XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350
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That being said, I have a MacBook Pro as well, and it wouldn't feel right to install macOS on a Dell notebook. Considering the value macOS has for me, and other benefits of MacBooks (build quality, trackpad, possibly screen although I haven't seen the DELL), I feel the price is fair and I don't want to undermine those creating these excellent products – you may even want to consider what today's DELLs would be without Apple. I doubt that we'd have seen retina screens without their lead.
On the Desktop, where I do a lot of work in tensorflow, Apple just doesn't give me a choice. The graphics and CPU options aren't available, and if they were, it'd be almost a 5-digit sticker price. It's probably a net positive for them because it lowers the chances of me leaving Apple to run an illegal copy of macOS.
Note that setting up a hackintosh will probably cost you at least a day the first time, and anything from "it just worked" to another day every time you want to install an update. For a professional with opportunity costs, it's a losing proposition for notebooks. The hackintosh community is also extremely unprofessional, with many tools still on sourceforge, some doing strange things that appeared to me to be attempts to get paid for work incorporating GPL code, documentation being almost exclusively of the walkthrough-type (i. e.: "set uia_exclude=HS12" with no explanation to be found anywhere as to what "uia" or "HS12" are), and the worst user interfaces ever invented by anyone not working for a printer manufacturer.
[1] http://www.alphr.com/laptops/1002278/dell-xps-13-vs-macbook-...
[2] http://www.itpro.co.uk/laptops/21797/macbook-pro-15in-v-dell...
The only place where the XPS 13 is inferior in terms of build quality, so far as I can tell, is coil whine. I believe they've fixed that in the most recent versions.
Also, even though it's not a big deal I'd rather not have a touch screen at all as I do on the XPS. It's useless, and registers touches when I close the lid (I prefer not to suspend if I'm just walking from one room to another)
Edit: I should note I use Ubuntu exclusively on the XPS 13. I don't know what the trackpad is like in Windows. Presumably it's comparable.
Also my XPS13 is 2 years old and the "carbon fiber" cover started to disintegrate along the edges. The screen hinge is a bit loose so it wobbles a bit with movement.
Other than that it's fab :)
Anecdotally, I've got Fedora on mine, and I noticed a huge difference in the trackpad responsiveness when I switched from the Synaptics driver over to libinput. Palm detection got way better, for one thing.
But keyboard on my dell is leagues ahead of mbp hands down.
Touchbar MBP's keyboard is a huge downgrade and I agree that the XPS 13's keyboard is superior. I have no idea why Apple ruined one of the best keyboard in the industry with the Touchbar range.
Not wanting the cursor to stall and then jump around is not personal preference though.
Gestures work perfectly, the cursor never jumps around either - unlike other laptops with crappy touchpads.
The general shoddy build quality of most manufacturers, combined with the fact that Apple would likely sue the pants off of trackpad "clones", is my reasoning for why all other trackpads are just functionally absent when compared to Apple.
The trackpad has problems jumping about occasionally, the wifi is unreliable to say the least (linux, but I think also on windows) and the fan spins up sounding like it's catching on something. The audio quality is atrocious.
Oh and really bad coil whine as well, a problem I've never had with macs.
However, it's fairly alright and significantly cheaper.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RCZ4I6S/ref=od_aui_deta...
And for dot dot releases, I had a terrible time with updates because I really, really wanted a RAID 1 for my system drive (using an approved hw RAID card). Turns out, this is a very rare setup, but one that made upgrades between minor macOS releases very tricky, with the tools provided. And I got almost no help from the forums (because no one there had done it).
After two years, I gave up and got a Mac Pro 6,1. And, even though the video card I had was very beefy, Lightroom performance was much better with the nMP, I guess because Adobe supported the standard video card in the nMP but not the one in the hackintosh.
My hackintosh (currently on my second one, it's a 2012 i5 machine) has less stability and driver issues than Windows 10 on the same hardware.
I've found that only by avoiding drivers direct from the manufacturer do you ever achieve true stability in Windows.
Made me think about the argument that Windows needs to support so many hardware combinations that <X> which I seem to remember sometimes hearing :) Although, to be fair, I obviously bought rather mainstream components and am not running RAIDs etc.
Hackintoshed OS X (10.9 Mavericks in this case) just treats the card as an 9600M GT and runs it without issue. No panics, no lockups, and no performance hit.
