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Every year I try and switch over to a Linux desktop from Mac and every year I rage quit because of some stupid bug. On the surface things always work "flawlessl

Every year I try and switch over to a Linux desktop from Mac and every year I rage quit because of some stupid bug. On the surface things always work "flawlessly", but then I try something slightly out of the ordinary and I'm digging through logs and obscure message boards to figure out what is broken (adjusting the speed of my mouse off hyper drive... More than the slider allows). In the end I think I'll probably end up using a chromebook for Linux if I want to escape from BSD Mac. Or just stick with Mac on the laptop and Linux on the server.

teekert 11y ago
Haha, I have the opposite experience, usually I use Linux to get things done. When I configure my wife's Mac (which I also often use) I get so frustrated that I can't use TimeMachine to make backups to an smb-share (Why? I ended up using rsync). Also, I can't use sshfs without significant hassle. FTP is not support in finder... And I have once spent an entire night trying to make my external mouse not feel like I'm mousing through mud only to find out that the mouse behavior (accel curve etc) can't be adjust anymore since Leopard (or something) came out. That was pretty frustrating. Other that those things osX is pretty stable but it does get slow over time, I have 16GB of ram in my 2011 Core-i7 MBP, I see a lot of beach-balls even though I reinstalled last year.
- tmikaeld 11y ago
  I keep seeing this repeated, why would it be OK not to use tools to fix issues in Linux but not OS X? Here tools to fix your issues: - Time Machine only support HFS+ filesystem but you can use the excellent: Carbon Copy Cloner - For mounting SFTP, FTP and any cloud drive use: ExpanDrive - It's actually not the mouse curve, it's the rendering buffer, most people don't notice it but a windows user should, fixable with: Smoothmouse - If it's slow you probably don't have an SSD drive in that computer, so while it's indexing all hundreds of thousands of files it will be slow while using it.
- matt_wulfeck 11y ago
  Totally fair. Mac is great as long as you stay in the ecosystem, but I'm trying to escape! This is the reason why chromebook sate starting to looking appealing. The hardware already comes totally supported but I can also get a root shell. We will see. I expect things to slowly get better over time.

teekert 11y ago

Haha, I have the opposite experience, usually I use Linux to get things done. When I configure my wife's Mac (which I also often use) I get so frustrated that I can't use TimeMachine to make backups to an smb-share (Why? I ended up using rsync). Also, I can't use sshfs without significant hassle. FTP is not support in finder... And I have once spent an entire night trying to make my external mouse not feel like I'm mousing through mud only to find out that the mouse behavior (accel curve etc) can't be adjust anymore since Leopard (or something) came out. That was pretty frustrating. Other that those things osX is pretty stable but it does get slow over time, I have 16GB of ram in my 2011 Core-i7 MBP, I see a lot of beach-balls even though I reinstalled last year.

tmikaeld 11y ago
I keep seeing this repeated, why would it be OK not to use tools to fix issues in Linux but not OS X? Here tools to fix your issues: - Time Machine only support HFS+ filesystem but you can use the excellent: Carbon Copy Cloner - For mounting SFTP, FTP and any cloud drive use: ExpanDrive - It's actually not the mouse curve, it's the rendering buffer, most people don't notice it but a windows user should, fixable with: Smoothmouse - If it's slow you probably don't have an SSD drive in that computer, so while it's indexing all hundreds of thousands of files it will be slow while using it.
matt_wulfeck 11y ago
Totally fair. Mac is great as long as you stay in the ecosystem, but I'm trying to escape! This is the reason why chromebook sate starting to looking appealing. The hardware already comes totally supported but I can also get a root shell. We will see. I expect things to slowly get better over time.