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The thing separating OSX from Linux nowadays is application quality and ubiquity. I spend 90% of my time in *nix. But unfortunately there are a huge number of f

by swozey 10y ago

The thing separating OSX from Linux nowadays is application quality and ubiquity. I spend 90% of my time in *nix. But unfortunately there are a huge number of fantastic applications that are only developed with OSX (and sometimes Windows) in mind. Linux is the "here's source code, good luck, also the UI was put together in QT in 20 minutes." Now, this is totally the fault of developers and not Apple. Maybe Linux needs some sort of all encompassing app store to incentivize development. The app ecosystem is just light years beyond anything that Linux offers. Yeah, I can spin up a kubernetes environment pretty quickly from the command line using minikube or a few alternatives, but on OSX I can use Kubesolo which ties into Corectl and lets me control systems from the task tray. Not to mention when I'm going to get new employees to hop on board if they're using OSX it's stupid simple as opposed to fighting various Linux configurations/security/etc. 1password has to be run inside of Wine which means the Chrome plugin can't connect to the application so you have to copy paste usernames/passwords into websites which all but defeats the purpose of it. Yeah, you can use keepass, but that's like trading in your 2016 VW for a 1994. Then a ton of tiny $2-10 apps that just make my life and job more productive. Popclip is my must have, it's tiny, you wouldn't ever think about using it if you weren't introduced to it, but once you know about it you wonder why it's not on ever system. Yoink is incredibly useful, it's a bucket where you drag files to input them into other applications. Yeah, that's not difficult, you can cp or move stuff around but once you get used to using it you want it around. There are Linux alternatives to just about everything but they're nearly always disjointed and nowhere near the quality of the OSX version. And if I look up software I can almost always KNOW that there's an OSX version available (sans games). The problem is that Linux, in the laptop/desktop world is still a last effort (if any effort) citizen. And that is hugely unfortunate.

pritambaral 10y ago
Sidenote: I honestly think the very necessity of Yoink is a design flaw. Doesn't drags onto the icon of a full screen window switch to that window? That is an ages old design pattern, ever since the birth of drag-and-drop, and breaking that doesn't seem to be of any profit.
- swozey 10y ago
  I don't even try it anymore. I've had so many times where I'd drag a file from my file manager to an app (recently Slack) and it complained about the file type or some other jibber jabber. The other day I was just sending someone a file on Slack, I didn't want slack to preview/play it, I wanted them to get the file. I got an error when I dragged it from my desktop, but when I went into Slack and browsed to it using their attachment browser it worked fine. Situations like that are when Yoink is great, when I have to find some work around to get funny.jpg to load into an app. Without Yoink I'd try it once then give up and move on. At least with it I can easily get back to the file and put it somewhere to access. At least, at a minimum, I can drag the file name into the file browser popup. But yeah, it's goofy that this isn't a reliable use case. I feel like it is in Windows but I use it a lot less.

by swozey 10y ago

pritambaral 10y ago

Sidenote: I honestly think the very necessity of Yoink is a design flaw. Doesn't drags onto the icon of a full screen window switch to that window? That is an ages old design pattern, ever since the birth of drag-and-drop, and breaking that doesn't seem to be of any profit.

swozey 10y ago
I don't even try it anymore. I've had so many times where I'd drag a file from my file manager to an app (recently Slack) and it complained about the file type or some other jibber jabber. The other day I was just sending someone a file on Slack, I didn't want slack to preview/play it, I wanted them to get the file. I got an error when I dragged it from my desktop, but when I went into Slack and browsed to it using their attachment browser it worked fine. Situations like that are when Yoink is great, when I have to find some work around to get funny.jpg to load into an app. Without Yoink I'd try it once then give up and move on. At least with it I can easily get back to the file and put it somewhere to access. At least, at a minimum, I can drag the file name into the file browser popup. But yeah, it's goofy that this isn't a reliable use case. I feel like it is in Windows but I use it a lot less.