"It just works" -- Is Apple too large now? Is this a QA problem, product team problem? Management? Catalina is still stumbling and Im surprised to be honest after the past 4 years.
There are decent build PC laptops but you have to run Windows or Linux on them. Windows is a dumpster fire these days with ads in the start menu, the use of "dark patterns" to herd people into MS cloud, and out of control unnecessary telemetry. Linux is fine only if you have a lot of time on your hands to troubleshoot edge case issues and hunt for drivers. Linux also still (through no fault of its own) can't run a lot of apps that many people need.
Compare the experience with Windows for example, where disconnecting from your external monitors pushes all applications and windows to the remaining monitors, and doesn't restore them when the external monitor is reconnected.
macOS also handles mixed-DPI really well, no other vendor even comes close, Windows simply scales according to the monitor most of the application window is on, resulting in ugly resizing of applications when moving from one monitor to another.
I don't know what you're talking about with regards to "turning on HiDPI", can you elaborate?
Huh? I have a dock that I disconnect and reconnect from all the time; windows move onto my laptop screen when I disconnect, and move back onto my docked screen when I reconnect.
What's wrong with 4k monitors? I'm typing this on Fedora machine with one (default install with no tinkering, Gnome on Wayland).
Mixed DPI is not coming to X11 displays. If you insist on X11, you are going to have bad time.
macOS can scale different parts of an application differently depending on which screen it is on. So if you are in the process of moving an application from one screen to another, it doesn't change size mid-move.
Windows can't do that, and I've even seen applications where all windows belonging to an application use the same DPI (chosen based on which window is in focus), regardless of the DPI of the screen the window itself is on.
So it seems to me the integration of mixed-DPI into window rendering APIs was not well handled by the development team behind its implementation in Windows.
The most common "solution" I see is lowering the resolution of the high-DPI display, but that's not a solution, that's actually not even a workaround, it is literally removing the problem by pretending my screen is not as good as it is.
I do kind of like MacOS, but am concerned about their lack of strong interest in it.
I would pay for a "vertically integrated" open hardware Linux laptop. I've seen some promising projects but none are mature enough.
The second issue is apps, but that can be mitigated by having a Windows VM.
I would argue that any major Linux distro at this point "just work" just as well as MacOS
Yeah, there may actually be close to a dozen people commenting here!
>I would argue that any major Linux distro at this point "just work" just as well as MacOS
Given my perennial attempts to switch to Linux which are inevitably thwarted by aggravating driver bugs and incompatibility issues with X Windows and Wayland (both), I'm inclined to disagree.
I have no beef with Linux, but we have to be honest about what it needs to be capable of to compete with MacOS for the general user unable or unwilling to hack at it a bit.
If the solution in any way involves "enter this command", you have lost the vast, vast majority of users. Those users will never have any idea that "Catalina broke SSH".
You're right, my statement may have been too strong.
We do know that Catalina isn't broken for everyone though as alluded to by others in this thread. No one in my company or anyone I personally know with a MacBook has been affected. There must be another interaction happening.
Then I'm having issues with PTP from my phone. Windows is fine but Plasma is broken. The phone also offers an MTP mode which thankfully works.
When I bought a Lenovo netbook in 2015, I was unable to set the screen brightness. It took a few years but eventually the issue got fixed with a new version of Kubuntu.
On my brand new ThinkPad T495 I'm having an issue with the graphics drivers, which crash and require me to issue an ACPI reboot when I close the lid and reopen it again. Pretty sure it's this issue as the error messages, symptoms and working workarounds all match. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/issues/883
https://rubyinstaller.org/ Ruby for Windows.
I don't know why Ruby on Rails require Linux, but those reasons are not technical.
Ubuntu is generally even easier since they bundle in proprietary drivers.
I know my hardware has the ability to change my entire MAC address - I don't get why they are doing this.
The leading octets in MAC addresses are often called "vendor prefixes", and are assigned to various hardware vendors. Apple probably wants to ensure that all their devices show up in ARP scans and MAC lookups as Apple devices.
This is related to the thing where what customers want most is bug fixes for existing bugs but what marketing wants most is new features to sell to new customers and marketing tends to win, which causes the number of bugs to go up rather than down over time.
For those business users, it just still works. For developers it's a problem.
UNIX developers, well, support OEMs that sell BSD and GNU/Linux laptops.
Then even before Catalina, my AirPods mic seems to act odd, can hardly hear it and it messses with audio output too when listening to music, sounds like I’m listening to hold music on a telephone unless I disable the mic using a third party app. I think having a old Bluetooth chip might be the reason though since I have a older MacBook while it works great on my iPhone.
Very annoying and can't find a resolution.
I can't blame them too much. It's probably worth it.