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Best battery life, best trackpad, best HiDPI scaling, best app selection under the UNIXes, ecosystem (Apple's garden is indeed high-walled, but its also very ni

Best battery life, best trackpad, best HiDPI scaling, best app selection under the UNIXes, ecosystem (Apple's garden is indeed high-walled, but its also very nice) Oh yeah, and you don't have to be afraid an OS update will make your laptop unbootable. Has happened to me under Ubuntu twice.

vetinari 10y ago
There are other annoyances though. My current ones are: - Apple Kerberos does not support MS-KKDCP and multiple factor auth. Services that require Authentication Indicator are simply not available from macOS. Their Ticket Viewer is even more simplistic than in 10.6 timeframe. - Their IPSec implementation is weird and haven't managed to make it work with Strongswan yet. > Oh yeah, and you don't have to be afraid an OS update will make your laptop unbootable. Has happened to me under Ubuntu twice. Just wait, sometimes it happens there too. There's a reason for that recovery partition.
- tornadoboy55 10y ago
  I've been using Macs for almost a decade now, never had something go belly-up that wasn't my own fault. Referring my anecdote, can't say the same about Linux sadly..
  - willtim 10y ago
    My wife's Mac has had numerous issues with updates and upgrades and third party software. In comparison, my NixOS machines update flawlessly, as expected from a stateless OS. But that's also just an anecdote :)
herbst 10y ago
Funny you mention that. On linux i dont have to worry that updates break my development environment. On osx ever major update did. Perspectives :)
willtim 10y ago
> you don't have to be afraid an OS update will make your laptop unbootable. That's not true. Apple's yearly OS upgrades can and do brick machines. At least with Ubuntu, I'd stand a good chance of diagnosing and fixing the issue. Also, we are just talking about Ubuntu here and not all Linux distributions. For example, NixOS is a Linux with an entirely different method of managing upgrades.

vetinari 10y ago

There are other annoyances though. My current ones are: - Apple Kerberos does not support MS-KKDCP and multiple factor auth. Services that require Authentication Indicator are simply not available from macOS. Their Ticket Viewer is even more simplistic than in 10.6 timeframe. - Their IPSec implementation is weird and haven't managed to make it work with Strongswan yet. > Oh yeah, and you don't have to be afraid an OS update will make your laptop unbootable. Has happened to me under Ubuntu twice. Just wait, sometimes it happens there too. There's a reason for that recovery partition.

tornadoboy55 10y ago
I've been using Macs for almost a decade now, never had something go belly-up that wasn't my own fault. Referring my anecdote, can't say the same about Linux sadly..
- willtim 10y ago
  My wife's Mac has had numerous issues with updates and upgrades and third party software. In comparison, my NixOS machines update flawlessly, as expected from a stateless OS. But that's also just an anecdote :)

herbst 10y ago

Funny you mention that. On linux i dont have to worry that updates break my development environment. On osx ever major update did. Perspectives :)

willtim 10y ago

> you don't have to be afraid an OS update will make your laptop unbootable. That's not true. Apple's yearly OS upgrades can and do brick machines. At least with Ubuntu, I'd stand a good chance of diagnosing and fixing the issue. Also, we are just talking about Ubuntu here and not all Linux distributions. For example, NixOS is a Linux with an entirely different method of managing upgrades.