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Tried using a Mac, hated how the UI got in the way all the time. A few weird quirks with docker were annoying too, including slowness. Now run Linux with LXDE

by osrec 4y ago

Tried using a Mac, hated how the UI got in the way all the time. A few weird quirks with docker were annoying too, including slowness. Now run Linux with LXDE on my 16GB laptop. Everything works well and it's blazingly fast. The UI is simple and functional, but not as beautiful as the MacOS UI. I guess in the beginning we want all the bells and whistles, but with experience, all we want is control. Linux gives me that control to a much greater degree than a Mac.

Aperocky 4y ago
As a mac user, I have no idea what MacOS UI you're referring to is. I live exclusively in terminal or browser, all other apps are opened via terminal and closed with cmd+q. I like macOS because it doesn't get in the way even when I almost never had to interact with Finder (which I still find weird every time I had to use it, for web uploads etc).
- spike021 4y ago
  Same. I constantly use iTerm (or even just the regular MacOS Terminal). It's easy to have it take up the whole screen and the most "MacOS UI" I'll ever see is the title bar for the window, which yeah can be ugly to look at but really isn't something that keeps me from working or anything. I guess IDE's use a ton of UI, but I wouldn't say that's MacOS cruft on its own.
- superkuh 4y ago
  Using a Windows or any of the Linux Distros as a desktop computer you will find that the GUI programs are designed around the idea of a file system, file paths, and generally creating and opening files. On Mac OS X you can use the terminal and be okay. But if you're doing something in the terminal and want to do now combine that with some GUI program, well, good luck. It probably won't even have a way to open files from a folder. The entire filesystem abstraction is hidden and deprecated. It is the core of the Mac OS intended experience.
  - jitl 4y ago
    Wat? `open -a NameOfAppYouWantToUse fileyouWantToOpen.foo` will reliably open a file with whichever app you want. Just `open path/to/directory` will open a Finder window to that directory. The file open dialog in macOS also exists and works just fine. You can drag file icons from GUI apps into terminal windows to insert their absolute path. You can drag files from Finder onto an app icon to open-with that app. Transitioning between terminal workflow and GUI workflow feels better to me on macOS than either Linux or Windows; although with Listary Windows is decent.
- jpcrs 4y ago
  Same experience. For me Finder is simply unusable, not sure if I'm not used to it but the experience is terrible for me. So I prefer to do everything through the terminal or use some TUI like https://github.com/jarun/nnn https://github.com/jarun/nnn The only time that I have to interact with the UI is when I have to do something on System Settings, which is also dreadful.
  - dmix 4y ago
    Yeah, Finder really isn't something you have to use very often (beyond very simply stuff). I mostly use Spotlight to open folders and files, and often use terminal for most moving/copying. The most complicated thing I do in Finder is browsing pictures and installing an Application, both of which is does a perfectly fine job at.
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by osrec 4y ago

Aperocky 4y ago

As a mac user, I have no idea what MacOS UI you're referring to is. I live exclusively in terminal or browser, all other apps are opened via terminal and closed with cmd+q. I like macOS because it doesn't get in the way even when I almost never had to interact with Finder (which I still find weird every time I had to use it, for web uploads etc).

spike021 4y ago
Same. I constantly use iTerm (or even just the regular MacOS Terminal). It's easy to have it take up the whole screen and the most "MacOS UI" I'll ever see is the title bar for the window, which yeah can be ugly to look at but really isn't something that keeps me from working or anything. I guess IDE's use a ton of UI, but I wouldn't say that's MacOS cruft on its own.
superkuh 4y ago
Using a Windows or any of the Linux Distros as a desktop computer you will find that the GUI programs are designed around the idea of a file system, file paths, and generally creating and opening files. On Mac OS X you can use the terminal and be okay. But if you're doing something in the terminal and want to do now combine that with some GUI program, well, good luck. It probably won't even have a way to open files from a folder. The entire filesystem abstraction is hidden and deprecated. It is the core of the Mac OS intended experience.
- jitl 4y ago
  Wat? `open -a NameOfAppYouWantToUse fileyouWantToOpen.foo` will reliably open a file with whichever app you want. Just `open path/to/directory` will open a Finder window to that directory. The file open dialog in macOS also exists and works just fine. You can drag file icons from GUI apps into terminal windows to insert their absolute path. You can drag files from Finder onto an app icon to open-with that app. Transitioning between terminal workflow and GUI workflow feels better to me on macOS than either Linux or Windows; although with Listary Windows is decent.
jpcrs 4y ago
Same experience. For me Finder is simply unusable, not sure if I'm not used to it but the experience is terrible for me. So I prefer to do everything through the terminal or use some TUI like https://github.com/jarun/nnn https://github.com/jarun/nnn The only time that I have to interact with the UI is when I have to do something on System Settings, which is also dreadful.
- dmix 4y ago
  Yeah, Finder really isn't something you have to use very often (beyond very simply stuff). I mostly use Spotlight to open folders and files, and often use terminal for most moving/copying. The most complicated thing I do in Finder is browsing pictures and installing an Application, both of which is does a perfectly fine job at.

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