I'd be interested to hear what kind of problems you had with Linux drivers on a desktop, that isn't something most of us, Linux users, had major problems with for almost a decade.
Even Pascal GPUs are supported, unlike on a Hackintosh.
I understand why a Mac OS X virtual machine might not be completely compatible with Apple's overall business model but perhaps something available through the Apple developer program? Something, anything, would be nice.
I believe that there's a DLL patcher for Windows VMware that allows OS X guests. Back when I tried it last time, it worked nicely but then again I only used it for creating USB install media for repairing / reinstalling broken Macs and didn't require stuff like high-performance USB or GPU acceleration.
I have a desktop that's been running strong for over half a decade with Windows 7: core i7-920, dual GeForce GTS 250 graphics card (identical, no SLI bridge). It's hooked up to 3 monitors with 2 on the first card, and 1 on the second. On Windows, this works completely fine.
On Linux however, I only have one ancient version of Linux Mint Debian Edition with an old version of the Nvidia drivers working. But only in a configuration where each screen is a separate X session, so no moving windows across monitors. That's fine by me, but I don't use this install anymore because everything is out of date.
On any recent distro of Linux, the default is to use Nouveau drivers which can get all screens to activate after messing with the configurations. BUT, I either run into screen flickering, invisible mouse cursor, instability, or poor performance. That is issue #1. My thinking is ok, back to Nvidia drivers. They install fine, but I cannot get any combination of settings to activate all 3 screens either as one X session (third screen never works) or as separate X sessions like in my old install (depending on the DE I choose, either no DE is launched on the other monitors, or they do launch but the only way to run programs on the other X sessions is to manually configure the DISPLAY value to those screens and launch the program in a terminal).
Ignoring the fact that I had to give up on using the GUI configuration programs and edit xorg files like I was back in the 2000s, can you figure out a way to get my environment working in a sane manner?
> as separate X sessions like in my old install (depending on the DE I choose, either no DE is launched on the other monitors, or they do launch but the only way to run programs on the other X sessions is to manually configure the DISPLAY value to those screens and launch the program in a terminal).
the issue is not with the drivers, but with whatever DE you want to use. Since the vast, vast majority of people nowadays do not run multiple X screens, there isn't a lot of interest on the part of desktop environment coders to get them working (also because likely they don't have that hardware themselves and so can't try it either)
I personally also run two separate nvidia cards with two separate X screens on them, I run i3 but have had to patch several things to get it to work well enough for myself, it was doable for me to patch i3 due to having spent many years deep into X11/Xt way back, but definitely not something the average user could do and not something useful enough to a large enough number of people to warrant including in it for everybody
A desktop environment coded to expect that it's run once per computer in general won't like being launched twice in parallel (one for each screen), if you want something easy I suggest doing something like running KDE on your primary card and Gnome on the other: you will very likely have to mess with your .xinitrc to launch each separately on :0.0 and :0.1 but it should be doable
I only mentioned the separate X session part because that has been suggested as a "workaround" for over half a decade; hence why I even have that setup on my old install. I was simply anticipating someone posting a response claiming that it would work with such a configuration as I know the inevitable answer (I revisit trying Linux on this computer maybe once a year).
> Since the vast, vast majority of people nowadays do not run multiple X screens, there isn't a lot of interest on the part of desktop environment coders to get them working (also because likely they don't have that hardware themselves and so can't try it either)
Yup, I get that it's uncommon. It's just sad that what used to work years ago has regressed and simply does not work at all anymore. I also considered doing the .xinitrc thing you suggested, but stopped myself from wasting more time as it would just result in a frankenstein DE that wouldn't be very usable (Gnome & KDE are quite far apart in usability philosophy).
(edit: Also remember that to a non-technical user, they would simply try what the GUI suggests. Nvidia defaults to separate X sessions across different cards. Since DEs don't work with that configuration anymore, that would appear no different than a driver issue to the end user.)
> This constant regression in features is what I dislike most about Linux lately. Eternal September in software form.
This is what pushed me from using Linux full time for almost a decade to jumping ship to Apple a year ago. That and people like AsyncAwait who never seem to respond to people like me who post concrete real world problems despite claiming everything negative is FUD.
