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I love Linux for what it is, for the whole idea, being open, free and "democratic" but I tried using it while my Macbok was in service and oh boy, it's like hav
by b212 6y ago
I love Linux for what it is, for the whole idea, being open, free and "democratic" but I tried using it while my Macbok was in service and oh boy, it's like having a Hackintosh 10 years ago, for work it was bearable but for "personal use"? I'd rather pay 5x more for something that "just works". And I did.
- d2wa 6y agoThe main difference for me is that there are more ways to rescue, recover, fix, and work-around issues. I’m typing this on macOS now. I run into about the same amount of issues on macOS as I do on Linux. The big difference is that I’m just f*ed on macOS whereas Linux leaves me with multiple paths to save myself out of troublesome situations.
- iso1210 6y agoAnd that's exactly why I run linux, because it "just works", and has done for 20 years.
- OJFord 6y agoMy personal machine runs Linux because my professional experience is that macOS doesn't 'just work', and Linux is easier and less opaque to fix. I don't want to trawl through 'have you tried turning it off and on again' on Apple support forums, I want to find the text-based config solution in the Arch wiki, a man page, or unix.SE. (Yes that order, not `man` first, typically. 'Sue me'. Other than for executables I don't find it that 'discoverable' for what's available or might be relevant. I only recently discovered `man [7] hier` - but how was I supposed to know the page is called 'hier' (for hierarchy of course, but even that)? I got it from a unix.SE answer.)
- saagarjha 6y agoThe name apparently comes from "Version 7 AT&T UNIX", which is where the page first appeared.