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Interesinting that some of the tools he installed to "improve" default windows are open-source and also available on linux. Anecdata: about a decade ago I aske

Interesinting that some of the tools he installed to "improve" default windows are open-source and also available on linux. Anecdata: about a decade ago I asked a few colleagues if a mac user would feel more at home using windows or Ubuntu. Answer were almost unanimous: Ubuntu. It is a shame that market needs (hardware, services and software) still makes people need windows.

jvzr 6y ago
I've been a Mac user since 2004. I switched my main computer to Windows right when Windows 10 released, mostly for gaming. Late last year, I've switched to Linux (Manjaro then straight Arch) with a heavily customized, simplified Gnome desktop (to fit my exact needs). In my opinion, for what I need, Linux & Gnome is so much better than Windows 10. And better than Big Sur, I must regretfully add. UX has gone abysmally low with macOS 11, sadly.
- krylon 6y ago
  I have had a similar experience, I got a Mac in 2013, switched back to Linux in 2017. There is one thing I miss - the emacs-keybindings in the system text input widget, that one was awesome. But otherwise, I feel much more at home on Linux with Mate.
lycopodiopsida 6y ago
I was a Linux/FreeBSD user for a decade, before I switched to mac(have it been 8 years already?) and my preference is still mac > FreeBSD > Linux > Windows, fwiw. Working on something which is not *nix seems odd to me and I've always found windows being extremely complicated under the hood.
fomine3 6y ago
GNOME developer loves macOS so the result isn't surprising.
dartharva 6y ago
As a long-time Windows user I clean-installed Ubuntu (Pop!_OS) on my laptop and forced myself to work with it for three days. Had to revert back to Windows yesterday in exasperation: things still looked way too glitchy, it took two entire minutes in general to boot up (Windows takes ~30s), apps like the Brave web browser took another minute to open, GNOME felt actually less customizable than Windows explorer (where you can at least natively move the panel to wherever you want), Bluetooth headphones connected but gave terrible audio quality, Colors on screen got too bright at one instance then too dim at the next, Battery barely lasted an hour, some frustrating apt bug just refused to let me install the software (even from .deb setup files) I wanted, CPU fans ran on full throttle all the time ... I even had to manually download and compile some obscure unmaintained software to create a Windows bootable USB. Windows is universally hated as a meme, but its industry dominance isn't really undeserved. With WSL2 there's much less reason to shift to Linux now.

jvzr 6y ago

I've been a Mac user since 2004. I switched my main computer to Windows right when Windows 10 released, mostly for gaming. Late last year, I've switched to Linux (Manjaro then straight Arch) with a heavily customized, simplified Gnome desktop (to fit my exact needs). In my opinion, for what I need, Linux & Gnome is so much better than Windows 10. And better than Big Sur, I must regretfully add. UX has gone abysmally low with macOS 11, sadly.

krylon 6y ago
I have had a similar experience, I got a Mac in 2013, switched back to Linux in 2017. There is one thing I miss - the emacs-keybindings in the system text input widget, that one was awesome. But otherwise, I feel much more at home on Linux with Mate.

lycopodiopsida 6y ago

I was a Linux/FreeBSD user for a decade, before I switched to mac(have it been 8 years already?) and my preference is still mac > FreeBSD > Linux > Windows, fwiw. Working on something which is not *nix seems odd to me and I've always found windows being extremely complicated under the hood.

fomine3 6y ago

GNOME developer loves macOS so the result isn't surprising.

dartharva 6y ago

As a long-time Windows user I clean-installed Ubuntu (Pop!_OS) on my laptop and forced myself to work with it for three days. Had to revert back to Windows yesterday in exasperation: things still looked way too glitchy, it took two entire minutes in general to boot up (Windows takes ~30s), apps like the Brave web browser took another minute to open, GNOME felt actually less customizable than Windows explorer (where you can at least natively move the panel to wherever you want), Bluetooth headphones connected but gave terrible audio quality, Colors on screen got too bright at one instance then too dim at the next, Battery barely lasted an hour, some frustrating apt bug just refused to let me install the software (even from .deb setup files) I wanted, CPU fans ran on full throttle all the time ... I even had to manually download and compile some obscure unmaintained software to create a Windows bootable USB. Windows is universally hated as a meme, but its industry dominance isn't really undeserved. With WSL2 there's much less reason to shift to Linux now.