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Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

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Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

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Post by peterbraden »

MuppetMaster42 wrote: post #60

At my startup we just bought 4 new 2017 13" MBPs. We bought some expensive USB c to HDMI adapters so we could connect two monitors to them. 3 out of the 4 MBPs have a fault which causes the second screen to flicker and bug out. We tried every combination of the adapters but the 3 MBPs were consistently faulty. After searching the web, it turns out this is a very common defect in them since at least 2016. The repairs…

Oh yes, I have this issue. It also makes doing a presentation from the laptop impossible as the projector would keep disconnecting.

Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

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Post by fro0116 »

domenukk wrote: post #16
rayiner wrote: post #10

What is there left to do on the desktop? Where recent Apple machines shine is fitting into a really good ecosystem. I can receive a text on my Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Watch. I can pull out my Mac and it instantly connects to the LTE on my iPad. It’s seamless and it works with no configuration. Windows is still not there yet.

This works perfectly fine on Windows for both windows phone and Android. I can reply Android texts, whatsapps and even third party apps from a windows desktop.

Mind sharing how to actually do this with Android?

Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

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Post by lokedhs »

not_kurt_godel wrote: post #54
lokedhs wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since Apple has given up on keeping what really matters for a Unix, its tools, up to date the amount of time you have to spend installing the latest version of things like Bash is actually higher for OSX than Windows these days. I am aware that at least one of the reasons for Apple to ship stone-age versions of everything from Emacs to GCC is that they hate GPL3. But the reasons don't matter when the latest version o…

Just use zsh instead of bash, it's superior anyways.

It is, and I use it. But my post was about more than just a single tool.

Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

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Post by Grumbledour »

tyteen4a03 wrote: post #22

The only reason I'm staying with macOS is because it is the only UNIX distribution that doesn't look downright ugly. (Sorry Linux, none of your distros match up to Apple's offering) I've had lots of teething issues with High Sierra (especially with APFS) and I certainly don't like the new butterfly keyboard in the new MacBook Pros. But on the other hand, they've got the best gesture controls. With Windows 10 you can…

> Screenshot shortcuts (Cmd+Shift+4) is another thing I use on a daily basis that's still not in Windows 10

While I am not sure how screenshot shortcuts on the mac work, so they might be superior, windows has the snipping tool at least (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13776/windows-use-s...), which you can also use with Win+Shift+s

Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

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Post by KayL »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #4

Got a Macbook Pro in 2016. As of today, the E, R, and T keys have all stopped working. Apple wants $500 for a logic board replacement. It was fine when it was just the R key. Sort of. I set up bash scripts to copy-paste "r" to my clipboard, and just pressed command-V instead of "r". But then the T key went out.

My Macbook's J,K,L was broken and I clone the English input and re-mapping them into Shift+ "M,"

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...

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Post by jaxondu »

dillera wrote: post #52
cmurf wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the Windows Subsystem for Linux was kinda funny, but actually it's so well integrated and useful for all the reasons people like using Linux (more correctly, their shell of choice). Where Apple is so neurotically anti-GPLv3 that they've allowed the GPLv2 stuff in macOS to get extremely old. And I see no evidence those ancient tools like rsync 2.1.9 are even getting security updates. That is the platform I s…

The WSL is absolutely not integrated at all. It's pretty horrible. What terminal do you use with it? Powershell? How do you cut and paste between terminals? Tabs? I found the only way to have a decent Unix terminal experience was to run an Xserver and connect to it from powershell. Install git in WSL, clone down some projects and then access those files you just cloned down from Windows Explorer. Show the integration…

Best solution is for MS to buy one of Linux distro (Ubuntu) and release a version of Windows with Linux core. Or for Google to release a full fledge OS for Pixelbook.

Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

KayL wrote: post #65
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #4

Got a Macbook Pro in 2016. As of today, the E, R, and T keys have all stopped working. Apple wants $500 for a logic board replacement. It was fine when it was just the R key. Sort of. I set up bash scripts to copy-paste "r" to my clipboard, and just pressed command-V instead of "r". But then the T key went out.

My Macbook's J,K,L was broken and I clone the English input and re-mapping them into Shift+ "M, " http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...

That's hilarious.

And yesterday I read someone's comment on HN that Apple support is "the best in the world".

But seriously, something is really wrong here.

Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

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Post by BerislavLopac »

tyteen4a03 wrote: post #22

The only reason I'm staying with macOS is because it is the only UNIX distribution that doesn't look downright ugly. (Sorry Linux, none of your distros match up to Apple's offering) I've had lots of teething issues with High Sierra (especially with APFS) and I certainly don't like the new butterfly keyboard in the new MacBook Pros. But on the other hand, they've got the best gesture controls. With Windows 10 you can…

> Sorry Linux, none of your distros match up to Apple's offering

Out of curiosity, which ones have you tried?

Re: Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

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Post by madmax108 »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #4

Got a Macbook Pro in 2016. As of today, the E, R, and T keys have all stopped working. Apple wants $500 for a logic board replacement. It was fine when it was just the R key. Sort of. I set up bash scripts to copy-paste "r" to my clipboard, and just pressed command-V instead of "r". But then the T key went out.

My girlfriend's new Macbook air had the up arrow key literally pop out when the laptop was just sitting idle. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. Take it to the Apple store, and again spend time having to listen to how it's human misuse that caused it. After a lot of dramatics, and having to explain that the system was barely 2 months old and not even used for heavy stuff like gaming or number crunching, before they finally replaced it under warranty with no charge!

That single incident removed years of faith my girlfriend had with Apple (she's been using Apple systems continuously since 2012 or so)

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