I don't mind OSX - honestly there's bits of it I do genuinely like. But it's blind-sighted fanboyism that really does the platform harm. > keybindings Honestl

I don't mind OSX - honestly there's bits of it I do genuinely like. But it's blind-sighted fanboyism that really does the platform harm. > keybindings Honestly, I find Mac OS keybindings and keyboard layout the worst thing about using Macs. Yes it might make some sense but when literally every other platform on the planet follows the same standard apart from Apple, it then makes Apple the ugly stepsister regardless of how rational it might be on paper. I mean if you only ever use Macs then I guess you might like it, but for anyone who swaps between systems (or even just wants to use a non-mac keyboard) it can be very annoying. > file history You can have that in Linux > Cmd-? (how do I do that on Linux?) shrugs maybe you can't. But that's just one feature. As a counterargument I could list a dozen things that are in Linux that aren't in OSX. Like up to date core utils and proper package management. Which are just about the two most important things on a dev machine - far more important than Cmd-?. And sure you could install GNU core utils via brew, none of that is part of the default OS X build - which matters because the whole basis of your argument was that OSX has better defaults. Ultimately though I don't see the point in nitpicking each OS - feature by feature. > finding files I'd already disagreed this in my previous post after you made that claim earlier > MacOS can recover from memory pressure fine. How do I get my linux machine not to effectively crash if I run an app that happens to use too much memory (technically it just swaps itself to death, in practice reset is the only remotely timely way to recover)? I've tried any amount of tweaking, but turns out that you can't turn off overcommit and swap completely, even if have lots of memory, things will just break randomly (chrome for example). The problem there is the application. However Linux will just kill the last process that over allocates memory. If you're getting the kind of symptoms you've described then you've either fiddled with your swap file settings (so not running defaults) and/or you're running Linux on some pretty awesome spinning disks while comparing it to nice fast SSDs on OSX. Either way, you're not comparing like for like. > Can you point me at something on linux that comes anywhere close to spotlight/mdfind? There's loads. Krunner, for example, has all the same features as Spotlight plus supports plugins to extend it. For example I can run math calculations in it - which I haven't yet worked out how to do in Spotlight. > For what it's worth: I'm using both linux and macOS daily and am both productive and reasonably expert with both. But do you actually use desktop Linux on modern hardware? Or are you just running Linux on a few servers and guessing about the desktop experience. I ask because your comments were valid about 10 or 15 years ago but really aren't the case any longer. > That is not to say that linux isn't more ergonomic for certain things, but in my experience they tend to be mostly limited to things only programmers would care about This I do wholeheartedly agree with.