Re:Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken
by bertiewhykovich on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:06PM
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I dunno, man -- I feel like constant user-experience problems, bizarre hardware issues, and endless configuration tweaking is both unreliable and bullshit. I often contemplate switching to a Linux system, even if just for a change of pace, but I can't justify giving up a platform that allows me to get the vast majority of what I need to do done without waging war against some other programmer's neuroses.
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It's really about what you're used to using. I tend to have more problems when I'm using macOS than Linux.
Re:Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken
by bertiewhykovich on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:11PM
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That's very fair. Most of my non-work computing tends to follow typical consumer trends, and most of my work computing isn't meaningfully compromised by running macOS over Linux (now that VMs are usable, at least) -- but I can imagine that if I depended on applications that don't have clear macOS equivalents that Linux would seem far more "reliable and no-bullshit" to me.
That beings said, the vast majority of consumers, and I suspect the vast majority of developers, do not rely on such applications (or their equivalent w/r/t Windows).