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Also lifelong Mac user, and now my primary is an HP Spectre running Fedora. The only big painpoint is a Bluetooth mouse which comes and goes for no reason I can
by cmurf 8y ago
Also lifelong Mac user, and now my primary is an HP Spectre running Fedora. The only big painpoint is a Bluetooth mouse which comes and goes for no reason I can discern super flakey, where on Windows 10 it's OK; and a distant second is the trackpad picks up stray palm touches too easily but this also happens with Windows 10 although maybe not quite as annoying.
The main technical issue driving the switch is VM usage. macOS is not a friendly VM host, it's a huge memory and CPU pig on its own which soaks up resources from the guest. And as a guest, macOS is an even worse pig, and also has an unfriendly license for guesting it on non-Mac hardware. So I'm kinda over macOS, all of the proprietary stuff I need will run on Windows 10, which is something of a regression compared to macOS, in particular privacy. But I only use Windows 10 for certain kinds of work, so it's tolerable.
I do like the system reset and refresh options in Windows 10 though. I've cobbled together the functional equivalent of this with Btrfs snapshots for / and /home so I can do either complete resets or just rollback to previous states, while keeping /home moving forward.