If Mac are so expensive why are hackintoshes still out of favor ?
They’re delicate, and the ARM situation is probably going to end whatever practicality is left.
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
#52Macbook 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...
The M1 MacBook air has been on sale for $799 several times. "shitty hardware" ??? I am not aware of any PC laptop that comes close to the build quality of a MacBook Air for less. "SSD soldered to motherboard, bad cooling, no touchscreen, broken keyboard, no way to replace battery..." SSD soldered: It is a bit disappointing, but Apple ships the fastest SSD's in the industry. Bad cooling: The MacBook air is passively c…
> Apple ships the fastest SSD's in the industry
Only because they're not standards compliant/cheating and lose data when you e.g. lose power or your kernel panics: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1494213855387734019?lang...
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#53Earlier 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…
> Windows interrupts you regularly for stuff that's not important to whatever you're doing. It has literally never happened to me. However it happens weekly on Mac, where I will lose the focus of my window and be prompted for an update.
> where I will lose the focus of my window and be prompted for an update.
That you can disable in System Preferences. On Windows Home, for example, updates cannot be disabled, and the OS will install them even if this means ruining everything you're doing.
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#54I 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…
I fully agree. Other than Preview, there's absolutely nothing about macOS that I miss when I'm not using it, and I used to be a so-called "Mac" person. It's just a collection of compromises between a high-level OS and a Linux-like and a desktop OS and iOS. It is a massive pain, even with Homebrew, to get a development environment that just works and continues to just work. Every macOS update is a game of Russian roulette.
On Windows, my development environment is seamless. With WSL, I get an actual Linux distribution. And to be honest, Windows just has a lot less friction than macOS these days. You don't have to jump through all sorts of hoops to actually use your computer.
One example of the inanity of macOS and Apple is that in using an external monitor, macOS or the Macbook Pro is incapable of adjusting the brightness and even volume (!) of the external monitor. It's not that the keys don't work. It's that you just simply cannot do it even from the OS. It's absolutely insane people consider Apple the more simple solution. And oh yea, basically every day, my mouse and keyboard settings change or reset or stop working. The exact same setup works flawlessly with my home Windows 11 PC. I setup things, and they stay that way. Updates do not break my computer or reset settings. Applications work. And Windows 11, for whatever reason, does not hog as much RAM as macOS does.
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#55Earlier 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…
> Windows interrupts you regularly for stuff that's not important to whatever you're doing. It has literally never happened to me. However it happens weekly on Mac, where I will lose the focus of my window and be prompted for an update.
macOS updates are notified using the native notification subsystem. It's inobtrusive and definitely does not take the focus away from app windows.
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#56Earlier 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…
1) This is a Chrome issue. I use Safari and I don't have this problem in full screen.
2) I do not have this issue. But then again I don't really use the desktop for storing files. I use list view and lots of subfolders of Documents. Double-clicking a zip file in list view unzips it to a folder which appears before the zip file in the list (when sorting by date)
3) command-option-escape is the global hotkey to open the force-quit menu. You can also right-click the dock icon and hold option to change the quit command into force quit.
4) That sounds annoying. I have never used an external monitor on my MacBooks.
5) Desktops (the numbered ones you create by clicking +) don't rearrange themselves. It's only full screen windows that do. The desktops stay where they are relative to each other.
6) Why would I want unrelated files to be deleted when deleting one file? That's more of an iOS thing. On my Mac I only want to delete the files I specify and no others.
7) Press command and click on the current folder name at the top of the window to go back in the hierarchy. When you hover over the folder name you can also see an icon next to the name. This icon can be dragged and dropped into other windows to paste the text path to that folder. Or if you like, turn on the path bar under the View menu in Finder to be able to quickly jump back to any higher level in the path hierarchy. Press command-shift-g to open the go-to window where you can tab complete your way to a new path. The go-to window also respects relative directories like ~ for home and ./ for the current directory.
8) I love the default Terminal. It's way faster than all of the other terminals I've tried. It's nicely customizable and it has tabs which are good enough for me.
9) I never use the launchpad. Try using command-space to search for stuff from spotlight.
10) That's weird. In general, funky things happen when you run low on disk space for most operating systems. It's a good idea to keep a healthy amount of free space (20%). Try going to Apple -> About This Mac... -> Storage tab -> Manage... This nifty included tool will help you find and delete things that are taking up a lot of space, particularly things you aren't using very often. You can also turn on a feature that deletes files which have been sitting in the trash for 30 days. I never manually empty the trash anymore!
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#57I think my ideal Linux OS is probably Ubuntu/CentOS + something like macOS’s .app bundle file format for distributing end-user applications. When running personal Linux, I want things to generally “just work”, which means staying away from the distro package managers on Debian/Redhat derivatives. Given enough “hobby time” I manage to twist my base system’s packages into pretzels and/or break workflow critical softwar…
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> I think my ideal Linux OS is probably Ubuntu/CentOS + something like macOS’s .app bundle file format for distributing end-user applications.
Then I suggest looking at NeXTspace:
https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace
It does exactly that. CentOS, plus .app bundles, all integrated into a single bundle.
But the .app bundles come from GNUstep, so you can't pick your own desktop.
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
For 7), you can view the 'Path Bar'. It's not text but you can right click, copy path from any location or drag the proxies into a shell to get the path. You can also command-click the directory name in the window at the top to see the path/access parent directories.
Or just press ⌘⇧G.
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#59Terrible article with lot's of errors: >So it bought CentOS, then killed it, as it did with CoreOS https://www.centos.org/ https://getfedora.org/en/coreos?stream=stable >SUSE Linux Enterprise – which is to say it has a painfully slow release cycle. 1 year is painfull? >"Tumbleweed", has a rolling release model, which means the exciting potential of breaking changes every single day. No, that's why tumbleweed is not e…
Did you really miss RedHat killing CentOS 8? The support was supposed to last to 2029 if I remember correctly. It was cut to end of 2021. Stream is a different product for a different audience. And CoreOS from the company CoreOS is actually dead. Fedora CoreOS is built from scratch. It's very similar to Fedora IoT (runs rpm-ostree, podman, ignition), but it downstreams to RHCOS, which you only get with OpenShift. Nei…
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Thanks for that. Genuinely. :-)
Re: Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
#60I 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.
MacOS has suffered (and continues suffering) from severe neglect at Apple. That's why the current situation (especially with GUI) is ... weird, to say the least.
10 years ago it was the most polished and consistent UI experience among all the major OSes. Today it's a mess (though IMO still better than the alternatives).