3 ms·
Recently the hard drive in my Mac became inaccessible to MacOS even after formatting and a lot of other things. Somehow it was able to install Linux though, so
by brainbag 5y ago
Recently the hard drive in my Mac became inaccessible to MacOS even after formatting and a lot of other things. Somehow it was able to install Linux though, so I did that while waiting on the new drive to arrive. I tried a number of different distributions, and I had the experience you describe. It was death by UX papercuts and I could not wait to get back to MacOS by the second day. I hadn't used Linux in a decade outside of ssh to remote servers, and I really had high hopes for improvements in the UX since I last used it.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoPlaying with a distribution for 10 minutes and then installing another one is not going to make you understand it. It took me a while to take to KDE too. After you start actually working on it you'll find things that annoy you, start looking and find that there's actually a wealth of configuration options (which macOS absolutely doesn't have). If you want something more Mac-like, Gnome is a thing of course but it's too opinionated like Mac for me.
- brainbag 5y agoBeing dismissive of the UX of Linux isn't going to improve the market share of Linux for ex Apple people. I wish Linux was more on par because I don't like where Apple is taking MacOS. It wasn't ten minutes, and there were way too many configuration options that I couldn't fix (like the terrible trackpad scrolling) despite best efforts that it wasn't worth it, and too many that I didn't want to bother. The point is that out of the box, the UX of the Linux UIs has historically and still does suck compared to tools that have a UX focus, and that's a deal breaker for a lot of people that I know.