Affinity for Linux is in active development

Re:Affinity for Linux is in active development by i_am_a_peasant on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:26AM (#50366945)

I ran archlinux for 10+ years and then switched to macos... macos is a lot of suck but I have spent a considerably less amount of time configuring my workstation. Although today with LLMs it's a different story. If I want xorg to behave in any niche way I could just ask codex and it'll just do it... No more looking through forums.

I also use software that just runs better out of the box on macos than on linux..

The integration with the iphone is pretty nice, I copy something on my phone, I paste on my macbook, you can probably do that with android + linux but idk how.

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Re:Affinity for Linux is in active development by freedomben on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:34AM (#50367049)

Interesting, I know several Arch people (including myself) that were forced onto Mac for work and absolutely detested it. I'm the type of Arch user though that sets it up the way I like it and leave it alone. Are you a continual tinkerer?

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Re:Affinity for Linux is in active development by lrvick on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:55PM (#50371388)

An employer tried to make me use MacOS once. I tore it down to the Darwin kernel and shell tools and then built X11 and my window manager of choice and a typical Linux toolchain until it was MacOS in name only.

They finally gave up enforcing software rules with me and I became the one exception allowed to install Linux.

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Re:Affinity for Linux is in active development by Klonoar on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:07PM (#50372720)

AKA “I chased OCD down the rabbit hole on my employer’s dime”.

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Re:Affinity for Linux is in active development by lrvick on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:12PM (#50386444)

They wasted their own time by thinking they know what tools I will be productive with better than me.

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Re:Affinity for Linux is in active development by i_am_a_peasant on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:35AM (#50424738)

Good on you man.

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Re:Affinity for Linux is in active development by koiueo on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:37PM (#50369709)

> I have spent a considerably less amount of time configuring my workstation

Complete opposite for me.

On NixOS I enable KDE with i3 and rofi, and there's little to adjust.

On MacOS, I need yabai, karabiner, raycast, shottr (costs money), one of those hideous tray management tools that work by capturing your screen (facepalm)... For yabai I need to disable system integrity protection. With every update my setup breaks, and I need to spend countless hours debugging and setting everything up again... And it's still subpar to what I could have in Linux.

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