Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
by a1369209993 on Monday October 14, 2019 @08:39PM
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This pretty much sums up both why I switched from Windows to Linux and why I'll never buy anything Apple is pushing. On Linux, the easy stuff is annoying and the hard-but-necessary stuff is even more annoying; on Windows and Mac, the easy stuff is easy and the hard-but-necessary stuff is impossible.
Edit: Well, that and also because, if my OS is going to randomly break whenever some idiot pushes a "update", it might as well be one I don't pay money for, and one that only updates when I tell it to.
Lol, different strokes for different folks. Having to use Karabiner instead of the much more versatile tools on Linux really peeved me when I switched over a few years ago.
I like to rebind my caps lock to function as an extra modifier key. On Linux, you just set it to Hyper; ezpz. On Mac, you just straight up can't, so I have to bind it to command+control+option+shift to get the next best thing (since I would never actually press all four of those keys). And I've had issues with Mac's Keyboard Shortcuts -- some of my shortcuts have just stopped working. I used to have CapsLock+[1-9] as shortcuts to switch to Workspaces 1-9, but some of the shortcuts just stopped working and I've had no luck finding a fix.
On Linux, it may take more effort to do something, but it'll always be possible. So many of the things I want to do on Mac are just not options. When I retire this MacBook, I'll be going back to Linux.