- Trackpad is awful and all the synaptics software and tweaks and configs I've tried can't make it work half as well as a MBP trackpad - graphics switching + sleep + power brick replugging + lid closing doesn't work ever - high power usage unless powertop --autotune is run, which breaks USB replugging and causes more havoc with sleep - mfg defect with the ribbon cable under the space bar causing the space bar to be almost unusable. Required a new keyboard and me tearing the whole thing apart to fix
The screen is gorgeous though (thin bezels + 4K IGZO + capacitive touch which I don't need) and the hinge works well even when touching it. Build quality is OK but not micron-level perfect like MBPs (the seam where the metal meets the bottom shell is off by a tiny bit and catches my finger). The power brick is bigger than an MBP equivalent and they're not ubiquitous as the MagSafe2s now are. Having real USB ports is nice, since I hate the USB dongle I have Velcro'd to the USB-C power cable for the tbMBP.
It also doesn't run Mac OS, which FWIW on the 2016 tbMBP fares about as well as the Dell with re-plugging two 4K DP USB alt-mode adapters -- I end up hard-powering the MBP >50% of the time since the internal displays and external displays won't show anything, even though the stupid touch bar lights up.
I got the Dell used on eBay for about half of retail, which is about what I consider it to be worth, while I consider the 2015 rMBP to be worth ~$1600 and the 2016 tbMBP much less.
I have the max-spec new 13" Touch Bar MBP, and it's a terrible laptop. The keyboard is so loud I have been banned from using it in the bedroom at night - a practice I have been doing for the entirety of my marriage. The TouchBar is so useless at night and for development work (where I extensively use ESC and F-keys) that I literally have to put another keyboard on top of the laptop.
So, please, give me MacOS running on a similar-spec non-Apple laptop with a proper, quiet keyboard and I will thank you form the bottom of my heart (and my bedroom).
I will say that the Track Pad on the latest MBP is really very nice.
Loving the Hackintosh, but I lose a lot of my life anytime I want to change something.
> Note that setting up a hackintosh will probably cost you at least a day the first time
I think they're fun to tinker with (reminds me of building a Linux machine circa 1999) but unless your time is free they're usually not a cost savings (though in your desktop use case the numbers may work out)
That being said, the more I used it, the more it made me want Apple hardware. The keyboard, trackpad, screen, magsafe, etc.
I'm now using a MBA 12" and could not be happier.
So I stuck with Windows 10
Then one day I posted about it on here, realized how silly it was I was investing so much effort into turning my Windows machine into a MBP and traded it for a 2015 MBP. I took a big hit in raw power (i7 to i5, 940m to integrated) but it was worth it.
I could understand it when Windows 8 first came out, and high DPI screens were still relatively rare. But for the support to still be so bad, years later, is unforgivable.
Yes, there is.
The only app that I am using that seems to be able to handle high DPI and DPI changes during runtime is Firefox. Most of the third-party apps that I used (not that many of them) either do not support high DPI at all (and are scaled by the OS), or fully support high DPI mode (with changing DPI during life of the app). So all of them work in more or less predictable manner.
The worst are non-modern applications by Microsoft. They behave randomly, sometimes only parts of application get scaled. The worst offender is MS Office, each app of the suite has it's own high DPI related quirks (Outlooks gets blury, PowerPoint's UI becomes huge).
Also the task bar icons do not expect DPI to be changed during their lifetime :/
Compare this to the situation on Windows where people using the native toolkit is a rarity, with tens or hundreds of different UI toolkits in use and even a bunch of totally custom UI, much of which assumes a 90 DPI desktop. There's really not much MS can do about that except make an educated guess about offending programs and try to force-scale them to 2x.
When I have an administrative task on Windows, it's like Find Waldo. Where did they hide that setting? The number of times I've had to Google to find out how to do something on Windows... significant.
On macOS, there is a single place I need to look and it's been the same since the beginning. Yes, there have been minor tweaks over the versions, but I never feel like I'm lost. The number of times I've had to Google to find out how to do something on macOS... almost never.
And I'm much newer to macOS than I am to Windows.
Here's a funny thing: Microsoft Office's settings are just like the System Preferences of macOS! In look and feel.
I had to take the A+ certification for a stupid work requirement (I'm a senior security consultant, how does that make any sense?) and even though I've been a Windows user since Windows 95 came out, it was really hard to answer questions like "what is the name of the Control Panel task that manages users?" They didn't like the answer of "hit the Windows key and type 'users'".
