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Re:Apple M5 chip by KeplerBoy on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:53AM (#45592602)
I bet most people around here would prefer fully supported linux over mac os on their apple silicon.
Re:Apple M5 chip by vuggamie on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:06AM (#45592801)
The best part of MacOS for me is the unix tools. The command line is a real unix command line. And the rest just works. If I need a linux environment I ssh into a VPS.
Re:Apple M5 chip by BeetleB on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:35AM (#45594185)
> If I need a linux environment I ssh into a VPS.

I want good window management. Linux gives me a huge number of options. MacOS - not as much.

Re:Apple M5 chip by ghaff on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:53AM (#45593569)
It doesn't matter for everyone/most. But, yes, having a Unix command line within MacOS is a pretty big win for some of us. Not something I use on a daily basis certainly. And I'd probably set up a Linux box (or ssh into one) if I really needed that routinely. But it's a nice bonus.
Re:Apple M5 chip by epistasis on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:30AM (#45593187)
Or even just containers on the Mac. Unless you need a GPU with specific hardware, or to connect to a cluster, there's ever decreasing need to use remote boxes.
Re:Apple M5 chip by Daneel_ on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:36AM (#45593290)
Well, kind of.. the commands on Mac OS all just a little bit different and a little bit janky. I still had to relearn all the common commands I use in order to function. I survived 6 months before I went back to a Windows/WSL combo.
Re:Apple M5 chip by MobiusHorizons on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:05AM (#45593744)
Notice the op said Unix not Linux. Gnu made a lot of incompatible changes from the Unix tools it was cloning. Many people in the Linux community prefer the GNU quirks (they are definitely more performance optimized for example). But if you are talking about Unix, the FreeBSD derived userland on a Mac has real Unix lineage.
Re:Apple M5 chip by epistasis on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:02AM (#45593706)
If you want the GNU versions of tools rather than the Mac POSIX versions, then brew can help replace your bin directory with all the GNU niceties.

If you're talking about hardware interaction from the command line, that's very different and I don't think there's a fix.

Re:Apple M5 chip by a456463 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @06:33PM (#45599135)
Unix tools that are barely supported by an external community via brew or macports? Mac is not a dev machine. It is a dev hostile machine.
Re:Apple M5 chip by pxc on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:06AM (#45592790)
Fully supported Linux + proper suspend-to-RAM are the two things I want out of Apple Silicon and may never quite get. Better online low power states are fine, but I want suspend-to-RAM and suspend-then-hibernate.

If I close my laptop for a few days, I don't want significant battery drain. If I don't use it for two weeks, I want it to still have life left. And I don't want to write tens of gigabytes to disk every time I close the lid, either!

Re:Apple M5 chip by ValdikSS on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:33AM (#45594161)
Sleep states are not trivial from the security perspective, and they've eliminated the issue by just not allowing it :)
Re:Apple M5 chip by astrange on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:10PM (#45596402)
It does hibernate. It just takes a long time to do it because the experience of waking up from it is bad.
Re:Apple M5 chip by zozbot234 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:32AM (#45593225)
What happens if you enable airplane mode before closing the laptop? That should power down all radios so battery drain should be approximately equivalent to S3 standby.
Re:Apple M5 chip by geodel on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:27AM (#45593133)
"Fully supported by whom" is the issue and important one. Apple won't do it and going by support from "most people around here" Hector Martin et al got crumbs for years, nowhere near to support the development.

One can just hand wave "Apple must support Linux and all" but that is not going to get anything done.

Re:Apple M5 chip by Romario77 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:59AM (#45592692)
Linux UI is crap compared to Mac.

It's a server or developer box first and a non-technical user second.

Re:Apple M5 chip by timschmidt on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:07AM (#45592804)
I've felt the opposite for more than a decade. On Linux, it's relatively easy for me to choose a set of applications which all use the same UI toolkit. Additionally, the web browser is often called "Web Browser" in the application launcher, LibreOffice Writer "Word Processor", and so on. In general there is far less branding and advertisement and more focus on function. Linux was the first OS with an "app store" (the package manager). CLI utilities available tend to be the full fat versions with all the useful options, rather than minimalist versions there to satisfy posix compatibility. I could go on.

On Linux there is variety and choice, which some folks dislike.

But on the Mac I get whatever Apple gives me, and that is often subject to the limitations of corporate attention spans and development budgets.

Re:Apple M5 chip by MichealCodes on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:19AM (#45593007)
> limitations of corporate attention spans and development budgets

And arbitrary turf wars like their war against web apis/apps causing more friction for devs and end users.

Re:Apple M5 chip by ahartmetz on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:06PM (#45596358)
I'm a Linux fan and I like that Apple isn't rubber-stamping the two new web APIs a week that Google comes up with. There are hundreds of them, most of them quite small fortunately.
Re:Apple M5 chip by robenkleene on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:33PM (#45596678)
> The web browser is often called "Web Browser" in the application launcher, LibreOffice Writer "Word Processor", and so on. In general there is far less branding and advertisement and more focus on function.

Should Emacs and Vim both be called "Editor" then?

