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I've both used Macs for decades and at one time worked in enterprise Mac technical support, and I've never seen this stuff happen.
by Exoristos 3y ago
I've both used Macs for decades and at one time worked in enterprise Mac technical support, and I've never seen this stuff happen.
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoI've used multi-monitor dev setups and large screen setups in mac laptops for, christ, 15 years. I've seen all of those things listed. It would be one thing if OSX/Linux/Windows UIs would just stay at their basic usability from around 2010. They haven't. They just get steadily worse. OSX has been the most stable of them, quirks and all, even with a goddamn architecture change, but its closed hardware, a forced upgrade cycle, and bad backwards compatibility. Linux once would just rewrite window managers every 5 years as soon as they got stable, now Linux is rewriting with Wayland and Vulkan, and ... about 5 years in they'll probably start rewriting those once they get a little stable. Windows? Committed UI suicide with the tiles and two desktops thing in Windows 8. Now there's ARM in the future and a break with the only thing it has going for it: backwards compatibility. But yes, everything the author complains about happens in OSX with laptop + monitor / dual monitors, and even without with disappearing mouse cursors.
- d3w4s9 3y agoI haven't used Mac for a while, but I definitely remember the part about window freezing (and requires killing the process) when connecting/disconnecting a external monitor. It's very frustrating. (And I for one hasn't bought a Macbook since 2020 because I am not going to spend at least $1,999 just to get dual monitor support. A $500 asus laptop can do dual monitor without any problem, and it turns out that machine is good enough for my productivity needs. That money is better spent elsewhere)