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I believe you, but I'm curious if you're using Windows 10? Also, what specifically is bad. (I'm a Linux desktop user since '99, MacOS since 08)
by robbyt 8y ago
I believe you, but I'm curious if you're using Windows 10? Also, what specifically is bad.
(I'm a Linux desktop user since '99, MacOS since 08)
- mr_toad 8y agoIt’s still a major PITA to install & maintain many open source tools, like curl, Ffmpeg, wget etc. The tool chain is hit and miss. Recompiling Ffmpeg with h265 support is one command on MacOS. I just recently had to recompile a R package that depended on some fairly obscure third party libraries. No problem, just a couple of brew install commands. I’d hate to think how much manual work it would have taken to line up all the dependencies for that in Windows. Likely I’d have just given up.
- commandlinefan 8y agoIt takes _ages_ to start up, for one thing. Debian, on the exact same hardware, starts up in seconds - Windows 7 takes minutes. You might argue that Windows is offering more functionality, but OS/X also starts orders of magnitude faster. There's no visibility on what the hell it's doing or how you can tune it. Wifi is hit-and-miss, and again, there's no way to peek into the internals and figure out what's going wrong. Configuration options are scattered everywhere; sometimes they're in control panel, sometimes they're in some random .msc file, sometimes they're just somewhere else for no reason. Linux is persnickety, but open - it takes some dedication to get things working, but you have the tools you need to do so. OS/X is closed, but "just works". Windows is persnickety, closed, and only sometimes works - you get the worst of Linux with the worst of OS/X and none of the good.