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I run multiple OSes as part of my job. The small investment in VMWare Fusion was worth it but I still need some dedicated machines. I just have a few issues:
by 0xff00ffee 6y ago
I run multiple OSes as part of my job.
The small investment in VMWare Fusion was worth it but I still need some dedicated machines.
I just have a few issues:
Problem #1: Disk space requirements. I have a late 2013 MBP and windows gobbles up a min 60GB for the image, which is 1/4th my SDD. This is why I ended up buying cheap beige boxes for every other OS (or AWS).
Problem #2: Clipboard on VMWare is a trainwreck. Same goes for VNC and Microsoft Remote Desktop which I also use. My workaround is to use a text file on my router's USB drive so that I cut and paste through that in each OS.
----> I would pay someone $1,000 to come to my house and fix my clipboard problems.
Problem #3a: The magic mouse blows chunks on anything but macOS. And even running Excel on macOS is impossible with a magic mouse. The left-right slop makes it difficult to scroll vertically without drifting diagonally... I don't know how macOS apps solve that.
Problem #3b: I would kill for a mouse with a real middle button, not a scroll+button. Unix/X middle click paste is a feature I sorely miss on macOS and Windows.
- _bxg1 6y agoYou know you can use regular mice on macs, right?
- 0xff00ffee 6y agoI explain how I'm running on 3 OSes and you actually think I don't know that?
- _bxg1 6y ago> I would kill for a mouse with a real middle button
- 0xff00ffee 6y agoYour reading skills are atrocious. > ... not a scroll+button. Unix/X middle click paste is a feature I sorely miss on macOS and Windows.
- _bxg1 6y agoAnd you're an extremely rude person. You phrased it in context like you thought using a Mac was preventing you from using a mouse with a middle button, especially when it was right after the section complaining about the Magic Mouse.
- bitwize 6y agoMiddle-click paste is one of X's many usability fails, especially since it's a convention adopted by no other UI. All the rest assume a max of 2 essential buttons. Command-C and Command-V are just so much better. Learn to love them.
- thomaslord 6y agoI don't know the implementation details behind this, but it also seems to me that Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V has a separate clipboard while middle-click-to-paste pastes whatever is selected. Makes no sense to me but I've tried to Ctrl-C / middle click and had issues before. Just one more thing that makes it worse.
- bitwize 6y agoOn X, yes. Which makes X usability even more of a pain in the ass.
- MonaroVXR 6y agoYou can buy an Windows or Linux "computer" and run MacOS in a virtualmachine. VMWare Workstation is great for it. You can do it also with Virtualbox or KVM. But the latter doesn't have "hardware acceleration" support.