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Funny that. I use Linux because it just works, macs are a pain and windows is just laughable. What annoys me about the last decadeish of Mac developers is the
by isostatic 9y ago
Funny that. I use Linux because it just works, macs are a pain and windows is just laughable.
What annoys me about the last decadeish of Mac developers is the terrible prevalence of things like "curl|bash", custom pacakage managers, unversioned software etc.
This could just be the company I work for, but as far as I'm concerned software is not released unless there is a collection of software and instructions on installing. Deb, rpm, even a rat all is fine. Anything that downloads something from a random website is not.
Now obviously Mac developers don't enforce this attitude, but it does seem to correlate.
- eknkc 9y agoI used to run Linux before switching to Mac, around 10 years ago. Recently got a Dell XPS 13 and installed Ubuntu (then Mint). Installing stuff on Ubuntu I used a couple of PPAs. How is this any different than curl|bash? You just trust some repo blindly. Also, please refer me to this magical distro that just works cause I have seen these before going back to Mac: - HiDPI scaling does not just work. There are weird issues here and there. - Closing the lid does not reliably put the laptop to sleep. Sometimes when it does, opening it does not just wake it up. - Once in a while, the OS completely forgot that it had a Wi-Fi device. I just restarted and it returned. I don’t have time to test workarounds, read logs, try different distros and shit like that. I never once had to think twice before tossing a MacBook into my pack because it might still be awake? I love Linux on servers, used o love it on my desktop but that was high school / college days. I had too much time to tweak things just perfect.