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For me the Mac is nice because its command line almost matches a linux setup. I use it because it is like a pretty Linux GUI. However finder and preview in 10.7
by kghose 13y ago
For me the Mac is nice because its command line almost matches a linux setup. I use it because it is like a pretty Linux GUI. However finder and preview in 10.7 have some annoying glitches that I really find annoying. For example, in preview you can no longer simply save a document you have to export/duplicate what not. Finder has an annoying habit of trying to be too clever: if you hover a set of files over a folder it will helpfully change the finder window to epxose more of the target folder. Unfortunately this will change the finder geometry causing me to often miss the target of my drop.
The OS is sufficiently different from Linux to be annoying in crucial moments when I have too look up why a certain command does not work, or works differently.
Also, bsd/linux source code compiling often work, but sometimes don't making things more annoying than if they never worked and you knew what to expect.
Wait: I was just ranting. And yet I'm a mac user.
- AdrianRossouw 13y agomy favorite is how they have a stupidly ridiculously low ulimit maxfiles of 256.. and keep on changing the way to persist it between os releases. unless it's something unixey i use every day, i now just refuse to bother with installing it on OSX. a VM is so much easier.
- kghose 13y agoHey, which VM do you use and what kind of a performance hit is there?
- berntb 13y ago>>its command line almost matches a linux setup. Grumble, the most important feature isn't as good -- apt. Otherwise, I might switch back.
- revscat 13y ago.I have had more luck with Homebrew than I did with apt: my experience has been that brew handles dependencies better.