The fact is, Apple did it right and Microsoft did it wrong.
Does it happen to you occasionally that you look up instructions on the internet about "how to do X"? It does to me, for example, "how to mark a network private". It used to be that you could open Control Panel along the browser window and work through it. Not anymore! Now, the setting up takes the entire screen. You have to use two screens if you want to do something that the Mac has supported flawlessly since 1987, and Windows only since 1990 (but no later than 2014).
When I point out to Windows users this example (and others) of how horrible and hostile Windows has become since Win8, I get answers that I can only describe as learned helplessness and stockholm syndrome.
This is a big issue I have had with recent versions (7 onward) of Windows. I found that earlier versions of Windows incorporated Control Panel changes but the Control Panels were intuitive enough where I very quickly learned how to locate what I needed. The current control panel seems so foreign to me as to be intimidating.
OS X has better multi monitor DPI handling, more dev tools written for it (brew blows chocolatey out of the park), and in general just feels smoother.
Seriously - there is so much FUD about this it isn't funny anymore. What ads are you talking about? Sure, there are recommended apps (can be turned off), apps preinstalled (takes 30 secs to uninstall them) and telemetry (easily turn it all off in Settings).
So-called "developers" and tech enthusiasts are smart enough to get Linux up and running in a heatbeat yet struggle to turn a few things off in Windows that takes 1 minute at most to do. Please.
Yes, it is difficult to get them uninstalled forever.
They should've never been in there in the first place, that's what forced ads mean.
None of these things should've been opt-in for an OS by default. Microsoft is already updating the setup/first-run experience to inform the users about the telemetry options and let them opt-out.
Every Windows Update that I've installed on my SP4 has reset these settings back on, thus yes, it is somewhat forced on me. I'm definitely not the only one who had this happened as many complaints in Feedback Hub was about this and other MS forums. In fact, it was only recently that MS said they'd keep track of the default app settings to prevent reinstalling them upon updates.
And I did have Windows update forcibly install itself in the middle of a session when it was supposed to wait until later.
Not unless you are running enterprise.
Also, I also find that things I've removed get reinstalled on updates. And that updates reboot my win10 computer unexpectedly. And that I have to hack registry and kill processes to stop that - but that updates occasionally circumvent my circumvention.
Seriously, Windows is hostile. I was forced to pay for an OS that goes to great pains to be hostile to me and subvert my wishes and configuration. DO NOT WANT! (And do not use, except for one machine that I'm forced to use to support some customers).
You need to download a third-party program like O&O's Shutup10 to disable telemetry. As this is not a supported method, Microsoft ignores the user's clear preferences and turns it back on with every major OS update.
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
You can indeed opt-out of ads, you're correct there.
I installed iOS 7 on my iPhone 4 and the code is so unsuited for that device that many UI elements don't respond to touches and gestures made at normal human speed. You have to slow down by a factor of two or more for things to register. Trying to double-click the home button is an exercise in frustration.
It's definitely not FUD that apple releases OS upgrades that don't do well on older hardware.
It isn't true on PC hardware, where a modern kaby lake i5 performs similarly on desktop tasks to a a 5 year old ivy bridge i5. PC hardware has advanced tremendously in power efficiency, but much less so in performance.
Btw, can Windows 10 use Kerberos auth from KDC that is not AD yet? Preferably without enrolling? Simply running ticket viewer, entering principal and password, getting ticket? And using it for accessing services (file sharing, for example) then? Just like macOS and Linux can?
Depends on what answer you are looking for. You can technically join a Windows machine to any arbitrary kerberos domain, but since Windows has a very "unique" user/group model all it will do is let you access kerberized services.
You can also just install the MIT kerberos client, but any software will need to explicitly support it (Firefox does, at the very least).
Ultimately though, the best solution is to just set up an AD domain and a trust to the kerberos realm you want to use services on :/
Background: think of a group of freelancers, working together with one organization. The freelancers have each their own BYOD laptop and there are few servers, that provide services. Until now, each of these services had their own unique user database, so every user had to remember several passwords.
