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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by lj3 on Saturday November 05, 2016 @06:36PM (#12882303)
> It's not that installing Linux is a hassle. I just love a lot of the apps I can run on my Mac.

I think that's a huge X factor a lot of the latest discussions are missing. People LOVE MacOS apps. They're beautiful. They work well. They're typically fast. They're user friendly. Windows and Linux apps are none of those things. In my experience, Mac users don't mind paying for Mac apps because they tend to be of high quality. Windows and Linux users won't pay for apps unless they absolutely have to because the quality of the available apps varies so much.

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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by sylv3r on Saturday November 05, 2016 @07:50PM (#12882566)
> People LOVE MacOS apps

While true, a lot of us can live with less beautiful machines and software especially if the prettier machine makes us break our workflow (ie how to vim without an esc button)

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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by splintercell on Saturday November 05, 2016 @09:53PM (#12883025)
Even if you have an escape key, you shouldn't really be using the physical Escape key for Esc, it's against the philosophy of Vim.
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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by NelsonMinar on Saturday November 05, 2016 @07:24PM (#12882470)
"X factor". 11/10 would pun again.
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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by lj3 on Saturday November 05, 2016 @07:31PM (#12882489)
And here I thought my jokes were wasted on hacker news. :)
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