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I've been entirely on Linux for over fifteen years now. And I used to develop for Win32.
by Animats 2y ago
I've been entirely on Linux for over fifteen years now. And I used to develop for Win32.
- safety1st 2y agoSame here! I'd love to know why the author keeps crawling back to Mac after trying Linux. I feel grateful that Linux exists and would never contemplate moving away from it. I totally understand that I am an esoteric techie and other people may have different experiences, of course. But in the ~14 years Linux has been my daily driver, it has improved so much.
- geniium 2y agofor me the main reason is that mac just works. I spent less time configuring my OS and tinkering around and just focus on my work.
- worthless-trash 2y agoIs it just because you can't on a mac ?
- geniium 2y agowhat do u mean?
- worthless-trash 2y agoThere are choices and source available for Linux, not so much for tooling on osx.
- bhaak 2y agoFor low levels of "it just works". Every major OS update Apple changes something that breaks either specific programs or restricts the OS further which leads to breakage. The "too many files open" error could be fixed by raising the limit of open files (there are instances where a tool really does need lots of open files and isn't leaking) but nowadays I need to break the security of my own hardware to maybe be able to raise it as Apple adds hoops and is changing what to do every so often.
- geniium 2y agoyou're right - lately mac seems to have been doing bad moves. In "lately" I mean since 5-10 years
- adastra22 2y agoMost people I know who are 100% Linux users are like you. They don’t know what they are missing, and they are happy.
- dismalaf 2y agoWhat do you think Linux users are missing?
- adastra22 2y agoBetter UI/UX.
- geniium 2y agoand the "it simply works" feeling
- worthless-trash 2y agoaka, the apple lie.
- dismalaf 2y agoInstall a modern distro. It does just work. I've literally done zero config to my laptop, nothing has broken or not worked. Literally everything works. Touchpad, touchscreen, webcam, fingerprint reader, stylus, suspend, audio, etc...