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"Everything works" :D Yeah, try to use an external non-Apple mouse with your macbook - your mouse will scroll in the opposite direction - changing it in settin

"Everything works" :D Yeah, try to use an external non-Apple mouse with your macbook - your mouse will scroll in the opposite direction - changing it in setting will reverse the direction of your touchpad. Additional buttons will also not work. or try to connect an android phone to your macbook via USB-C. You will not be able to access the file system to copy files or do anything else. Printing doesn't work, unless you use Airprint... which will require you do disconnect from internet... Half of Apple devices use USB-C and half of them - obsolete Lightning cable... Many people have issues with Airpods connecting to the closed macbook. and I don't even talk about Docker working 20x times slower than on windows and 100x slower than on Linux.

lucideer 4y ago
> try to use an external non-Apple mouse with your macbook - your mouse will scroll in the opposite direction I use a Logitech mouse with my macbooks. Natural scrolling is available in Windows & Linux these days (as it's a user preference many have grown to prefer of late, on all platforms). I also use a Magic Touchpad 2 with a Linux machine & changing natural scrolling settings there will also affect both mouse & touchpad equally, so not sure which of this is specifically a mac problem? This is an odd complaint - scrolling on macbook touchpads presumably works in reverse to your own non-mac machine but you don't seem to have noticed? > Additional buttons will also not work. wfm ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ have had more issues on Linux here: all the many ways to get them to work do work fine I think, they're just a lot of fiddling. Piper's a cool project but doesn't seem to support many models in practice, GHub installation is patchy, which leaves fiddling with XOrg/xmodmap... if you're not on Wayland... > connect an android phone to your macbook via USB-C I've done this a lot to use adb, but haven't had a lot of need to copy files directly, so haven't noticed this issue. Does it just not show in Finder as a device or is it some deeper issue? Is it related to the USB connection mode in Android's settings? > Printing doesn't work wfm ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Never used AirPrint. Dunno what that is. > obsolete Lightning cable... True. This is awful. As are all of Apple's (many) hw lock-in practices. > don't even talk about Docker working 20x times slower Entirely a docker problem. --- I'm contradicting a lot of your points but generally Apple are terrible in many ways. No disagreement there (and as I said one of them is usability). It's a trade-off though & in my experience (& I hear most people's) one of the things they do get right more often than others are things "just working". Windows actually used to be better at this I feel (did I imagine this?), but maybe regressed.

lucideer 4y ago

> try to use an external non-Apple mouse with your macbook - your mouse will scroll in the opposite direction I use a Logitech mouse with my macbooks. Natural scrolling is available in Windows & Linux these days (as it's a user preference many have grown to prefer of late, on all platforms). I also use a Magic Touchpad 2 with a Linux machine & changing natural scrolling settings there will also affect both mouse & touchpad equally, so not sure which of this is specifically a mac problem? This is an odd complaint - scrolling on macbook touchpads presumably works in reverse to your own non-mac machine but you don't seem to have noticed? > Additional buttons will also not work. wfm ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ have had more issues on Linux here: all the many ways to get them to work do work fine I think, they're just a lot of fiddling. Piper's a cool project but doesn't seem to support many models in practice, GHub installation is patchy, which leaves fiddling with XOrg/xmodmap... if you're not on Wayland... > connect an android phone to your macbook via USB-C I've done this a lot to use adb, but haven't had a lot of need to copy files directly, so haven't noticed this issue. Does it just not show in Finder as a device or is it some deeper issue? Is it related to the USB connection mode in Android's settings? > Printing doesn't work wfm ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Never used AirPrint. Dunno what that is. > obsolete Lightning cable... True. This is awful. As are all of Apple's (many) hw lock-in practices. > don't even talk about Docker working 20x times slower Entirely a docker problem. --- I'm contradicting a lot of your points but generally Apple are terrible in many ways. No disagreement there (and as I said one of them is usability). It's a trade-off though & in my experience (& I hear most people's) one of the things they do get right more often than others are things "just working". Windows actually used to be better at this I feel (did I imagine this?), but maybe regressed.