I kind of really dislike the notion that you only use Linux because you are too poor for Apple.
I donāt use Apple because I donāt like to be stuck in a walled garden where a company decides whatās best for me.
I know itās just a meme, but I think too many people actually think Linux is somehow inferior to Apple (MacOS) while I think itās the other way around.
snap windows to the edge of their screens
While itās not a feature out of the box, there is software to add this functionality to macOS. Butā¦ same on Linux. You need to install that software if you want the feature. (Gnome/i3/other choice with this functionality.) So š¤·āāļø
The most popular software to do that is proprietary and you have to buy it. For Apple you are only a demi-sentient wallet and they are constantly trying to dry you up. I hate that with a passion.
Also. MacOS is absolute garbage. Iāve used it for 4 months now, and it pisses me off how inconsistent it is, and poorly designed and written. Two days wasted because of an almost bricked laptop because the monitor was set to 60Hz while installing an update. Just think about that.
I also had the misfortune of booting into windows after changing a motherboard. It was an absolute shit show there too, with broken drivers. Two hours of debugging. Had to use a long ethenet cable to even start fixing it, a flashback to a Linux experience I had in 2007.
Same system in Linux? Not a single second spent. WiFi drivers, microcode. Everything worked fine. Only thing necessary was fixing the grub/mbr partition that Windows decided to write over, on a separate drive. But thatās also Microsoft being shit.
People just donāt know how much more usable Linux is these days. Especially for power users. You can do so many things, so easily, that either works out of the box, or you can do with simple scripting. The only issue is software availability, but that too is mostly a thing of the past, and not really a fault of the OS.
Yes, I agree. Just holy cactus, MacOS is just so bad these days. The inconsistency us driving me nuts. Why do the windows you open with the āhelpā menus inside of apps have small buttons? Why do some apps (e.g. Music) have a Search entry on the left side, and why do so have it on the left? Why do we still have tons of icons for system apps (Photo Booth, Iām looking at you) who have been programmed in a time where there have been dinosaurs around and seem to have never changed? ā¦ And so on. Like honestly, MacOS is so much better that Windows (which admittedly isnāt hard), but when I open up my good olā Fedora I dont have the feeling that I see a new shiny operating system, and when I click on a wrong button I am in the 1990-s again. Or 2050-s. Or God knows where. Linux has its unique set of challenges, but I fully agree that the notion that āMacOS is better than the restā just isnāt true anymore. Maybe it was, when Linux distributions were worse and there was more money put into bugfixing OS releases. But not anymore.
Youāre confusing iOS, where you are in a walled garden, with macOS, where you can just do whatever the hell you want (Thereās a recovery partition you can boot to where you can disable just about every bit of security thatās not hardware much like booting to grub in Linux)
