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I know the feeling. I'm forced to use a Mac laptop for work, and it's really made me appreciate Linux.
Agreed. The hardware is excellent, but the customizability, and overall snappiness of the UI are far inferior to my XFCE setup.
I run IntelliJ and a browser, and mostly call it a day.
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On the most recent episode of ATP podcast, an anonymous person wrote in to say that when they worked at Apple until ~2013, there was effectively no QA team on macOS. Granted that was over a decade ago, and "no QA team" doesn't mean no testing, but given the numerous bugs in macOS today, and that they almost never get fixed, I'm not surprised. (FWIW, I do not experience this bug you mentioned)
I was in a QA role on MacOS in 2010-2013. There isn’t a QA team, rather each group of developers and EM had a QA embedded with them.
I know people tend to get very upset by this but if I’m not mistaken the M1, M2 and I think the M3 processors all now have “unfixable” hardware level security bugs on par with SPECTRE that destroy the concept of a Secure Enclave AFAIK. https://wccftech.com/macs-running-apples-m1-m2-and-m3-chips-... So essentially they might be fast but they all have genuinely fatal flaws in them. But it’s not just the software that s…
Never wanted anything more than an iphone that runs android
As someone forced to use a Windows laptop for work with the new job, I've stopped complaining about my Mac. It's so much worse on the other side of the fence... Working on Windows makes me appreciate the Mac ecosystem so, so, so very much.
I know the feeling. I'm forced to use a Mac laptop for work, and it's really made me appreciate Linux.
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I know the feeling. I'm forced to use a Mac laptop for work, and it's really made me appreciate Linux.
Which distro do you use? I've run a mac and Linux laptop and the Linux setup keeps sending me back to Mac.
I'm not sure how this is possible, but it's trivial to replicate and is only resolved by rebooting the device.
I would pay a premium for a system that never gets any new features except for bug & security patches. In fact, that's more or less what iOS was for a long time, and I loved every second of it. Once you have a good feature set, you can spend years and years ironing out 100% of the bugs and vulnerabilities and you'd build a rabid fanbase of crotchety tech-saturated users like me. I want something that Just Works.
As someone forced to use a Windows laptop for work with the new job, I've stopped complaining about my Mac. It's so much worse on the other side of the fence... Working on Windows makes me appreciate the Mac ecosystem so, so, so very much.
I know the feeling. I'm forced to use a Mac laptop for work, and it's really made me appreciate Linux.
I’m proficient with more or less every modern desktop and can get by on any of any of them if I have to, but being happy doing so is another matter.
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As someone who works on both I don't notice a difference. Mac sucks just as much as Windows (or visa versa). There's things each does better and things each does worse.
The answer with any discussion of this nature is to immediately disregard any and all answer that doesn't come in, unprompted, with an explanation. Which is about 90% of the comments here. Not a joke. I have counted 18 and see only 2 with specific gripes. Worthless comment section. (Sorry, but I did include yours too) I was 16 when I first met the first big "Mac is better than Windows" argument in person. I asked why…