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Maybe a little late at this point but I'm starting to try mac so I thought I'd share. I started trying macos a few weeks ago. If I'm going to go macos, I'm goi
by ddek 5y ago
Maybe a little late at this point but I'm starting to try mac so I thought I'd share.
I started trying macos a few weeks ago. If I'm going to go macos, I'm going to get one of the next macbooks. Before I drop £2.5-3k on a laptop almost entirely for the OS, I want to know if I actually like the OS. I bought the absolute cheapest mac mini with a view to sell it later.
It would take too long to explain why I want to switch, but essentially both windows and linux have different pain points that I'd just lost the will to work around. A key point is multidpi and fractional scaling. Windows is buggy. Linux/xrandr needs no explaination. My experience with wayland was not good.
It sounds trite, but macos just works. This is all I care about. Unlike in win/linux, I can spend my time doing things I care about, rather than configuring my computer. The most significant frustration is there's no way to easily switch windows from the keyboard à la twm. To tile the windows I use rectangle.
On to programming. I'm currently hacking with elixir, which works fine. I'm still using alacritty as my terminal, with fish, and haven't had any problems yet.
If everything continues as it is, at the end of the year I'll sell the mini and by a macbook.