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I loathe macOS but stick with it mostly for the hardware. I use a beefed-up 16-inch M3 Max for work and a baseline 15-inch MacBook Air for writing and OSS work. I love the Air’s hardware and wouldn’t trade it for anything. Before switching to Mac, I was running a maxed-out 16-inch Dell XPS and enjoyed using Ubuntu and Pop!_OS on it. But the hardware just wasn’t there—the trackpad felt cheap, and the keyboard would cr…
I kind of hate articles like this. I use Linux, I think it's great, I think everyone should use it. I don't think you need user skills to use it. Gnome is super friendly to use (although maybe it needs to make the dock visible by default). KDE isn't bad and is Windows-like. I don't think Linux is more complex than Windows. Folders are laid out in a common sense way. Ever tried uninstalling a Windows program that was…
How would you make a case backing this up?
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The other advantage I see to macOS is commercial app support. Like it or not, it can be a fact of life for many. Photoshop users don’t want to use GIMP. While Electron has made Linux on the desktop much more viable in this respect, there is are some key apps that macOS has where Linux is lacking. And of course there is also working between mobile and desktop, which macOS/iOS seem to do best. Part of me longs for the…
A lot of free software have a huge learning curve but the payoff long term is always much more than sticking with commercial software which gets nerfed and eventually subscription model with few feature additions and many subtractions.
I loathe macOS but stick with it mostly for the hardware. I use a beefed-up 16-inch M3 Max for work and a baseline 15-inch MacBook Air for writing and OSS work. I love the Air’s hardware and wouldn’t trade it for anything. Before switching to Mac, I was running a maxed-out 16-inch Dell XPS and enjoyed using Ubuntu and Pop!_OS on it. But the hardware just wasn’t there—the trackpad felt cheap, and the keyboard would cr…
Many years ago Apple added twitter support at the OS level. At that moment, they chose to become an ad network instead of a technology company. The hardware is very nice of course and just like you it’s the only reason I stay.
Edit: Looks like there was twitter integration in OSX 10.8/10.9 according to ChatGPT and eventually removed in 10.14.
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I've never used anything but Linux on the 20 or so laptops I've gone through. Suspend can be an issue, fan control can be suboptimal, but the only thing I find intolerable is the touchpad, so I use a mouse. I've had one or two bad laptops, but most were sufficient. If I had a laptop presently, it would be running Linux.
You use it with a mouse... That is telling. Have you considered that people actually want to use the laptop all by itself? Without an external mouse? That's the experience you're supposed to benchmark for.
I am unusually OCD with touchpads though, and have a history of actually smashing them during times of high stress. Why the touchpad isn't taken more seriously in Linux-land is a mystery to me and certainly a point of contention. For all the other benefits of Linux on a laptop, it is something I've always just accepted and been otherwise very grateful for.
I kind of hate articles like this. I use Linux, I think it's great, I think everyone should use it. I don't think you need user skills to use it. Gnome is super friendly to use (although maybe it needs to make the dock visible by default). KDE isn't bad and is Windows-like. I don't think Linux is more complex than Windows. Folders are laid out in a common sense way. Ever tried uninstalling a Windows program that was…
> Those are photo editing tools. For design/content creation Krita is the best tool for raster images by far... How would you make a case backing this up?
"Gnu IMAGE Manipulation Program"
Versus Krita which is very obviously geared towards creation (from scratch) with it's plethora of painting tools. Or Inkscape for vector images.
Same goes for PHOTOshop versus Illustrator...
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> Those are photo editing tools. For design/content creation Krita is the best tool for raster images by far... How would you make a case backing this up?
It's literally what each is designed to do? "Gnu IMAGE Manipulation Program" Versus Krita which is very obviously geared towards creation (from scratch) with it's plethora of painting tools. Or Inkscape for vector images. Same goes for PHOTOshop versus Illustrator...
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It's literally what each is designed to do? "Gnu IMAGE Manipulation Program" Versus Krita which is very obviously geared towards creation (from scratch) with it's plethora of painting tools. Or Inkscape for vector images. Same goes for PHOTOshop versus Illustrator...
Ah you mean it's a better tool than the GIMP for content creation, not that it's the best tool period. I was confused by lumping Photoshop in there in the original statement. (I'd consider Photoshop more like a combination of Krita and the GIMP [i.e., Photoshop is a raster graphics program with both painting and photo manipulation tools], while Illustrator is more analogous to Inkscape [both vector graphics editors])
Definitely better than GIMP or PS.
Except that for user freedom I think the best distro for Linux beginers would be somehting simple with good docs like Slackware or LFS, not the super-complex windows wannabe distros like Fedora or Ubuntu. It's much more welcomming, with very little ceremony around building and modifying packages.
Missing the "/s"
So if someone's suggesting a distro that's good for "reclaiming your freedom", then one of the simplest distros out there, made and maintained by a single person and well docummented, but still challenging enough that you end up learning something, should be a legitimate way to go.
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You use it with a mouse... That is telling. Have you considered that people actually want to use the laptop all by itself? Without an external mouse? That's the experience you're supposed to benchmark for.
Yeah, and touchpad behavior in Linux can be configured to a satisfactory degree, but with admittedly excessive fenagling. Modifying dozens of different parameters in a command line interface to get full functionality is silly. The default settings can easily be interpreted as deliberate cruelty. I am unusually OCD with touchpads though, and have a history of actually smashing them during times of high stress. Why the…
In fact, I think Apple should take a page out of Linux' book and put cursor acceleration in system preferences instead of the terminal. The amount of work that Apple puts into enforcing controversial defaults is mind-boggling.