I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple

Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by polote on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:00PM (#28321512)

I've been using the same arch + i3 setup for at least 5 years, never had to change my habits due to an update (except thunderbird which is becoming worse and worse). I've lost a lot a lot of time setting up hibernation and sleep and solving broken depencies, but I have never been limited by gui tools, quite the opposite actually, it is easier to use Pacman than what you need to do on windows or mac.

I honestly don't see what I would gain using Mac or windows , except that hibernation works from the start

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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by lugged on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:34PM (#28322407)

Same sentiment here. About 7 years of arch and i3. Machine migrations are literally dd or rysync commands.

I am in love with the fact my OS layer just does not change at all. It's boring and I like it that way.

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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by codethief on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:56PM (#28322587)

~8-9 years of Ubuntu + i3 (and 11 years on Ubuntu in total), on 4 different laptops (3 Thinkpads), all using the same set of dotfiles and working stably for years.

Installing Linux on a laptop is pretty much painless these days. Also, the neat thing about being able to (re-)store my configs / dotfiles is that I can run my install script on any machine and 5 minutes later the entire machine is completely set up and feels like one of the machines I've been using for years. Back in the 2000s I went through the process of reinstalling Windows a bunch of times and I still remember how painful that was because after installation everything had to be reconfigured and customized in some GUI, which would take hours and never result in quite the same setup I used to have. Now with Linux I've been using the same setup for the past 10 years across machines. (Which is nice as it allows me to tweak my settings over time.)

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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by herbst on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:05AM (#28326307)

> I honestly don't see what I would gain using Mac or windows , except that hibernation works from the start

And even that. My only longer Mac experience was a MBP (2016?) and this machine (and none of my co-workers) wasn't able to re attach a external monitor and external keyboard after hypernating. The time I worked there nobody found a solution

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