We want to change that and are currently experimenting with FreeIPA. In the lab, everything works as it should - with macOS and Linux. Even Windows machines, that are joined to a domain with the trust set up with FreeIPA domain work (that would be some of the servers). However, the standalone Windows machines are the problem. So far, only Firefox and Putty can use GSSAPI. Chrome uses SSPI, even PostgreSQL windows client supports only SSPI, and now I’m playing with the svn klient to figure out, whether it can use GSSAPI. For smb shares, Windows insist on NTLM (and on the Linux side, sssd doesn’t support NTLMSSP), so there I’m looking into plain LDAP backend for Samba. At least they could enter the password into the Explorer dialog and get to the files.
For webapps, it is actually quite simple - just use some IDP. Those who cannot obtain a tgt, will log-in using forms. It doesn’t really matter whether they put their password into web form or into kinit or ticket viewer. It’s the non-web services, that are the problem.
The other solution would be to let them RDP into terminal server and let them do everything there. This solution slightly complicates the work for the users, because they will have to use some locally installed apps anyway.
Towards AD, I'm kind of ambivalent. However, it's all or nothing approach is not suitable right now. What I need now is just the Kerberos, and the willingness of the apps to use it.
But the main reason is that most devs use OSX so their projects build on OSX (and Linux)...
I love the graphical side of Windows, though.
I don't think so. Most devs on HN seem to hate Windows, but everywhere else they love it.
The startup scene seems to hate Windows, but most programmers aren't working for a startup either.
Everywhere I go on the east coast, programmers love Windows.
I loved OSX because things were smooth, the Hackintosh got in the way of that.
Besides, ULV processors are all slow. Skylake i7 ULVs in >1000$ ultra books was on par with my 2009 400$ HP's i5 mobile processor. i5 ULV vs i7 ULV is barely an upgrade.
I looked at the issues on that GitHub project: iMessage. Every place I see hackintoshing discussed, I notice that iMessage doesn't work. People effuse about how great hackintoshing is, but there are consistent gaps in the setup. Like Linux users, they gloss over these problems. (I'm guilty of this myself, and it's probably why I notice.) I use iMessage on my MBP a LOT. macOS without iMessage wouldn't really be macOS to me.
I'm sure it is possible to start fiddling around and configure stuff if you need/want to, but so far the XPS 13 (well, Precison 5510 in my case but it is the same line of product) with Ubuntu works as I expect it to
Setting up CUDA along with Bumblebee is real pain though. In the beginning sometimes the lightdm just crash on start, but it has been stable after the first week.
It's a bigger challenge on Windows than OSX. On OSX devs only have to target a small number of High DPI resolutions.
Strangely, this is exactly my experience of running Linux on my Thinkpad. It just works: Every time. No fuss, no messing about with drivers, no dorking about with DEs. Open it up, get down to work.
Admittedly, when I worked full time with a Mac Pro as my desktop, OSX was perfectly OK. I honestly can’t say that I felt it was any better than my Linux experience on a day to day basis though.
I just don’t spend any time fiddling with Gnome; sure, it’s a bit opinionated about how it wants you to work with it, but so was macOS. I don’t spend any mental cycles worrying about the DE on either macOS or Gnome & that’s exactly the way it should be.
I’ll freely admit that the possibility of going down the rabbit hole of fiddling with your DE until you’ve got it just so is always there under Linux, whilst you have to to be a lot more committed to customisation on macOS if you want to mess around with that kind of stuff. But I decided long ago that so long as the DE got out of my way & let me get on with doing stuff then I wasn’t going to care about it.
It’s possible that I’m missing out on some amazing experience that would transform my computing life, but having tried both I’m really just not seeing it personally.
That's hyperbole if I've ever seen it. You can look at how many problems plagued Fedora on the XPS13 as recently as a year ago:
https://major.io/2015/02/03/linux-support-dell-xps-13-9343-2...
The tl;dr version is that the guy spent so long trying to get it working properly that he ditched the laptop for a Thinkpad. And FWIW, Fedora usually has better support for recent hardware than other distros due to the up-to-date kernel.
From what I gather, Thinkpads are the crown jewel of Linux-supported laptops. This is more of a dogfooding thing than anything else: kernel developers, Redhat employees, and other Linux users tend to use Thinkpads, which means they then spend more time getting support for Thinkpads into the kernel.
The community sorted out most of the issues, so about 6 months later the experience was actually quite good.
Dell released the Linux version of the laptop too early, I guess they wanted to get some traction but it backfired.
Would you like to describe your experience? My use of the DE is mostly for staring browsers/terminals and jumping workspaces (not as smooth as a Mac w/ trackpad).
