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Until recently, MacOS was the only OS with all of the following available natively: a Unix shell, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite. The fact that they made great hardware also helped.

I guess at this point it's just inertia, but if there were a comparable alternative I'd love to move.

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Definitely inertia. In 2004 when I moved to Mac OS X 10.3 it was amazing as a Linux server app developer. It has largely been downhill since 10.6 or .8. For every step forwards, Apple seems to take two steps back for my preferences. The personal cost of migrating from macOS and iOS in terms of time and interoperability with my family at this point are too big a price for me to pay, but regardless I spend too much mental energy on how I would migrate, and to what. I have bought a bunch of Linux and Windows laptops to try them but never can make the move.

It is really disappointing that Apple does not make a back end server dev friendly computer (hardware) or operating system anymore and I have apps and workflows I like that are not amenable to an actual Linux main computer.

Feel free to see my other issues in my comment history (rants?). Especially, where are my f-keys?

You can adjust the F-keys in the preferences. That and remapping caps lock to control is something I always do.

Not universally, and not at all for some apps (like Wine apps). And the point is irrelevant because the problem is they are not physically tactile keys, not that there is a touch strip of areas that mimic f-keys.

Also, no f-keys in MemTest86 and other Linux programs.

For me, it’s adobe creative suite, Unix shell, compileable ruby stuffs, attention to privacy and security.

With windows I presume my machine compromised and a keylogger installed.

While this might be an exaggeration, I feel a similar way. If I’m on a windows computer I am just a lot more careful with what websites I visit.

I must note though, if I had my own windows machine I would probably feel better about it.

>I guess at this point it's just inertia

Inertia increases velocity with age.

I'm too old to tweak every stupid thing on a system any longer.

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