This is one of the myriad reasons why I have a strong preference for Linux.
> This is one of the myriad reasons why I have a strong preference for Linux.
Feel free to tell me I'm a sell-out, I am happy to be one today.
Honest question. If you could get that on Linux, would you? and what kind of pricing would you consider reasonable? Is it something that would have to come with the computer (i.e. would you pay for it separately or would you only use it if it was "free" aka included with your laptop purchase)? Did you stick with the vendor-provided install or did you wipe and install your own preferred distro?
Howver, whatever crazy-stable and easy to use and well supported hypothetical Linux this is wouldn’t be compatible with my “real” Linux use cases so I would then also install Arch or whatever and live with constantly borked everything and just swap between my Arch “Dev” OS and my “Linux Mac” business/work/consumer OS.
Current Linux cannot be made “MacOS”-stable. But maybe in 5 years.
Stable?? Linux is a rock of stability, you must mean something else.
Or non-Ubuntu, software just randomly falling apart after 2 years. Like I need a newer kernel for a new Wi-Fi card but then I need a different GPU driver and that’s incompatible with some softwares UI library, so they update that but it has an incompatibility with something else.
Or how Linux still has Wi-Fi 6 totally broken.
Sure, Linux is rock stable if you have a production environment where everything is nailed down. But from an actual daily consumer user point of view it doesn’t feel stable. At all.
I love Linux. I love fixing it when it borks. But my god does it break every week.
Don't blame the good, for the things bad does.
I go months on my Debian desktop without issues, through upgrades, and only reboot for kernel updates!
I would love a Linux daily driver but I've had similar experiences to the above every time I've tried it for the last 15 years.
It says use it for non-GUI newest release upgrades? Why are you surprised the GUI disappeared?!
Also, why did to do that, if you wanted to keep the current version?
Anyhow, I never have such issues with Debian. Do bear in mind, Ubuntu(or any distro) is not Linux.
Are you going to call Linux "unstable", because you get a crappy phone with Android(which is judt more Linux).
Glad you like your machine.
What's your machine+distro?
(brew addresses a lot of the issues though, even if I do have to remember to run gdu instead of du (for gnu du))
One problem that I have is all that all those mods and add-ons are out there, but there's a real mindset that "everything must be an app" and a pursuant mindset that "might as well charge for it". I don't mind paying for a complicated app, but there are certain basic features that used to be served by the freeware model on Macs that just aren't any more, and my impression is that things are heading ever more in that direction. (As well as in the direction of subscriptions over app purchases, which are right out for me for basic utility needs.)
You mentioned Rectangle.app and Hammerspoon, which are both open source. Do you have any good recommendations for where to look for other high-quality open-source mods and add-ons for macOS?
Personally I'm okay with paying for software (though I do whine about it from time to time). Yeah it should just be built in functionality, but someone devoted their time to building a thing, so I don't begrudge them a couple bucks for it - so long as it's a one-time purchase and not a recurring subscription model for unchanging functionality.
Being an average Joe is fine with me.