> It's a great OS, by far the most stable OS I have ever used.
Windows 10 is reasonable, but I wouldn't say it's the most stable OS I've ever used and updates are usually a pain, specially compared to Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora.
I find GNOME 3.22 to be at least as, if not more usable than macOS.
But Microsoft still find ways to screw things up.
I don't know if ICS was working pre-Anniversary update, but it certainly wasn't working reliably post-Anniversary, which screwed me right over. It'd work fine when you set it up, only to die and require disabling and re-enabling to work again.
The Anniversary update broke the DMP client (not that I use it). It mangled the IPv6 DHCP client as well for a lot of people supposedly.
And that's ignoring stuff like the awful search functionality, Windows Defender randomly breaking and effectively eating a CPU core, profiles breaking for no apparent reason, the randomly resetting/breaking non-default file associations, the regular bullcrap trying to push you to Edge, the broken gaming platform (seriously, how hard is it to accept money for the Solitaire collection upgrade?)...
That's barely scratching the surface.
"Desktop Linux", (what distro/version?), tends to work out of the box with no problems on mainstream desktops, even with Pascal GPUs.
I feel like the "Linux doesn't work out of the box" thing was true 10 years ago, but today is just repeated by people who haven't tried it but want to feel that there still is something crappier than what they're doing.
You'd be surprised.
"Oh well yeah, that's a little broken but that's a 5 minute fix!" x 100;
"Yeah, that sucks but there next version of (Gnome/Wayland/switching distros/getting less problematic hardware) should fix that" x 50;
And "I'm not saying PEBKAC... but maybe PEBKAC".
So I don't bother anymore.
Linux is for some reason expected to behave perfectly, while Windows routinely screws with audio, borks updates etc. and nobody calls it unusable on the desktop or similar, another thing - most of these kinds of posters just refuse to read or understand the Linux way of doing things and try to apply their Windows mentality to Linux and if it doesn't work the same way, complain.
But in general if you have a question that is not worded in the Linux sucks! sort of way you'll get tons of great help.
I mean... generalizing people who use Windows in such an unflattering light certainly doesn't help anyone (or thier views of the Linux community). When any user complains about Windows they usually get an "amen", but suddenly when a Windows user has a problem with Linux it's because "they're trying to apply their Windows mentality"? So when people complain about how cmd.exe sucks, should I tell them "Shed your Linux mentality and use the GUI" instead of pointing out Powershell and WSL?
Windows and Linux have their warts. I don't think anyone holds Linux to any unreasonable standard compared to Windows (I mean we're at a stage where people are still impressed when a stock Ubuntu install supports all their hardware because it wasn't that long ago that was something taken for granted).
I generally don't try to treat Linux as primarily a desktop OS because it doesn't do that as well (for me) as it does as an OS running in embedded settings and servers, and I generally think that's ok, it doesn't have to excel at everything.
In the past, I've have been happy to tinker a bit to make it work, but these days I'm busy working, so I want my display setup to just work out of the box. Ubuntu is close, but 16.10 applies the scale factor from the 4k display to the secondary display as well, so things don't look very good on the secondary screen.
It just works without fuss on Windows 10, so I tend to just run Win10, even though I prefer the look and feel of several different Linux desktop environments. The Win10 linux subsystem has been good enough so far than even ruby and rails development is painless - whereas before I used to run into some minor but annoying issues.
My Linux desktop experience is far from terrible - these days, I just fire up a Win10 or Linux VM and full-screen it on my secondary display and just use it for running a browser to look up documentation and other such things. In doing things that way, I'll end up with proper DPI scaling on both screens. But it adds enough friction to the process that I usually won't bother with it until I get sick of the Windows look and feel and want to look at something different for a few days.
I realize my use case is probably atypical, but it as least serves as an example of a non-seamless Linux desktop experience.
> 16.10 applies the scale factor from the 4k display to the secondary display as well
Though not surfaced in the UI, easy enough to fix with this with xrandr. This SO question solves a similar problem http://askubuntu.com/questions/393400/is-it-possible-to-have...
Next week I have 3 final exams, so I will be back in next WednesdayWhy oh why can't they freaking update the damn hardware.
This is one of those situations where Apple secretive culture really hurts the entire industry.
A simple statement like, we screwed the Mac Pro redesign, but a new one is coming in June, we had manufacturing problems, or we are not interested in this market anymore, would be a lot better than simply selling a 3 year old computer for the same price.
