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It makes me curious - do we (mac users) like our hardware, do we like our UI, do we like a combo of both or is it something else? Regardless, cool to hear you g

by rankam 10y ago

It makes me curious - do we (mac users) like our hardware, do we like our UI, do we like a combo of both or is it something else? Regardless, cool to hear you got elementary running on a mac!

aspectmin 10y ago
I like that in the past, it's been rock solid stable and I have had to perform very little IT support to keep it so. Not so stable these days, which is where a lot of my issues come from. Here's my primary reasons for using OSX / Mac's all these years: -- A unix variant shell underneath - so I can do all my work fast, relatively compatible with my linux servers in the cloud, and run things like MySQL, Mongo, Node, etc... locally. Definitely a keyboard guy as well. Now that Windows has Bash/Canonical -- I suspect this will be a game changer. -- Terminal and Iterm -- Actually - this is probably the major reason. I run lots of windows, and lots of scripting therein. Conemu / Putty for Windows isn't bad. Linux has a few not so bad terminal clients, but nothing touches Iterm. Come to think of it - if I had iTerm on my Win10 machine, with bash for scripting, and a great ssh command line client - I'd have no issues making it my daily driver. -- Sublime Text. -- But I've been back using Vim and Emacs more and more. -- Something about Windows... they seem to have no concern for interrupting what you're doing and popping up a window that just blocks everything. It's like a 'rude' operating system. Mac's just don't seem to do that. -- Actually the Apps that have kept me on a Mac: iTerm, Panic Transmit, Sublime Text, and Bash/Zsh. What I really want in a Mac: GTX 1080's or NVidia Titan X's, or something that can actually do GPU work relatively fast (Machine learning is eating the world), and drive multiple 4k monitors. 32+G of RAM. Happy to give up some battery life and weight to do these.
- lowmagnet 10y ago
  Regarding heavy nVidia iron: https://bizon-tech.com/us/bizonbox3-egpu.html/ https://bizon-tech.com/us/bizonbox3-egpu.html/ I think that'll get you one slot, so make it count. I'd also like to see if anaconda can work with an external adaptor for compute.
  - aspectmin 10y ago
    Wow. Thanks. Very helpful.

by rankam 10y ago

It makes me curious - do we (mac users) like our hardware, do we like our UI, do we like a combo of both or is it something else? Regardless, cool to hear you got elementary running on a mac!

aspectmin 10y ago

I like that in the past, it's been rock solid stable and I have had to perform very little IT support to keep it so. Not so stable these days, which is where a lot of my issues come from. Here's my primary reasons for using OSX / Mac's all these years: -- A unix variant shell underneath - so I can do all my work fast, relatively compatible with my linux servers in the cloud, and run things like MySQL, Mongo, Node, etc... locally. Definitely a keyboard guy as well. Now that Windows has Bash/Canonical -- I suspect this will be a game changer. -- Terminal and Iterm -- Actually - this is probably the major reason. I run lots of windows, and lots of scripting therein. Conemu / Putty for Windows isn't bad. Linux has a few not so bad terminal clients, but nothing touches Iterm. Come to think of it - if I had iTerm on my Win10 machine, with bash for scripting, and a great ssh command line client - I'd have no issues making it my daily driver. -- Sublime Text. -- But I've been back using Vim and Emacs more and more. -- Something about Windows... they seem to have no concern for interrupting what you're doing and popping up a window that just blocks everything. It's like a 'rude' operating system. Mac's just don't seem to do that. -- Actually the Apps that have kept me on a Mac: iTerm, Panic Transmit, Sublime Text, and Bash/Zsh. What I really want in a Mac: GTX 1080's or NVidia Titan X's, or something that can actually do GPU work relatively fast (Machine learning is eating the world), and drive multiple 4k monitors. 32+G of RAM. Happy to give up some battery life and weight to do these.

lowmagnet 10y ago
Regarding heavy nVidia iron: https://bizon-tech.com/us/bizonbox3-egpu.html/ https://bizon-tech.com/us/bizonbox3-egpu.html/ I think that'll get you one slot, so make it count. I'd also like to see if anaconda can work with an external adaptor for compute.
- aspectmin 10y ago
  Wow. Thanks. Very helpful.