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This whole release cycle is just one gigantic facepalm after another. I am feeling pretty heavily smug that I got rid of my Apple kit earlier this year because

by qz2 6y ago

This whole release cycle is just one gigantic facepalm after another. I am feeling pretty heavily smug that I got rid of my Apple kit earlier this year because I wasn't happy with the direction of the platform.

lostlogin 6y ago
What did you move to?
- qz2 6y ago
  Fedora on Thinkpad + custom desktop.
- PKop 6y ago
  I did the same about a year ago. Thinkpad running Manjaro GNOME Works fine, haven't looked back.
- SomeHacker44 6y ago
  Windows 10 and WSL. Have not found a good successor to Devonthink Pro though.
- stuzenz 6y ago
  Thinkpad T460p on arch linux for me (after getting macbook pro 2017 15 inch keyboard issues followed with cablegate immediately afterwards). The T460p is a 2016/17 secondhand machine which cost USD235 which I then added a ram upgrade and a new 72Wh battery to. I don't miss the mbp at all and prefer the linux OS anyway. It probably took me until this moment to realise I was largely falling for marketing in thinking only the best specs would do ...
- BatteryMountain 6y ago
  Customize the hell out of Fedora. It is rock solid on most hardware. Once you get used to it, you won't want to use anything else.
- midrus 6y ago
  Same here, fedora on a thinkpad t14s. Couldn't be happier.
- kvz 6y ago
  Played it safe with an XPS + Ubuntu https://kvz.io/tobuntu.html https://kvz.io/tobuntu.html
submeta 6y ago
I have gotten rid of almost any Apple only tools (OmniGraffle to Figma; OmniFocus, Things3, iA Writer, Ulysses, Alfred App to Emacs+Org, and some more), but there is only only a few left that I can‘t find a replacement for in Linux-land: DEVONthink for managing my thousands of documents (actually I just keep my files in DEVONthink and use the search feature, could end up using just file system), ScanSnap Manager (a driver for my Fujitsu Scanner plus a desktop app for scannning the documents, and Spotlight search that works from within every other app for instantly finding any document. I guess I need to get a Thinkpad running Linux for slowly finding replacments for my tools, and migrate not within weeks, but spreading my migration process over months. My most essential tool is Emacs / Org and Lisp, Python plus the terminal with some shell scripting for automating all my workflows. Yes, I will miss the smoothness that comes from very tight integration of hardware and services, but I absolutely hate the path that Apple is on, slowly taking all freedom from its users, until macOS is as closed as iOS. This is against every conviction I have as a citizen for whose freedom it is essential to have control over the machine that enables me to connect to the world and do my work. We are no toddlers, Apple does not need to put us in a walled garden, a promised land without any malware and danger (that‘s the promise, but in reality they want to control every aspect of their ecosystem, like an emperor that wants to tax every aspect of acting and movement in his land).
- noob1234 6y ago
  What did you replace Things and iA Writer with?
  - submeta 6y ago
    Emacs + Org-mode (once mastered) are excellent for both writing structured text (in org-mode‘s markup instead of markdown), and for managing tasks and projects. With org-mode I have dozens of files for managing my projects and tasks. And I can mix notes with tasks. This is a feature that makes it exceptional. When I was using Things3 I liked the tiny section beneath the task description where I could type some notes about the task. With orgmode I can write a full outline beneath the task description. Emacs is extremely flexible as it can be extended with packages written in Lisp. There are packages that allow me to navigate to any outline node in my ~ 200 org files within a second (ivy + counsel + ripgrep-integration, also org-ql which allows me to query my org files). Also, I write large amounts of text with org-mode (it’s an excellent outliner too; been previously using OmniOutline) and convert to markdown or any other format via pandoc. Emacs, once mastered is an application framework that allows me automate any workflow for which I previously used AppleScript, DEVONthink, Python, Bash.

by qz2 6y ago

lostlogin 6y ago

What did you move to?

qz2 6y ago
Fedora on Thinkpad + custom desktop.
PKop 6y ago
I did the same about a year ago. Thinkpad running Manjaro GNOME Works fine, haven't looked back.
SomeHacker44 6y ago
Windows 10 and WSL. Have not found a good successor to Devonthink Pro though.
stuzenz 6y ago
Thinkpad T460p on arch linux for me (after getting macbook pro 2017 15 inch keyboard issues followed with cablegate immediately afterwards). The T460p is a 2016/17 secondhand machine which cost USD235 which I then added a ram upgrade and a new 72Wh battery to. I don't miss the mbp at all and prefer the linux OS anyway. It probably took me until this moment to realise I was largely falling for marketing in thinking only the best specs would do ...
BatteryMountain 6y ago
Customize the hell out of Fedora. It is rock solid on most hardware. Once you get used to it, you won't want to use anything else.
midrus 6y ago
Same here, fedora on a thinkpad t14s. Couldn't be happier.
kvz 6y ago
Played it safe with an XPS + Ubuntu https://kvz.io/tobuntu.html https://kvz.io/tobuntu.html

submeta 6y ago

I have gotten rid of almost any Apple only tools (OmniGraffle to Figma; OmniFocus, Things3, iA Writer, Ulysses, Alfred App to Emacs+Org, and some more), but there is only only a few left that I can‘t find a replacement for in Linux-land: DEVONthink for managing my thousands of documents (actually I just keep my files in DEVONthink and use the search feature, could end up using just file system), ScanSnap Manager (a driver for my Fujitsu Scanner plus a desktop app for scannning the documents, and Spotlight search that works from within every other app for instantly finding any document. I guess I need to get a Thinkpad running Linux for slowly finding replacments for my tools, and migrate not within weeks, but spreading my migration process over months. My most essential tool is Emacs / Org and Lisp, Python plus the terminal with some shell scripting for automating all my workflows. Yes, I will miss the smoothness that comes from very tight integration of hardware and services, but I absolutely hate the path that Apple is on, slowly taking all freedom from its users, until macOS is as closed as iOS. This is against every conviction I have as a citizen for whose freedom it is essential to have control over the machine that enables me to connect to the world and do my work. We are no toddlers, Apple does not need to put us in a walled garden, a promised land without any malware and danger (that‘s the promise, but in reality they want to control every aspect of their ecosystem, like an emperor that wants to tax every aspect of acting and movement in his land).

noob1234 6y ago
What did you replace Things and iA Writer with?
- submeta 6y ago
  Emacs + Org-mode (once mastered) are excellent for both writing structured text (in org-mode‘s markup instead of markdown), and for managing tasks and projects. With org-mode I have dozens of files for managing my projects and tasks. And I can mix notes with tasks. This is a feature that makes it exceptional. When I was using Things3 I liked the tiny section beneath the task description where I could type some notes about the task. With orgmode I can write a full outline beneath the task description. Emacs is extremely flexible as it can be extended with packages written in Lisp. There are packages that allow me to navigate to any outline node in my ~ 200 org files within a second (ivy + counsel + ripgrep-integration, also org-ql which allows me to query my org files). Also, I write large amounts of text with org-mode (it’s an excellent outliner too; been previously using OmniOutline) and convert to markdown or any other format via pandoc. Emacs, once mastered is an application framework that allows me automate any workflow for which I previously used AppleScript, DEVONthink, Python, Bash.