That doesn't do anyone any good
The case here is that you have gotten used to the workarounds of macOS, because I'm pretty certain that most people that are not fanboys will agree that all operating systems have a lot of really ugly parts and it's just a matter of choosing the one that has the least downsides for your use case. Operating systems are way too big to be able to be even close to perfection.
2. How can you say you can't use Windows if you haven't used one since xp??
Exactly what is the "hack" here?
It's not a hack per se, but there's definitely more to the equation, and thus a lot more room for error.
How is this different from native Linux?
One tiny thing that drives me absolutely nuts: it used to be when the lock screen was showing, I could immediately start typing my password to login. Now there's this second or two delay, so the first few characters of my password don't get entered and I almost always "mistype" my password the first time I login. I don't know why, but this really bothers me.
The only glaring issue is if you mount your windows drive in any form, permissions are fudged. Otherwise, perfectly capable. I'm certain there are bugs, but I use it heavily as a daily driver (admittedly, just managing remote systems) and it's mostly flaw free.
* Recently swapped from MacOS after ~5 years in their ecosystem
* ~15 year linux user prior to that.
You'll get ssh and a package manager from the get-go. The Dell XPS 13 can be bought with Ubuntu preinstalled so you don't have to do to the trouble of setting things up yourself.
When man pages start with a few practical real-world examples, I'll think about it.
When some of the more experienced Linux devs figure out a way of purging the stub code created by noobs writing "my first Linux app haw haw" and sending these vile critters on a one-way trip to space, I'll think about it.
Linux needs a benevolent dictator, like Steve Jobs, to tell people, "no, your code is shit, your idea is shit, fuck off" instead of a community that indulges every contribution no matter how lame, stupid, confusing and non-functional it is.
When I can be sure that my package manager won't break "ls" (and every other basic command) while doing a routine installation of a user level application (glibc is now toast; reinstall), I'll think about it.
Linux will stop being garbage when there aren't 17 different places to put everything and every dev assumes that every user knows all of them and is in possession of an encyclopedic knowledge of arcana going back to ENIAC.
Explain everything every time!
I agree wholeheartedly. I was hoping Canonical was going to be this but sadly they have been rather weak.
* There was a post recently on HN, where someone was trying to use Homebrew on Linux, rather than the native package manager.
Someone like Linus maybe?
[1] https://chocolatey.org/ [2] https://chocolatey.org/packages/openssh
http://www.howtogeek.com/224111/how-to-use-packagemanagement...
For me it's about screen glare. I absolutely refuse to buy a machine with a non-matte screen.
Initially I worried about how clean the screen was. But in the end using the laptop with a touch screen is really convenient.
Pause a video by tapping on the screen.
Quit an application by tapping the X.
Scrolling through web pages.
Also I often want to make a quick recording with voice recorder, tapping the record and stop button is really convenient.
Fingerprints show up in sunlight but in normal usage it isn't as visible, but I do keep a micro fibre cloth to wipe the screen every once in a while.
I'd recommend giving it a go with Windows 10 for a while, it'll grow on you, you'll just have to get over the initial desire to keep the screen pristine.
Ah, there's a todo list, missed that on my first look through:
Refine AppleHDA
New FixUSB.sh to fix a bug that external devices will disappear when cold boot into macOS
Import IOPowerManagement
ACPI KeyboardNext week I have 3 final exams, so I will be back in next Wednesday! What I will do next week are listed below
- Remove patched ACPI tables directories(precomiple, raw, comiple) every time before acpi compile - Add reboot fix ResetAddress = 0xB2 and ResetValue = 0x73 to script using auto detection from FACP table - Refine ACPI patches such that all XPS 13 9350 users can enjoy(still in progress)
Refine AppleHDA New FixUSB.sh to fix a bug that external devices will disappear when cold boot into macOS Import IOPowerManagement ACPI Keyboard
Has anybody tried the steps here and tried using iMessage?
[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/2wohwn/getting_...
The instructions basically avoid the blacklist.
"Ok, what type of computer do you have?" "A Dell" [silence]
However, for folks like me who are really disappointed with my MacBook Pro options, and really impressed with the PC innovation we're seeing, I'm interested.
