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It sure would be nice if macOS worked as well as Apple was promising a few years back. My MBP is so buggy as it is with El Cap that I prefer to use a cheap sur

by nxc18 10y ago

It sure would be nice if macOS worked as well as Apple was promising a few years back. My MBP is so buggy as it is with El Cap that I prefer to use a cheap surface 3 for anything other than dev work. Every time Apple releases a macOS update I'm left to decide between the bugs I already experienced that might be fixed and the mountain of bugs that are surely hidden in the new update.

wlesieutre 10y ago
I used to have a Surface Pro 3 and the wifi on that machine was mental. I know people have been complaining about wifi reliability on Apple's computers for years now, but the Surface was really something else. Every couple of weeks they'd put out a patch that claimed to fix the wifi, and while it did get better, it was never as good as it should have been. I live in a 1-bedroom apartment with an 802.11ac router and all of my other devices work fine. The router's off at one end of the apartment where the coax comes in, but I'm never more than 25 feet away from it.
- stinkytaco 10y ago
  I had the same issue on my Surface, but Windows 10 basically fixed it. Of course, that was a year after I bought it. I've heard here and talked to a number of professionals that do not use Linux because they want something that "just works". But if I really sit down and catalog my issues, Linux can be a headache to set up, but once it's working I rarely have issues. Part of that is researching the right hardware, so I guess it's not the plug and play of proprietary platforms, but it works.
  - wlesieutre 10y ago
    Wifi was definitely better under 10. The random keyboard disconnections on the other hand... those never got fixed. Maybe it was a hardware problem with the magnetic connector and pogo pins. The last piece of productivity software I wanted on Linux was just released recently (Substance Designer), so I'm seriously considering a dual boot. Have to keep Windows around because it's my gaming machine, but I'm a bit sick of having software updates shoved down my throat at inopportune times. What pisses me off the most about W10 is that it makes you pick "active hours" when it won't install updates, but it's a 12 hour maximum and it's the same every day. As if my home computer's usage pattern on Monday-Friday is going to be the same as the weekend.
  - lmm 10y ago
    I found that was the case pre-NetworkManager/PulseAudio/SystemD, but these days Linux won't stay working any better than Windows does. (My FreeBSD system is still rock solid though)
gnashville 10y ago
With you regarding macOS bugs but I've never been more miserable using technology than the last time I touched Surface.
- nxc18 10y ago
  Surface does have its fair share of bugs. At least in my experience (YMMV) the macOS bugs are more critical and often revolve around NVRAM, which somehow only breaks things for Mac devices. The newest and my personal favorite is a faulty file save/open dialog on OS X. Anytime an app invokes that, the entire app crashes. Really fun in Chrome, Word, Atom, or any other app that involves opening or saving files.

by nxc18 10y ago

wlesieutre 10y ago

I used to have a Surface Pro 3 and the wifi on that machine was mental. I know people have been complaining about wifi reliability on Apple's computers for years now, but the Surface was really something else. Every couple of weeks they'd put out a patch that claimed to fix the wifi, and while it did get better, it was never as good as it should have been. I live in a 1-bedroom apartment with an 802.11ac router and all of my other devices work fine. The router's off at one end of the apartment where the coax comes in, but I'm never more than 25 feet away from it.

stinkytaco 10y ago
I had the same issue on my Surface, but Windows 10 basically fixed it. Of course, that was a year after I bought it. I've heard here and talked to a number of professionals that do not use Linux because they want something that "just works". But if I really sit down and catalog my issues, Linux can be a headache to set up, but once it's working I rarely have issues. Part of that is researching the right hardware, so I guess it's not the plug and play of proprietary platforms, but it works.
- wlesieutre 10y ago
  Wifi was definitely better under 10. The random keyboard disconnections on the other hand... those never got fixed. Maybe it was a hardware problem with the magnetic connector and pogo pins. The last piece of productivity software I wanted on Linux was just released recently (Substance Designer), so I'm seriously considering a dual boot. Have to keep Windows around because it's my gaming machine, but I'm a bit sick of having software updates shoved down my throat at inopportune times. What pisses me off the most about W10 is that it makes you pick "active hours" when it won't install updates, but it's a 12 hour maximum and it's the same every day. As if my home computer's usage pattern on Monday-Friday is going to be the same as the weekend.
- lmm 10y ago
  I found that was the case pre-NetworkManager/PulseAudio/SystemD, but these days Linux won't stay working any better than Windows does. (My FreeBSD system is still rock solid though)

gnashville 10y ago

With you regarding macOS bugs but I've never been more miserable using technology than the last time I touched Surface.

nxc18 10y ago
Surface does have its fair share of bugs. At least in my experience (YMMV) the macOS bugs are more critical and often revolve around NVRAM, which somehow only breaks things for Mac devices. The newest and my personal favorite is a faulty file save/open dialog on OS X. Anytime an app invokes that, the entire app crashes. Really fun in Chrome, Word, Atom, or any other app that involves opening or saving files.