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The problem is that you’re taking a relatively small selection of comments—usually only posted by people who have experienced a problem—and extrapolating an ove

The problem is that you’re taking a relatively small selection of comments—usually only posted by people who have experienced a problem—and extrapolating an overall picture from it that’s probably not that reflective of reality. I use both Linux and MacOS roughly the same amount day-to-day. My experience is that they suffer from various niggly failures and issues to roughly the same extent in practice. I’ve had the Mac sometimes lose Bluetooth connections and need lots of switching things on-and-off to work, in the same way I’ve had NetworkManager drop off wifi with no apparent explanation. Or PulseAudio suddenly deciding to use all my my CPU. Or weird lock screen bugs galore! The products are broadly fine and functional, priced somewhat higher than commodity equivalents but in exchange for benefits which are worth it for some people and not others. I would gently encourage you to consider that other people likely aren’t idiots and are generally making decisions based on their requirements, which in some cases will not match yours!

still_grokking 5y ago
Thanks! First more reasonable answer that doesn't go into OS flamewars. > I would gently encourage you to consider that other people likely aren’t idiots and are generally making decisions based on their requirements, which in some cases will not match yours! That's the core of my question actually! I spelled it even out. I just don't get why reasonable people would buy such things. I'm actually not sure the amount of trouble is the same on average: I'm not reading almost everyday about some obscure catastrophes on Linux (like not working memory management like here, not working mouse or keyboard, not working USB, not working monitors, etc.). The other thing is Apple supports only a fraction of the hardware Linux does. It actually seems they don't do any QA. All that broken stuff shouldn't ever reach end-customers. Especially as mostly all that has to be done is to test against their own products.

still_grokking 5y ago

Thanks! First more reasonable answer that doesn't go into OS flamewars. > I would gently encourage you to consider that other people likely aren’t idiots and are generally making decisions based on their requirements, which in some cases will not match yours! That's the core of my question actually! I spelled it even out. I just don't get why reasonable people would buy such things. I'm actually not sure the amount of trouble is the same on average: I'm not reading almost everyday about some obscure catastrophes on Linux (like not working memory management like here, not working mouse or keyboard, not working USB, not working monitors, etc.). The other thing is Apple supports only a fraction of the hardware Linux does. It actually seems they don't do any QA. All that broken stuff shouldn't ever reach end-customers. Especially as mostly all that has to be done is to test against their own products.