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wewbull@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I e got an i3 one of these on order and should turn up next month. I need to buy RAM and an SSD, but I think it’ll end up around £750 all in. Will replace my 11yo MacBook Air 11 inch. Mac OS just went in the wrong direction under Cook.
turtlesareneat@discuss.online 23 hours ago
Makes me sad that I know exactly what you mean, this new glass shit has me nervously eying the Linux door.
soupbowl@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Linux Desktop has only got better in recent years. I made the switch to Ubuntu ~5 years back and have the opposite problem now - switching back to Windows/macOS can be a buggy pain.
Proprietary apps are still a pain for switching, but helped that most of the main ones (office) have capable web variants.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 17 hours ago
Why’s that? Never used apple devices myself, but I’m under the assumption that redesign is generally favored
wewbull@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
So at one point Macs were the developer laptop. They gave a nice desktop experience but with UNIX underneath that was very close to the Linux servers you’d deploy on to.
The direction of travel has been to bring the UI closer and closer to touch devices, often at the detriment to the developer experience (IMO). Snow Leopard / Lion was Mac OS at it’s best. Once we left the cats behind it started going wrong.
Intel has become Arm - moving things further from those deployment servers. I’ve come to the realisation that I actually need x86 Linux adjacency more than anything else and nothing does that better than x86 Linux.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Can you give some examples on how they’re making it worse for developers? I’ve never used Mac OS before, so I got no clue what’s different about it.