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Re:Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple S... by chongli on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:39PM (#23838947)
During those years I did all of that stuff. I used Xmonad and had a very large config. I did deep dives into both vim and emacs configuration.

When I got accepted into school, I realized that all had to change. I couldn't spend hours configuring things anymore. I had to focus on getting work done quickly. The Mac gives that to me with minimum fuss.

I think you are definitely not the target. The Mac is not designed for people to treat their own computer as a hobby, the way I did with Linux for a decade. It's designed for getting work done and being as seamless and unobtrusive as possible, for as many people as possible.

Re:Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple S... by AsyncAwait on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:43PM (#23850599)
> When I got accepted into school, I realized that all had to change. I couldn't spend hours configuring things anymore. I had to focus on getting work done quickly.

I both started and sucesfully completed my CS degree on Arch. I didn't have to spend hours to configure anything. I now work as a full-time software dev on Arch every day, 8 hours a day. This is an often repeated myth but I haven't experienced it. Am not sure Linux, (any distro at this point), is the problem.