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I have a similar beginning story, especially with the wondering what people actually used it for. "Where's the terminal?" My story diverged from yours when one
by hoherd 3y ago
I have a similar beginning story, especially with the wondering what people actually used it for. "Where's the terminal?"
My story diverged from yours when one of my Mac using friends said "Apple is releasing a Unix based OS." I thought "oh please make it Unix with an awesome GUI." I was so tired of working on my GUI in linux instead of working with it. I just wanted Wi-Fi to work, I wanted wake from sleep to work consistently, I didn't want my graphics drivers to break or be so much different to configure on a different device. I wanted a consistent trackpad experience. And Apple delivered. Some of my happiest feelings of my first Mac, the 12" mbp, were about how little I used it because I was able to open it, quickly do what I wanted, and then close it. I had been using Linux as my daily driver, but switched to OS X 10.2.6, and have been there ever since. Between then and now I've used a fair variety of unixes for work, like aix, hpux, solaris, FreeBSD, and linux, and I've never been without at least a few Linux boxes at my house, but I find that the macOS GUI does the best job of getting out of the way so I can get to work.
Every once in a while I try out a Linux GUI, hoping that I'll be compelled to give it a shot as my primary work environment. I have an old Thinkpad that I keep loaded with some desktop flavor, but I always run into things that steer me back to macOS.
- steve1977 3y agoSimilar to my story. I’ve switched to Mac OS X with the first public beta. I was exposed to NeXTSTEP on my job then and loved it. And I was using FreeBSD at home. Then Mac OS X came, basically NeXTSTEP with some FreeBSD and a gorgeous GUI. Shut up and take my money…
- hospitalJail 3y agoIs it really fair to compare a macbook without a GPU and a Linux with a GPU? (EDIT: This is HN, we all know that integrated CPUs/GPUs are not what is referred to as GPU. Please don't be pedantic. )
- pjmlp 3y agoWhat powers the display on any modern computer?
- ubermonkey 3y agoMostly same, yeah. I was on Win95 on laptops in the 90s, and that was a complete dumpster fire. Sleep never worked, long boot times, etc. But at the time, I was mostly producing documents and presentations, and Office was file-format-consistent across both platforms. I saw how a colleague's Powerbook worked, and bought my own. It was a HUGE improvement even though it was pre-OSX. Then the firm tanked, and I went back to coding (LAMP stuff) at about the same time OSX was released. I upgraded and never looked back. Having a machine where zsh is a click away and on which I can ALSO run Excel is wonderful.
- Miraste 3y ago22 years later, and the only one of those problems I haven't seen on Linux recently is broken wifi.