Ask HN: Mac OS vs. Windows in 2022

Re:Ask HN: Mac OS vs. Windows in 2022 by wizwit999 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @03:59PM (#32717099)

As a general purpose OS, I actually quite like Windows 11, its nice, clean, and beautiful. But unfortunately, Windows is not there for development. I've used WSL for years and its actually gotten much worse with WSL2, especially with Docker. Specifically, I'd be plagued by this issue (https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166), where Docker would eat all the WSL memory and never release it. I finally pulled the plug and use Ubuntu 22 as as a daily OS (on dual boot), the UX is not bad, e.g. I was actually pleasantly surprised by the smoothness of the windowing gestures as a first time user, but there are many warts (e.g. very janky around sleeping/hibernating). I mostly develop and browse the web so its OK overall.

MacOS is very good, no real complaints.

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Re:Ask HN: Mac OS vs. Windows in 2022 by cyberninja123 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:03PM (#32717139)

Thanks for the insight. Regarding the memory problem, how about installing massive amounts of Ram? It's cheap and a lot of laptops outside the Apple realm have open memory slots

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Re:Ask HN: Mac OS vs. Windows in 2022 by wizwit999 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:23PM (#32717310)

re the memory, More RAM won't help, the bug was that docker would eat all the memory you give it. The mitigation was to limit your WSL memory.

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Re:Ask HN: Mac OS vs. Windows in 2022 by aborsy on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:47PM (#32717550)

Ubuntu has been better than McOS in my experience.

When there are issues, at least you can search and resolve them.

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