Though I haven't used MacOS in a very long time so I could be wrong.
Though I haven't used MacOS in a very long time so I could be wrong.
I also manage my own Ubuntu desktop for work, and had to reinstall the system 3 times from scratch because it magically stopped working. In the end it turned out to be something with a new kernel, but it took me, dunno, 2 days to debug.
Oh sorry, might not have been very clear, thats what I meant.
As I say I haven't used MacOS in a while, but in my eyes its always been the strongest choice in terms of stability, with the tradeoff being control and to an extent (depending on what your doing with it) compatibility.
Windows seems to specialise in compatibility, Linux in control (I prefer saying that than customisation, which in my view makes light of it) and MacOS in stability.
Linux will let you shoot yourself in the foot. That is not a Linux problem, PEBKAC.
It's the reason I didn't move to Linux at home when Mac laptops were getting so awful a few years ago.
My work-issued Macbook Pro regularly forgets which monitor (my external monitor or the built-in display) is the primary monitor and moves the dock and task bar between them seemingly at random.
My mouse sensitivity is cranked all the way up but my mouse still feels like it's mired in tar compared to my Windows and Linux machines.
The dock is always in the way. I can hide it when a window approaches/overlaps it, but it often takes multiple swipes with the mouse to get it to reappear. Completely removing the dock (which would be my preference) does not seem to be an option. I was able to move it to the left side of the screen, which is better - why take up so much valuable vertical screen real estate with a top bar and a dock on the bottom???
So... I don't know. I'm not seeing it personally. For me Gnome, KDE, Windows 10, and Windows all provide a better GUI desktop experience than macOS.
I set mine to around 40 seconds. I haven’t seen my dock a year or so.
Note I’ve not jumped to Monterey yet so this is untested there.
I think you need to increase the tracking speed in "Mouse" preferences. Mine is about 75% and I can move across a 1440px screen with just a small flick.
The last straw for me (not stability related) was when I needed to scan something. Cue hours spent in the terminal… still no scanning.
MacOS will keep working for years for most everyone and has all basic functionality in place or easily installable. The same is true for Linux as a server, which I use every day.
My work PC has the uptime of 3 months right now. I've been using this particular PC for 26 months, with Ubuntu installed. No crashes. No problems. No slowdowns.
These testimonials where someone says "but it's <insert reasons that confirm it's bad>" are difficult to relate with. I also scan and print from time to time, I'm not advanced user of scanners/printers - but after plugging the devices in via USB, they did their job.
I had the pleasure of trying to work with containers on Mac the other day. After 10 minutes I gave up. Mac is a great machine but it's not for me, it definitely has its audience and I can tell it's great because it helps many types of users cut a lot of corners. I'm sure I could get containers to work with M1, if there was any kind of benefit to use a machine which is, hardware-wise, slower than the beefy one I use with Linux.
If testimonials about Linux being unstable are hard to relate to, you are absolutely in the minority of computer users or you have not used Linux very long. I still remember the days where I had to (lightly) edit C source code to get my WiFi drivers working...
I used it for a long time. I had problems with nvidia drivers, before that I had problems with modem drivers and the list goes on, from finding where xorg.conf is to which thing I need to modify so that I can have multiple monitors running. I tried many distros, I used i3wm for extended period of time until the keyboard navigation only started to bore me.
I believe my "membership card" has been shown.
Despite the problems, PopOS and Ubuntu have been very stable for me for the past 2.5 years. Problem is also often in users, who are quick to blame software when it doesn't work the way they imagined it must work. I haven't used software that instantly works great. However, for development (and running containers in particular), Linux has been stable and a total workhorse. I can even put up with uglier UI. It's also the only OS that I can shut down forcibly via button and it won't fall apart.
Could it be that the, often loud minority of angry users, simply reports problems because:
1. they imply knowledge and thus earn internet fame points? 2. they purposely twist the truth because they can? 3. they aren't particularly advanced users to begin with?
- Lots of people happily use "a dumpster fire" where you have "hours spent in the terminal… still no scanning" and are completely unbothered by serious issues you are describing.
- Your exaggeration is absolutely ridiculous.
Criticism is fine, but at least make it sound vaguely plausible.
If you like it, knock yourself out. I'll stick to OS's that employ product managers for my daily drivers.
My working mac hangs about 1 time in 3 days. With completely un-addressable memory leak and lag. And close everything don't help either. The only way I found to solve it reliably is a reboot. While my linux vm and main windows system lives like forever (heck, I don't even bother to reboot them if not a update, because why?).
From my perspective, I though you are just kidding. I don't even see it runs perfectly more than one week.
Thats probably why its so stable for you, you know it well, and that increased control of it allows you to make it as stable as you need.
However, generally speaking, Linux does not specialise in stability
Does that imply that Linux is not stable? I've had my Arch installation for a full year and it has never broken down on me. No package has ever broken, and updates are always smooth thanks to pacman.
Meanwhile, I can recall a handful of instances where bugs slipped into the macOS userspace in the last year (and made it to the front page of Hacker News)
I think I've almost never seen someone connect to a projector from Linux without some kind of glitch along the way.
My Linux machine on the other hand has never even once done that.
The desktop environment is not, no. Various applications one is likely to run on it are not, compared to some closed-source alternatives, including those provided on macOS.
Heavy Linux on the Desktop user for about 10 years, here (~2001-2011). I still try it periodically. I see a lot more bad glitches, X/Wayland crashes (may as well be a whole system crash, on a desktop), and application crashes, on Linux than elsewhere. I find it's most stable when I build up from something minimal and hand-configure everything, but I just don't have time for that anymore, and stopped finding it entertaining years ago.
So many variables (mainly who's using the computer and for what) go into this that its impossible to speak for everyone, but yeh generally speaking macOS is more stable than linux. You might have experienced more stability, whereas someone else might have experienced more control using macOS than on linux.
The second painpoint is the keyboard layout, which also sucks ass; 1. ~|"@, are all in the wrong places. 2. Some idiot decided to prioritice control keys ahead of functions keys, so I have to press fn to use standard debugging keys.
My i3/arch setup is far more reliable and ergonomic.