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I switched off Mac years ago. My servers run Linux. Not bsd. Having to deal with this sort of stuff is just a waste of time. Mac's don't have a monopoly on q
by waheoo 6y ago
I switched off Mac years ago.
My servers run Linux. Not bsd.
Having to deal with this sort of stuff is just a waste of time.
Mac's don't have a monopoly on quality, haven't for a long time.
And since it's a usual response, anyone claiming Linux is too fiddly haven't used it in a long time. And while it can be if you want to roll your own DE its completely optional. Using something like fedora you can literally do almost everything non developer based with point and click.
- fakedang 6y agoI moved to Linux last month. I currently run Windows, Linux and MacOS VM on my machine. From being a Windows guy through all the years, I've found myself increasingly using Linux in this span of time. The only thing preventing me from a complete switch is MS Office. I barely used MacOS, except to diagnose issues on MacOS and run XCode.
- edelacruz 6y agoMay I ask what linux you are using and how you got a Mac VM running? I tried myself and was able to get Catalina running on Ubuntu 20.04 using Openboot. But then Catalina updated itself and crashed after that. I wasn't able to reinstall MacOS successfully anymore, even starting from scratch. If you could help me out by pointing out which products/technologies you used and maybe a website describing step by step, that would be great.
- fakedang 6y agoUbuntu system. Firstly, I disabled updates, not because of Mac in particular, but I've had issues with Windows updates crashing before, so I don't eagerly update. Apart from that, standard QEMU process. This was the guide I used: https://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/how-to-install-macos-catalina-on-linux https://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/how-to-install-macos-catali...
- edelacruz 6y agoThanks. I'll give it another try.
- blkhawk 6y agoI moved to Linux in early 2019 and was surprised that I barely needed Windows anymore. I was already using Libre Office so Ms Office wasn't a sticking point for me. I assume you tried Libre office and its probably not compatible enough for you. Ms Office is very compatible with Wine - even the newer ones. The only problems seem to be with apps were direct replacements like Skype or are irrelevant like OneDrive. For setting up wine and managing my apps I use Lutris. It is meant for games but is brilliant for setting up windows apps as well. I wish they would acknowledge that fact in their UI but it doesn't bother me too much that everything is called a game.
- fakedang 6y agoI didn't enjoy Libre Office, largely due to the functionality being too low. I work with Excel spreadsheets with lots of macros and formulae, which doesn't port well over to Libre Office.
- waheoo 6y agoI can understand this, I make do with Google sheets but it's seriously limited with my bigger spreadsheets, especially if there is lots of custom code / API response parsing involved.
- girvo 6y agoHave you tried the web based office? I haven’t, and I’m not sure if it’s a good solution, but friends have said good things
- fakedang 6y agoI use Excel pretty intensively, learnt all the shortcuts from my past finance days. I don't think the web version allows for those back-of-the-hand shortcuts.
- mtzaldo 6y agoFedora is the new Ubuntu
- _alex_ 6y agoI haven't touched fedora in a couple years. what's going on there?
- mtzaldo 6y agoin my case, they ship a almost up to date kernel, they don't use snaps, vanilla gnome, the distro is very stable. The linux community I follow also likes where the distro is going and the overall "Fedora philosophy".
- girvo 6y agoThat sounds exactly like what I’m looking for. Does it have an equivalent to “umake” for installing latest-version dev tools?