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Maybe because after decades I'm frankly pissed of all the infinite glitches in windows and Linux and I want something that just works? Every hour spent in fight

Maybe because after decades I'm frankly pissed of all the infinite glitches in windows and Linux and I want something that just works? Every hour spent in fighting those problems is real money that I lose, but above all I want to write code, not to fight with a machine. I'm not 16 anymore (when I had all the time of this world and when I even enjoyed the fight), now I just want to use my time to write code instead of wasting it. Simply as that.

dkarapetyan 10y ago
I agree but how does a mac deliver that experience? How hard is it to fuck up installing the required dev toolchain and then jumping into Vim or your IDE of choice to get work done? How does a mac help with any of that? I've never run into any issues with my dell machine and it started with ubuntu 12.04 when I first got it. Each upgrade has gone without any hitches or glitches.
- jswny 10y ago
  Simply getting Linux onto a lot of my machines with working graphics, audio, and other drivers is a pain a lot of times.
  - AsyncAwait 10y ago
    If you intend to purchase a system with the intent of running linux on it, please consider a system76, (or any other Clevo reseller, such as Scan Computers in the UK) or a Lenovo that is known to work well or the XPS Dev Edition and you'll have much better time getting all these things to work, (usually out-of-the-box) than on a random PC meant to run Windows and nothing else.
ant6n 10y ago
I spent a lot of time fighting with macs to get it to behave like other operating systems. Like setting up the terminal to not look stupid. A lot of time was spent fighting to get tap-to-drag without a release delay. Still nope. Overall, it can be a pretty infuriating operating system as well.
- peatmoss 10y ago
  I don't remember when it happened, but there came a time when the amount of effort to strip and disable stuff in Mac OS X became more of an effort than free *nixen. Sometime later, I made a small investment in swapping a desktop environment for a vanilla xmonad, and I couldn't be happier with the minimalism and lack of distractions.
minitech 10y ago
> Maybe because after decades I'm frankly pissed of all the infinite glitches in windows and Linux and I want something that just works? I actually ended up switching from OS X to Linux (on a MacBook) for this reason. Things break all the time, but at least I can usually figure out how to fix them on Linux. (OS X would freeze at random times, requiring a hard shutdown, and also sometimes resume from sleep with a black screen and no way to change it, the former happening across every version and the latter only after I upgraded to Mavericks).

dkarapetyan 10y ago

I agree but how does a mac deliver that experience? How hard is it to fuck up installing the required dev toolchain and then jumping into Vim or your IDE of choice to get work done? How does a mac help with any of that? I've never run into any issues with my dell machine and it started with ubuntu 12.04 when I first got it. Each upgrade has gone without any hitches or glitches.

jswny 10y ago
Simply getting Linux onto a lot of my machines with working graphics, audio, and other drivers is a pain a lot of times.
- AsyncAwait 10y ago
  If you intend to purchase a system with the intent of running linux on it, please consider a system76, (or any other Clevo reseller, such as Scan Computers in the UK) or a Lenovo that is known to work well or the XPS Dev Edition and you'll have much better time getting all these things to work, (usually out-of-the-box) than on a random PC meant to run Windows and nothing else.

ant6n 10y ago

I spent a lot of time fighting with macs to get it to behave like other operating systems. Like setting up the terminal to not look stupid. A lot of time was spent fighting to get tap-to-drag without a release delay. Still nope. Overall, it can be a pretty infuriating operating system as well.

peatmoss 10y ago
I don't remember when it happened, but there came a time when the amount of effort to strip and disable stuff in Mac OS X became more of an effort than free *nixen. Sometime later, I made a small investment in swapping a desktop environment for a vanilla xmonad, and I couldn't be happier with the minimalism and lack of distractions.

minitech 10y ago

> Maybe because after decades I'm frankly pissed of all the infinite glitches in windows and Linux and I want something that just works? I actually ended up switching from OS X to Linux (on a MacBook) for this reason. Things break all the time, but at least I can usually figure out how to fix them on Linux. (OS X would freeze at random times, requiring a hard shutdown, and also sometimes resume from sleep with a black screen and no way to change it, the former happening across every version and the latter only after I upgraded to Mavericks).