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A relatively smooth desktop experience and nice client apps, baseline security at the hardware level, and still the ability to get under the hood to a shell. W
by atonse 6y ago
A relatively smooth desktop experience and nice client apps, baseline security at the hardware level, and still the ability to get under the hood to a shell.
Windows does this now with WSL2 especially, but the desktop experience still has a lot of cruft left over.
I do look with envy at the choice of hardware on the Windows side though. Especially on the desktop side.
- noir_lord 6y agoBeen using OSX since just after xmas (work issued the new macbook pro) alongside Fedora (all my machines) and there really isn't any difference in terms of a "smooth desktop experience" which is a credit to Fedora and Cinnamon really. There are things I like about both platforms and things I dislike but I'm productive as a developer on either and mostly they feel the same. At home if I want to do some dev I'm more likely to reach for my thinkpad though because I prefer the keyboard and it runs a lot cooler on my knee.
- AsyncAwait 6y agoFrom experience I wouldn't call macOS a smooth experience personally, especially not 10.13, but I realize it depends if you ran into bugs personally or not.
- gumby 6y agoYou seem to be quite unhappy with it. Why do you use it at all? There are plenty of programming domains where other systems rule.
- AsyncAwait 6y agoNot by choice. I do sometimes have to use it at work as MacBooks is what they provide. Luckily, I didn't need to use a macOS machine for a couple of months now thanks to lockdown and us being allowed to use own hardware at home.