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> Apple can ignore the PC market entirely Man, I hope they don't do that. I love my Mac!
by flippyhead 10y ago
> Apple can ignore the PC market entirely
Man, I hope they don't do that. I love my Mac!
- santaclaus 10y agoFor real -- having most of the *nix niceties in a visually appealing, hassle free environment is so nice. We are on Red Hat at work, and the hoops one has to jump through to get reasonable fonts up and running and the huge inconsistencies between desktop apps makes me pine for the Mac.
- vetinari 10y agoWell, getting reasonable fonts from RHEL7 is quite easy (once you know, how). Getting OSX machine enrolled into IPA domain is still PITA. (The point is, that all systems have their nice and not-so-nice aspects.)
- AsyncAwait 10y agoIt's true for enterprise distributions, sure, but something like Arch Linux+GNOME 3.20 is REEALY nice. I use a Mac at work and my Arch with GNOME setup at home is easily matching the Mac and even outperforming it in terms of package management etc. Mac still handles high DPI a lot better, (but GNOME is getting there too) and if I was doing media content production, Linux probably wouldn't cut it for me, but I'm programmer and Linux is just the sweet spot of power + choice + usability for me.
- Aeolos 10y agoArch + Gnome 3.20 is what I use on my desktop too. The UX is excellent. Too bad that linux battery life and gpu-switching is still not up to scratch for laptops.
- scoates 10y agoVery short sighted of parent post. One of the main reasons I don't consider (very hard) switching away from iPhone is the integration with my Mac (which I do still think is worth using, at least unless they ruin this platform). If I had a Linux laptop………