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While OSX might be expensive it is such a pleasure to use!

tobyhinloopen 8y ago
I agree. OSX user here as well. It's the "least bad" option IMO if budget isn't much of an issue. If OSX wouldn't exist, I would likely try Linux, get sick of it, try Windows, get even more frustrated, and get back to Linux. It is very likely I'd be using ElementaryOS or Ubuntu Desktop in the end.
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microcolonel 8y ago
As a Linux user, I find macOS infuriating. As soon as you change a setting, your chances of something breaking increase dramatically. The window manager is sometimes okay, but other times infuriating (maximize vs. zoom vs. "fullscreen" vs. actual fullscreen), and has major bugs in every release ranging from funny (the underglow for windows in Exposé being somewhere other than under the window you're hovering over) to day-ruining (hard killing the application you're switching to, sometimes [saw this with 10.11 a few times]). Worst of all, they insist on changing everything every couple years, and given the kinds of bugs they tend to introduce while doing this, I suspect they are repeatedly rewriting the whole window manager, almost from scratch, for seemingly no reason. Now, that's not to say that X11 desktop environments are all sunshine and rainbows but at least a) if you like it the way it is, you can probably keep it exactly as it is with no consequences, and b) you can always choose something simpler, where there's less to go wrong. I went with option b here, I've been using mostly the same version of the same lightweight window manager since 2012, it is just fine, it isn't ever sluggish on any machine, and it isn't "too little" for my workstation. I use it on OpenBSD as well, and when I tried out MINIX 3 in 2013, it wasn't any effort to use exactly the same window manager. There are no commits in it (mine is a fork, but it didn't really need to be) since February 2016, because it didn't need to change.

I agree. OSX user here as well. It's the "least bad" option IMO if budget isn't much of an issue. If OSX wouldn't exist, I would likely try Linux, get sick of it, try Windows, get even more frustrated, and get back to Linux. It is very likely I'd be using ElementaryOS or Ubuntu Desktop in the end.

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microcolonel 8y ago

As a Linux user, I find macOS infuriating. As soon as you change a setting, your chances of something breaking increase dramatically. The window manager is sometimes okay, but other times infuriating (maximize vs. zoom vs. "fullscreen" vs. actual fullscreen), and has major bugs in every release ranging from funny (the underglow for windows in Exposé being somewhere other than under the window you're hovering over) to day-ruining (hard killing the application you're switching to, sometimes [saw this with 10.11 a few times]). Worst of all, they insist on changing everything every couple years, and given the kinds of bugs they tend to introduce while doing this, I suspect they are repeatedly rewriting the whole window manager, almost from scratch, for seemingly no reason. Now, that's not to say that X11 desktop environments are all sunshine and rainbows but at least a) if you like it the way it is, you can probably keep it exactly as it is with no consequences, and b) you can always choose something simpler, where there's less to go wrong. I went with option b here, I've been using mostly the same version of the same lightweight window manager since 2012, it is just fine, it isn't ever sluggish on any machine, and it isn't "too little" for my workstation. I use it on OpenBSD as well, and when I tried out MINIX 3 in 2013, it wasn't any effort to use exactly the same window manager. There are no commits in it (mine is a fork, but it didn't really need to be) since February 2016, because it didn't need to change.