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Same experience. I tried, but Linux just isn’t ready to be used as a general OS right now. I’ve dug through message boards and bug reports, and a lot of the fe

Same experience. I tried, but Linux just isn’t ready to be used as a general OS right now. I’ve dug through message boards and bug reports, and a lot of the features that MacOS has will never be implemented. I’m taking about features released 13+ years ago on OS X 10.4.

boogies 6y ago
> a lot of the features that MacOS has will never be implemented Care to name any? Other times I’ve heard things like this on HN I’ve been able to locate them.
- mindfulhack 6y ago
  A big one I will sorely miss as I transition to Linux (and it's the only one I can think of right now), is the ability to rename and move around files while they are open! OK here's another, very related: the ability to have apps remember their open files when you quit and re-open them. These are significant productivity boosters, and I will miss them. It's definitely a trade-off, but now Apple has tipped the scales too much in favour of Linux...for me.
  - jhasse 6y ago
    Both of those things work under Linux for me. I guess it depends on the apps?
    - mindfulhack 6y ago
      Can you give examples of which apps you noticed it working for? and what desktop environment/distro? I will most certainly test.
      - jhasse 6y ago
        VSCode and Sublime Text remember the files they had opened. And renaming files while they are played back works fine with mpv.
ryukafalz 6y ago
> Same experience. I tried, but Linux just isn’t ready to be used as a general OS right now. Highly, highly subjective. I use Linux as my main OS and have for many years.
- freedomben 6y ago
  Agreed. I've used Linux full time on the desktop, laptop, and on the server for over 10 years now and I have a better experience there than mac (which I had to use on my work machine for 6 months due to employer only allowing macs). Of course everything is not perfect, but that wasn't true in mac either. I had to hack and shim so many things to get my system to behave the way I wanted to. There were also horrible bugs like where plugging in an external (Apple branded) monitor would cause the laptop screen to go black forever until I held down the power button.
nicoffeine 6y ago
I'd be interested in the features that you were missing as well. I just bought parts for a desktop that's literally 4x cheaper than a similarly specced Mac Pro with the usual caveats (Ryzen instead of Xeon, non ECC, etc.) It will have to be pretty rough for me to consider investing anything beyond a Mac Mini so I can have access to Xcode once my MBP dies.
- vladvasiliu 6y ago
  In my experience it's mostly "convenience" / "nice to haves" related to "modern things" such as entertainment. Of course, this excludes any specialty software you may need that may be unavailable for Linux, but I suppose that's not your case since you're considering this. For example changing from a low-resolution (non-hidpi) screen to a hidpi one doesn't work that great. You want to watch netflix or prime video in FHD? Not going to happen (although, admittedly, that's not linux's fault but a DRM-related decision). I've noticed that, as usual, all this is highly dependent on what one does with the computer. If it's a laptop often used with a high resolution external screen and for on-line media consumption, the experience can be less than ideal. If it's a working computer used in fixed conditions, the experience can be outright great. My "work" computer is a desktop linux with a UHD screen and I absolutely love working on it. But for random hanging around on the internet, watching a movie or whatever, I'll grab my macbook.

boogies 6y ago

> a lot of the features that MacOS has will never be implemented Care to name any? Other times I’ve heard things like this on HN I’ve been able to locate them.

mindfulhack 6y ago
A big one I will sorely miss as I transition to Linux (and it's the only one I can think of right now), is the ability to rename and move around files while they are open! OK here's another, very related: the ability to have apps remember their open files when you quit and re-open them. These are significant productivity boosters, and I will miss them. It's definitely a trade-off, but now Apple has tipped the scales too much in favour of Linux...for me.
- jhasse 6y ago
  Both of those things work under Linux for me. I guess it depends on the apps?
  - mindfulhack 6y ago
    Can you give examples of which apps you noticed it working for? and what desktop environment/distro? I will most certainly test.
    - jhasse 6y ago
      VSCode and Sublime Text remember the files they had opened. And renaming files while they are played back works fine with mpv.

ryukafalz 6y ago

> Same experience. I tried, but Linux just isn’t ready to be used as a general OS right now. Highly, highly subjective. I use Linux as my main OS and have for many years.

freedomben 6y ago
Agreed. I've used Linux full time on the desktop, laptop, and on the server for over 10 years now and I have a better experience there than mac (which I had to use on my work machine for 6 months due to employer only allowing macs). Of course everything is not perfect, but that wasn't true in mac either. I had to hack and shim so many things to get my system to behave the way I wanted to. There were also horrible bugs like where plugging in an external (Apple branded) monitor would cause the laptop screen to go black forever until I held down the power button.

nicoffeine 6y ago

I'd be interested in the features that you were missing as well. I just bought parts for a desktop that's literally 4x cheaper than a similarly specced Mac Pro with the usual caveats (Ryzen instead of Xeon, non ECC, etc.) It will have to be pretty rough for me to consider investing anything beyond a Mac Mini so I can have access to Xcode once my MBP dies.

vladvasiliu 6y ago
In my experience it's mostly "convenience" / "nice to haves" related to "modern things" such as entertainment. Of course, this excludes any specialty software you may need that may be unavailable for Linux, but I suppose that's not your case since you're considering this. For example changing from a low-resolution (non-hidpi) screen to a hidpi one doesn't work that great. You want to watch netflix or prime video in FHD? Not going to happen (although, admittedly, that's not linux's fault but a DRM-related decision). I've noticed that, as usual, all this is highly dependent on what one does with the computer. If it's a laptop often used with a high resolution external screen and for on-line media consumption, the experience can be less than ideal. If it's a working computer used in fixed conditions, the experience can be outright great. My "work" computer is a desktop linux with a UHD screen and I absolutely love working on it. But for random hanging around on the internet, watching a movie or whatever, I'll grab my macbook.