If you don't switch, are you going to use only Apple products your entire life from now? Seriously?
There are many, many devs right now who is switching from MacBooks to Linux machines because Linux on the desktop is really nice (just not perfect), and you suddenly feel very much alive again when you don't sit and wait for Apple to fix your problems. You fix them yourself, and you no longer care for the next version of IOS or the next MacBook etc.
t's freedom, honestly, truly. You are single again. You have left the bad relationship. You are free and happy. So much choice all of a sudden. It's great!
Ah yes wait one, I had to activate the keyboard switch for the webcam to be detected, but that would have been the same on another os.
I have been a Mac user for less time (~16 years for me) than the previous commenter. I have lost confidence in Apple's ability to deliver:
a. a quality laptop that can get the job done, and
b. a quality OS that I can trust to just work.
I am typing this to you from a Dell XPS 9560 because the 2016 MBP w/Touch Bar has been such a shitshow.
It's been in for repairs THREE TIMES. Between the 2nd and 3rd trip, I switched back to Windows and installed WSL (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10)
Windows, VERY ironically, has proven WAY more stable and reliable than macOS. <-- that blows my mind.
I HAVE tried to sell my MBP even at a significant discount over the purchase price. (bought for $4300, I'm asking $3000 and even lowered to $2500) NO BITES. The machine is in immaculate condition, too.
I would be surprised if the other commenter has not had a similar experience.
If Apple is going to be as mediocre as everyone else, then there's absolutely NO POINT to the price premium, and they won't hold their value like they used to.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think that your problem is that the secondary market doesn't care about specs. They care about the Apple logo on the back, for the most part. So your extra RAM and bigger SSD aren't features to them. They just see the cost is $1000-$1500 more than they could buy a new one for.
The giant trackpad is a huge complaint of mine I don't hear a lot. Why on Earth would apple make it so big??
We definitely seem to be in the minority though, I've heard more complaints that the XPS 15 trackpad is too small than complaints that the Mac trackpad is too large.
It happens maybe once a month for me, not nearly enough complain for me. Personally I love the size of it.
But if I remember to quit Docker ok once I am done with it, I don't see this problem.
What userspace is is where you work happens. It has no universal obligation to protect the kernel.
You could possibly say that the point of working in userspace (instead of in kernel space) is to protect the kernel.
In the latter case, sorry. I honestly agree I should have caught that.
In the first case my thought process goes as follows (hoping someone knowledgeable will correct me):
- user space may very well contain hostile processes (trojans, rootkits, - even intentionally in the case where a user inspects malware in some kind of container or chroot environment.
- user space may contain mechanisms that attempts to protect the kernel, but a typical kernel (linux, and I guess most other free kernels) cannot rely on it.
- I tried searching for userspace protect kernel and the closest thing I found was the act of separating userspace from kernel space protects the kernel which is what I tried to point out in my post above.
1. The Touch Bar is appalling if you're at all a touch typist. It puts destructive actions just an accidental brush of the finger tip away. 2. The keyboard is failing all over the place. My left command key has fallen off, and three keys occasionally stick resulting in double entries. 3. The trackpad is so big that there's nowhere to rest one hand while you scroll with the other, resulting in exposé happening when you're just trying to scroll a web page. 4. It crashes a LOT. I reckon roughly one kernel panic a week since I've owned it.
It's absolutely killed my confidence in Apple hardware and after owning Macs for over 20 years I doubt I'll ever buy a Mac again. It's made me a permanently angry person.