How that situation would be different from now? It's not like Apple actively trying to defend itself from hackintoshes, they just don't care at all, so you can use hackintosh if you want. Apple supports selected list of hardware which is present in their products and it's not something proprietary, so you can buy those parts and build computer.
For $999 I bet most people would just torrent it. For $99 there wouldn't be enough purchases to justify a lot of additional work, especially support, because selling product presumes that you're going to help customers with their issues.
What Apple probably would do is just to release their OS X free without legal restrictions and with some working installer, loader, etc. It's not a lot of work and you're not getting support if you're not buying their hardware. Then hardware manufacturers would build drivers, at least for some of their hardware. Now hackintosh doesn't exist for manufacturers, because it's not completely legal and community around hackintosh isn't good enough to write their own drivers.
Really? Going off sample size of 1 / gut feeling, OSX is the only OS that was seemed actively hostile at every step for emulation / dual boot.
Win XP/Win 7/several flavors of Linux were all a relative walk in the park.
Also they aren't sending Cease and Desist or DMCA notices.
Softwarewise it's only designed to run on Mac hardware and it is in breach of the licence to run a hackingtosh
There's no non-apple branded hardware certified by another manufacturer to run MacOS? That's the difference. You better believe Dell would sell XPS devices targetted to that market if they could.
>For $999 I bet most people would just torrent it. For $99 there wouldn't be enough purchases to justify a lot of additional work, especially support
No doubt people would torrent it - they always do... they do it now! But for $999 or somewhere above your $99 strawman there's a place for Apple to support non-apple hardware and deal with support issues. That's the point of it being so expensive.
>What Apple probably would do is just to release their OS X free without legal restrictions and with some working installer, loader, etc. It's not a lot of work and you're not getting support if you're not buying their hardware.
Of the two I think selling their OS for use on non-apple hardware is more likely than open sourcing. In my humble opinion I don't see them giving away their OS. Honestly I don't ever see them selling their OS for non-apple hardware either but at some hypothetical price at least they'd be opening up a new revenue channel. That wouldn't happen with an open source give away.
Use their computers or don't, I don't care. But it's time to let this one go.
My brother has an old Thinkpad X220 (with IPS panel) which he converted into a Hackintosh. The only thing he needed to do is to replace the internal wifi module with another one (cost roughly $8). This was done in 15 minutes as the old Thinkpads are highly serviceable.
He's pretty happy with the machine as a MBA replacement. (He's waiting for an update MBA model. That optimist.)
I myself converted my gaming rig into a hackintosh some time ago. Now I got a beefy "Mac Pro" for a fraction of the original's price. Also I can upgrade and fix it myself.
When my current 2013 MBP breaks I think I'm going to buy the small MacBook (the plain one) and do my heavy computation work on the Hackintosh.
If one wants a Mac it should buy one, not kind of "pirate" it to run on a Frankenstein system. It is the whole experience that counts.
If one isn't willing to pay for Apple's hardware, or not happy with the existing options, then get a PC and whatever flavor of open source UNIX variant and help improving the whole experience.
It's a pain to maintain, though. (Upgrades and getting the nVidia Web drivers etc.)
I want to actually test out how well the linux sub-system and bash works on Windows 10, to see if I just move my development there. I'm already on a lot of cross compatible apps that I can run on both systems. I should probably also just move to a virtualized/containerized local dev env on Linux, though, and be done with it.
I still love me my 11" MB Air, though because no-one has been able to touch Apple on the trackpad. Also, I love how sleep with closing and opening the lid....just works.
For me personally, I used to have a full-fledged personal recording studio, and the price of a Mac desktop was just ridiculous. There's no better platform for audio software than Apple.
They're much more stable now with Clover and UEFI installs.
>then get a PC and whatever flavor of open source UNIX variant and help improving the whole experience
Not realistic.
Would it make sense to have a shared component that applies on multiple models, and a smaller part to be model-specific?
There once was was a user that whined
his existing OS was so blind,
he’d do better to pirate
an OS that ran great
but found his hardware declined.
Please don’t steal Mac OS!
Really, that’s way uncool.
(C) Apple Computer, Inc.
There are some conditions for handling "10.12+" and "10.12-" in the Deploy.sh script, so i reckon it aims to support multiple versions.
The changelog mentions
"Fixed HD520 glitches on Sierra credit Pikeralpha"
so that implies it's the latest major release.
Almost tempted to try it on my XPS 15!