector work for a while - you'll see what inflexibility really looks like.
You don't use the trackpad on a lenovo. You don't have to! Srsly while i do own now a macbook pro at work and really like the touchpad, i'm a touch quicker with the red knob in combination with AwesomeWM as a window manager. Main advantage: my hands rests on the device and don't have to move below.
I would expect a longtime Lenovo user to know that "the red knob" is not the official unofficial name for that object. :-)
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You asked about the control key. Have you ever used "control-c" or "control-d" from a Unix command line?
Yeah. Of course. And that's what I was referring to. There is no reason for a separate cmd key to exist. Some stuff is switched to cmd (copy, paste, select all) and other stuff stays with ctrl (ctrl+c, ctrl+d). See now I can't even remember how to close a tab in chrome. Is that cmd+w or ctrl+w? All of this is really arbitrary.
The modifiers serve two different purposes: control+something is sent to the remote host, cmd+something is handled by the application.
Good summary, I share most of the points provided in the post. Also, I think a few more things worth to mention. Pros: - XPS has a decent hardware (I got 16GB, i8Gen, 500GB SSD and forgot about having a few docker containers running on the background which was an issue with my MacBook Pro 15 (8GB, 2.5Gh) - It is really 1k$ cheaper than the same config MacBook model. Apple's Retina and Touchbar are really cool, howeve…
> and forgot about having a few docker containers running on the background which was an issue with my MacBook Pro 15 (8GB, 2.5Gh) It's almost as if Docker has to start and run in a VM on non-Linux systems. > however, they still do not have 16GB 13' mac which is a deal breaker. What are you talking about? You've been able to upgrade the memory in a 13 inch MBP to 16GB on purchase since like 2015 at least > Touchscree…
Just as an FYI, that's no longer true for both macOS (xhyve) and Windows (unknown underlying tech, but compiling and running dockerd behaved reasonably with the exception that one could only run Windows docker images). In fact, IIRC, even Docker for Mac uses xhyve, so only docker-machine folks use the VM-based solution
What I'm mostly curious about these posts is, how the heck do you guys switch operating systems that easily? I guess it would work if you are already using Linux or Windows on a Mac hardware but that's gotta be rare. I mean, hardware is nothing compared to the OS.. I can switch to any other Mac and it would take me a couple hours to be comfortable. That would be it. If I'm switching to a Dell XPS, I don't really care…
I'm so glad you mentioned this, I find that when I have to switch back and forth between mac and windows, I struggle with muscle memory switching from ctrl to cmd, and on mac I always struggled to figure out which window is my active window. Such tiny things, but it's one of the things that has kept me on windows (even though I used a mac most of the time for the past two years). Some of my co-workers switch between…
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Yeah. Of course. And that's what I was referring to. There is no reason for a separate cmd key to exist. Some stuff is switched to cmd (copy, paste, select all) and other stuff stays with ctrl (ctrl+c, ctrl+d). See now I can't even remember how to close a tab in chrome. Is that cmd+w or ctrl+w? All of this is really arbitrary.
Yes, but you originally said there was no reason for a control key to exist. The modifiers serve two different purposes: control+something is sent to the remote host, cmd+something is handled by the application.