How it feels to be a linux fanboy these days

I'm a dumb yank, but I'd never advise anyone to go with an Apple product, largely cuz I'm poor but also cuz I don't like Apple's UI

Edit: total aside, but when I used to work overseas, my students were always shocked that I didn't have all Apple products

Somebody here told you to get a Mac?

gun cocking noise

macOS sucks shit, the only worse desktop OS is windows

Anytime someone hands me an apple product I fumble around like an 80 year boomer; and I am to believe they make superior/intuitive products? Atrocious keyboard on their laptop, atrocious trackpad that doesn't click for some reason, their phones are stuck with those slow ass gestures that take a business day to complete, and so on. I'd burn my house down if I had to own those pieces of junk.

Still prefer a Mac over windows

your fault for listening to this website

Yeah the keyboard and shortcuts are silly business but where I work the windows devices are practically unusable so it's the compromise I choose to make. Our VPN and ms teams on windows uses like all of the ram then reduces the battery life to 10 minutes and for reasons unknown to anyone the same applications on Mac don't do that.

Soon you'll be doing CMD shift 4 like the best of us and deprogram cut and paste from your mind you won't need it where we're going.

My favourite keyboard bit from Mac is plugging in a new one and it pops up with "press the key next to blah so we can configure it" quite literally hasn't worked once for any keyboard I have and I have loads. Ended up getting one that has explicit apple mode and support but the ergonomic one that has apple keys doesn't work xD. Wait until you get to multi monitor scaling and the fact 1440p is basically just non existent to apple. Fractional scaling? Nah. Integer scaled super resolution

Conversely I really do like the trackpad three finger swipe and full screen window things but using a mouse is pain. The magic mouse is also meme hardware.

Also for some reason where I work your choices are a HP windows laptop with 2 bytes of ram and a 1 core CPU and gods chosen 1366x768 res TN panel for the same price as a M5 Mac pro and I literally do not understand what's going on

did you buy the mouse w the charging port in the bottom too?

apple fans: it'll actually be better once you get used to it

steve jobs from his grave: lol, lmao

i didn't tell you this i told you specifically to use windows because everyone on this site besides me are paid operatives of Linus Torvalds and/or thinks the words 'glass keyboard keys that are slippery' are great.

"You want a 128 Key Apple Keyboard? Fuck you." - What my IT department at work says to me anytime I bring up how awful typing long bug tickets is with a magic mouse and macbook air keyboard. And I refuse to buy a dock with my own money.

i would never do that to anyone.

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Apple is the devil. Windows still suck, but it is easier to install Linux on. FOSS for LIFE.

Couldn't be me, I'd never recommend anything but Linux

KKKalifornia chose to unnecesarily make the most braindead FUCKING KEYBOARD possible

USian keyboard layout is a crime against humanity that should be purged by holy fire ignited together by all the trans coders in existence.

ABNT2 is the only sensible QWERTY layout because all the symbols you need are quick and easily accessible in an intuitive manner. QWERTY itself is shit tho, but that's another conversation all together.

That all being said, I never had the opportunity to try a Mac before and I would love to be able to test it once just for curiosity's sake.

if i had to use a mac i'd get a usb keyboard and do as much as possible from the terminal instead of the gui

Gottem

It should have been obvious tbh

you'll get used to it

What's the problem?

lol

use a Macbook for the hardware, the unix-based OS, and the good battery life. Then install Emacs and just live inside there. I occasionally look for GNU/Linux "ultrabooks" or Macbook competitors, but they're always a little worse in a few ways. Better because they use GNU/Linux though, of course.

it's the same fucking keyboard... it's just the software that behaves different.

which makes your problem mostly a skill issue :3 smug

To each their own. I like a MacBook, but I definitely raged about the stupid ass keyboard shortcuts for the first six months I had one.

Touchpad shortcuts are fucking magic though.

And it's nice it's a Unix operation system. It basically works like a Linux OS for the most part. There are some differences, but I find as long as you're not running your MacBook like a server, it doesn't matter.