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If other laptops would easily, without a hack run MacOS, I would switch on a heartbeat, but that's not the case. I'm not married to the hardware, but I'm marrie

by ibdf 8y ago

If other laptops would easily, without a hack run MacOS, I would switch on a heartbeat, but that's not the case. I'm not married to the hardware, but I'm married to the software. I use Windows 10 and MacOS at work, and unfortunately I'm much happier with MacOS, and find myself using Windows only for tools that are not available on MacOS.

bpye 8y ago
Out of interest what does Windows 10 with WSL not give you?
- kranner 8y ago
  Not GP, but iOS development is the biggest reason I can't switch.
- e1ven 8y ago
  At the last three jobs I've had Windows machines weren't allowed, only Mac or Linux. The tooling/infrastructure wasn't in place to support Windows machines in our corporate environment, and internal IT didn't know how to use them.
- ibdf 8y ago
  The terminal and all tools that are built for it. After enabling WSL, my computer performance went down a whole lot. File permissions issues between the two systems were constant, and I typically spent more time troubleshooting things than actually doing work. I think I wouldn't mind having a Windows as a personal PC, but not as my work computer. When I'm at work I just want to get work done and not troubleshoot the operating system.
  - eropple 8y ago
    To be honest - if you don't require Adobe or Xcode, I've had great luck moving almost full-time to Fedora. I still have a Mac...but it's pretty much only for Logic Pro X.
chewz 8y ago
Well, I have successfully replaced macOS with ChromeOS on my MacBook plus Debian in terminal via crouton. And I am quite happy about it. I can have flatpack apps and even have Virtualbox preinstalled so I could have run macOS or Windows if I had to. Apple software is total crap in my humble opinion while hardware is still superior.
- wildrhythms 8y ago
  Can you recommend a decent guide/starting point for other folks looking to do something similar?
Doxin 8y ago
You should really give ubuntu a try. While it won't run MacOS-only apps it'll have equivalents, and is otherwise scarily similar to MacOS.

by ibdf 8y ago

bpye 8y ago

Out of interest what does Windows 10 with WSL not give you?

kranner 8y ago
Not GP, but iOS development is the biggest reason I can't switch.
e1ven 8y ago
At the last three jobs I've had Windows machines weren't allowed, only Mac or Linux. The tooling/infrastructure wasn't in place to support Windows machines in our corporate environment, and internal IT didn't know how to use them.
ibdf 8y ago
The terminal and all tools that are built for it. After enabling WSL, my computer performance went down a whole lot. File permissions issues between the two systems were constant, and I typically spent more time troubleshooting things than actually doing work. I think I wouldn't mind having a Windows as a personal PC, but not as my work computer. When I'm at work I just want to get work done and not troubleshoot the operating system.
- eropple 8y ago
  To be honest - if you don't require Adobe or Xcode, I've had great luck moving almost full-time to Fedora. I still have a Mac...but it's pretty much only for Logic Pro X.

chewz 8y ago

Well, I have successfully replaced macOS with ChromeOS on my MacBook plus Debian in terminal via crouton. And I am quite happy about it. I can have flatpack apps and even have Virtualbox preinstalled so I could have run macOS or Windows if I had to. Apple software is total crap in my humble opinion while hardware is still superior.

wildrhythms 8y ago
Can you recommend a decent guide/starting point for other folks looking to do something similar?

Doxin 8y ago

You should really give ubuntu a try. While it won't run MacOS-only apps it'll have equivalents, and is otherwise scarily similar to MacOS.