To me, this is actually a great example of the problems with Linux as a community, that GUI applications seem to just be treated as placeholders (e.g., all word processors are the same?), but then its inconsistent by celebrating the unique differences between editors like Vim and Emacs. Photoshop, Excel, Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro are, in my opinion, crown jewels of what we've accomplished in computing, and by extension some of the greatest creations of the human race, democratizing tasks that in some cases would have cost millions of dollars before (e.g., a recording studio in your home). Relegating these to generic names like "spreadsheet", makes them sound interchangeable, when in my opinion they're each individual creations of great beauty that should wear their names with pride. They've helped improve the trajectory of the human race by facilitating many individuals to perform actions they never would have had the resources to do otherwise.

Re:Apple M5 chip by timschmidt on Thursday October 16, 2025 @04:37AM (#45602890)
> Should Emacs and Vim both be called "Editor" then?

I've used some distributions in which they were. Tooltips and icons were provided to disambiguate. Worked for me.

Other distributions name applications explicitly, some place them in a folder together named "Editors".

None of the distributions I've used place either in a corporate branded subfolder as is typical on Windows and Mac.

Freedom of choice is wonderful.

Re:Apple M5 chip by robenkleene on Thursday October 16, 2025 @06:01AM (#45603489)
I don't mind corporate branding in general, e.g., if a company makes a great app, why shouldn't they be allow to put their name on it (in an appropriate place)? (And I do think great apps should have more memorable names than "Photo Editor".) (And I'm not sure I get the connection branding has to "Freedom of Choice"?)

But, to your point, even I'll admit the fact that the Photoshop is called "Adobe Photoshop 2025" is annoying lol.

Re:Apple M5 chip by timschmidt on Thursday October 16, 2025 @06:25AM (#45603675)
Where it's mattered for me has been in supporting family like my Grandmother. She's passed now, but ran Linux on her desktop for web and email for about a decade. I set it up for her after her Windows install got a nasty virus. I appreciated that she didn't have to learn that "Safari" meant "the internet" and so on. She didn't even have to know she was using Linux. Just how to get to the web. And Linux desktops made that a little easier for her, and less work for me.
Re:Apple M5 chip by robenkleene on Thursday October 16, 2025 @06:53AM (#45603855)
Got it, yeah that's a very valid use case for a setup like that. But I'm not sure there's much that's OS dependent to support a setup like that? E.g., I could do the same on macOS (e.g., on macOS a wrapper `Web Browser.app` could be made that launches Safari in the Dock [with the Safari icon, or any other, if that's desirable]).
Re:Apple M5 chip by gedy on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:09AM (#45592833)
That was maybe the case 10+ years ago but honestly have been using Fedora with Gnome on my M1, it's pretty polished and nice now.
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Re:Apple M5 chip by jll29 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:51AM (#45593539)
You are right in saying that discoverability has suffered much, by hiding scrollbar and similar changes. Also, you need to move the mouse precisely to a particular spot to re-enable the scrollbars, there is little wiggle room, which may may things harder for handicapped people, older users, or people on the move (e.g. me on a train).
Re:Apple M5 chip by markus_zhang on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:01PM (#45596289)
Yeah, e.g. when you have a very short scrollbar and had to guess where it is for more than 5 seconds...I'm kinda grow past that hype, nada, going back to Winux.

It is SUCH a pity that they have extraordinary hardware (even with the price point I'd still consider it a bargin, especially for the air/mini)...

Re:Apple M5 chip by MichealCodes on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:09AM (#45593803)
Or just the way the menus are on apps. Some app implement their own file/edit/view menus at the top of the app, then some will use the apple version at the top of the OS. If you plug in a TV to use as a monitor and cannot adjust the aspect ratio you're forced to blindly activate these menus as they're clipped from the screen.

MacOS folder navigation is a complete pain too, sometimes you see the list of OS folders, sometimes you see only the folder you opened in finder. If the menu is clipped due to the above aspect ratio problem, good luck getting to your home folder... No functionality to easily open a folder in terminal. Lots of basics just counter-intuitive.

Re:Apple M5 chip by markus_zhang on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @03:08PM (#45597045)
Yeah, I found it not easy to go up one level in finder. Actually I had to Google when I tried first time. The way that MacOS wants to conceal information from the users is just insane. I don't know how it is justified. Nevertheless it has a good number of ardent fans.
Re:Apple M5 chip by 7e on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:51AM (#45593535)
Linux is a vanity and the illusion is only skin-deep. The overall UX truly sucks.
Re:Apple M5 chip by KeplerBoy on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:55AM (#45594513)
Which illusion? It's a computer, no more, no less and Linux is a perfectly fine interface to that computer.
Re:Apple M5 chip by rowanG077 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @12:44PM (#45595225)
I don't understand. From a pure visual standpoint OSX beats. Linux is not particularly known for looking good or cohesive. But in basically all matters it beats the pants of OSX.
Re:Apple M5 chip by artisin on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:37PM (#45595977)
The UX only sucks if you're unwilling to put in a minimal amount of time and effort. After that, it has no equal; it is, by definition, the opposite of vanity.
Re:Apple M5 chip by seattle_spring on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:56PM (#45607780)
Absolutely ironic, coming from someone who claimed that thinking Bazel is overcomplex is "failing an IQ test."