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I upgraded from a 2015 MacBook Pro to a 2019 16”. I heard there were tons of keyboard issues in the years in between. Aside from that, I stick with MacBooks bec

I upgraded from a 2015 MacBook Pro to a 2019 16”. I heard there were tons of keyboard issues in the years in between. Aside from that, I stick with MacBooks because of the solid quality and macOS. I can’t work on Windows. I’ve tried again and again. I do have a windows machine for gaming, but programming and design work, the short cuts, fluidity, and general experience working in iTerm2 with multiple desktops is top notch. There’s nothing really to “fix” or make better. All my software on macOS is also top quality. I don’t know of a replacement for Omnigraffle or Omnifocus. I had a recent fun project where I needed to install Python and a bunch of Python tooling and libraries (Jupyter, matplotlib, numpy, pandas, etc). Setting PATH on Windows is one of the most bizarre things. And even then I could not get everything to work. There were weird version conflicts, and this was all trying to use the Linux Subsystem for Windows which was insanely slow. Why can’t I just update one file on my file system from a text editor to update path configuration?

newhna 6y ago
WSL2 is fast, rock-solid and outperforms a Mac with iterm2 by far. I don't know which fluidity you mean on a multi montior setup you lack on Windows. Re short-cuts Windows has more (just think of win+number or built in window management) or autohotkey which owns karabiner. MacOs is good if you need Xcode but other than that? Idk
- tracer4201 6y ago
  > WSL2 is fast, rock-solid and outperforms a Mac with iterm2 by far. You have benchmarks for this? I’m running a Windows Pro installation with a Core i7 4790K and 16GB memory. My 2015 MacBook is much faster. I honestly thought the WSL thing was just a gimmick and some online searching told me that there are IO performance issues.
  - newhna 6y ago
    No benchmarks but I had never issues with WSL2. I on a 8550u with 8gb.
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- tracer4201 6y ago
  I was curious if I was using an older version that led to my problems with WSL2, but I just did a search right now for “WSL 2 slow” on Google. I see threads and discussions in the past couple months with people still calling out how slow it is and other issues.
  - robk 6y ago
    Seems to be around how some people are using filesystem heavily. For iterm2 style use its great
  - kyriakos 6y ago
    Keep in mind that Wsl2 barely came out of public beta so obviously it will have online comments about performance issues when compared with products that don't have a public beta. And yet if you search for it you can find a lot of hits on macos bad performance. Not saying either is better just that the metric you set is inaccurate.
robk 6y ago
Omni focus web app seems to work just fine for me. I love the ios version - never tried Mac

newhna 6y ago

WSL2 is fast, rock-solid and outperforms a Mac with iterm2 by far. I don't know which fluidity you mean on a multi montior setup you lack on Windows. Re short-cuts Windows has more (just think of win+number or built in window management) or autohotkey which owns karabiner. MacOs is good if you need Xcode but other than that? Idk

tracer4201 6y ago
> WSL2 is fast, rock-solid and outperforms a Mac with iterm2 by far. You have benchmarks for this? I’m running a Windows Pro installation with a Core i7 4790K and 16GB memory. My 2015 MacBook is much faster. I honestly thought the WSL thing was just a gimmick and some online searching told me that there are IO performance issues.
- newhna 6y ago
  No benchmarks but I had never issues with WSL2. I on a 8550u with 8gb.
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tracer4201 6y ago
I was curious if I was using an older version that led to my problems with WSL2, but I just did a search right now for “WSL 2 slow” on Google. I see threads and discussions in the past couple months with people still calling out how slow it is and other issues.
- robk 6y ago
  Seems to be around how some people are using filesystem heavily. For iterm2 style use its great
- kyriakos 6y ago
  Keep in mind that Wsl2 barely came out of public beta so obviously it will have online comments about performance issues when compared with products that don't have a public beta. And yet if you search for it you can find a lot of hits on macos bad performance. Not saying either is better just that the metric you set is inaccurate.

robk 6y ago

Omni focus web app seems to work just fine for me. I love the ios version - never tried Mac