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I've been living on a high end Dell XPS laptop for several months, and it's just simply not as good as my 2014 MBP in most ways. The Dell screen is exceptional
by blunte 8y ago
I've been living on a high end Dell XPS laptop for several months, and it's just simply not as good as my 2014 MBP in most ways. The Dell screen is exceptional and the keyboard is pretty ok, but I have never used a trackpad as good as on the Mac.
Then when you talk about Windows vs MacOS, I could write a huge long list of reasons life (my life) is so much more productive and less sucky on the Mac.
I think the people that prefer PCs are people using just one or two programs that happen to work well there (or games). But try a wide variety of activities and you find so many little rough edges and missing features/integrations compared to MacOS.
Then if you're a developer targeting Linux for production, there's just no question that your life will be less painful if you're developing in MacOS compared to Windows. I have gotten most things to work eventually in Windows, but it will often be the last platform supported by a given language or set of dev tools. WSL is much better than nothing, but it's not a complete answer (yet... ever...?)
- xenophonf 8y agoMacs are OK standalone machines, I guess, but client-side caching plus roaming profiles and folder redirection are _the_ killer Windows features for me. The macOS UX for mobile users just isn't as good, and there isn't anything even close to equivalent on FreeBSD/Linux. Now, if only more Windows apps would stop putting caches and temp files in %APPDATA% or installing stuff in %USERPROFILE%... that's what %LOCALAPPDATA% is for! (Firefox, Factorio, npm, maven---I'm talking about you, among many others.)
- blunte 8y agoI should add that I'm very happy with the direction MS has taken (after Ballmer left...) On the other hand, for daily use, Windows 7 was snappier and less in my way than win10 is. Some changes really feel like steps backward.
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