There’s a similar incentive to this Windows 11 one, but for macOS. Yikes.
Not sure why that warrants a yikes; macOS is far more usable than Windows 11. I’d go so far as to call it downright pleasant in comparison.
Yeah mac os is the best middle ground. It is a lot more like Linux than Windows will ever be
I wouldn’t say so. PowerToys and WSL are absolutely incredible tools for advanced users.
I understand the powertoys love but what does wsl give you that you don’t have with zsh & MacOS?
I run powershell on my Mac because I think pwsh is the bomb but I don’t get how wsl gives you anything that isn’t there on the Mac already, unless it’s a specific Linux wsl distro you greatly prefer.
Not the OP but I agree WSL doesn’t offer much over Mac unless you care about GNU vs BSD.
On average, yeah, but when it’s worse, it’s the most bafflingly bad.
Like why is the only way to be able to open files in a hidden folder to remember a keyboard shortcut? There’s no icon, and you can’t type a subfolder name.
Windows’ weird UX of having that temporary view setting in the context menu makes no sense, but at least I don’t have to Google how to do it every time.
Maybe everyone has their biases, but MacOS is often terrible in comparison to Windows, at least in my experience. Hell simply things like snapping windows appropriately MacOS absolutely is trash at still.
It’s always seemed to me that MacOS is still suffering from design decisions made back in the 80’s when it was running on a single 9" monochrome screen, and Apple is far too stubborn to change it.
At least Microsoft isn’t afraid to change things up, even if a lot of their UI changes end up pretty questionable.
Different workflow, macOS does not expect you to snap windows. I’m not 100% familiar with the macOS workflow, but I know it’s different.
I’ve been forced to use windows for some propriety software during uni. I got a laptop from IT with higher specs than my old one and:
- It runs worse than my old shitty laptop
- It boots up slower than my old shitty laptop
- The battery icon was missing from the taskbar for some ungodly reason (I had to get IT to force an update)
- The internet it gets is way worse than my old shitty laptop. I do not know why
So yeah I’m not using Windows 11 ever again
I use windows 11 at work. I run solidworks, which is a 3D CAD/modeling program so my work computer is reasonably powerful with a decent chunk of RAM.
My laptop from 2020 uses mint. It’s faster, although I havent tried to use solidworks on it because I’d have no idea where to start on getting that to run.
Only way I’ve found to get solidworks to run on Linux is to run a windows 11 VM using virtual machine manager (VMM). Ideally with GPU passthrough, among other optimizations. Kind of runs like shit on my Thinkpad T580 though, which is to be expected for an 8th gen quad core i5 laptop from 2018…
I’ve tried FreeCAD recently, and it isn’t that bad. The latest updates (v1.0 and beyond) have made it much better than it used to be. It helps to watch video guides, as the workflows are a little different. I found this one to be helpful: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9cqs3oTzpac
Every time I’ve tried to use freecad its been basically useless due to nothing working the way it does in pretty much every other CAD program. Every once in a while I give it a shot because someone swears that its been fixed.
Oh FreeCAD definitely works in strange ways, mainly in the UX department, where it still needs work (kinda like GIMP does). Building a model in a broad sense is similar to solidworks (sketches extruded to 3d, cutting off material from there, etc), but understanding which workbench does what and navigating things is kind of a pain, even now.
Then again, it was similarly frustrating when I had to use fusion 360 instead of solidworks for a project. CAD programs are generally complex pieces of software, so it isn’t surprising that switching to one you aren’t familiar with really slows you down.
Yeah i have to use W11 for work and the brand new Dell XPS, upper mid range, they gave me compared to my 2017 i3 with linux and all this is true.
About the half the time i boot it and the network just doesn’t connect. Wired or WiFi. Have to unplug the dock and reconnect it. DNS will drop for 10s at random.
There’s times my laptop shows it age like i was bulk processing a load of photos, just resizing, and it took several minutes when the newer cpu was probably several seconds but that’s the hardware, not the software.
I’m gonna ask a dumb question here and hope for a not dumb answer. When the author says “I know UI consistency has been a dirty word ever since the web and then iOS rose to prominence”, what exactly are they referring to?
I’ve been a computer geek since 1987. I started out on dos and spent a lot of my time in Windows, but I’ve used Linux as well for more than 25 years now.
This article was as useless and as stupid as I anticipated. They clearly are happy in Linux and they were not going to be happy in Windows.
I’m quite happy in both. I like both. I think there’s advantages and disadvantages to both. I will definitely say that there are some things I really prefer in Linux. But in recent years, a lot of that I’ve gotten to incorporate over on the window side things.
I now have bash under Windows. I have the compose key under Windows thanks to a third party utility called wincompose. It’s free.
It doesn’t take me excessive clicks to do things. In Windows I mean.
And thanks to modern technology, not quite everything is upgraded under Linux with APK anymore.
I’ve had very few problems under Windows. And I’ve had very few problems under Linux. As far as system stability.
Use what you like. Use what you enjoy. Use what works better for you. For me, that’s both.
While I agree with your overall sentiment, I also think that calling the article “useless and stupid” kind of ignores that the author explicitly states in the very first sentence that they can only present the perpesective of a long-time exclusive Linux user. Undoubtedly, had the author been a longtime user of both Linux and Windows, as is your case, then surely they would have had a different experience and conslusions all together.
I’m not saying the author isn’t biased in favour of Linux - all I am saying is that they seem to be pretty upfront about it from the very get go. Had they pretended to supposedly be writing an objective, scientifically valid comparison, then I would concede there is an element of stupidity. But that’s not the case - they’re pretty transparent as to who they are and what perspective they are describing their experience from.
Tldr: arguably its more like some sort of guilty-pleasure entertainment for Linux users rather than “stupid”
Oh, yes… to input specific characters or disable caps lock, one needs to hack the registry with hex codes…
Stunning Windows goes still as user-friendly.
Edit: If you were lacking a reason to try modern Linux user Interfaces, try GNOME desktop with PaperWM. It works great on my 40’ display…
You can use PowerToys for Windows to (among other things) disable caps lock. I’m no fan of Microsoft, but they do provide PowerToys for free and there is a lot of useful stuff in it.
PowerToys is the sole reason I somewhat get along with binbows on my work laptop.
I linked to the top search result.
Stunning Windows goes still as user-friendly.
I mean I get we are supposed to hate Windows here but highlighting a specific thing that very few people would even want to try and use that as a reason to doubt it’s user friendliness is just picking at straws. There’s tons of reasons that Windows can be interpreted as not user friendly already.
Matches my experiences between using Linux at home for decades, and being forced to deal with Windows at work. Luckily, I can drop all the shitty problems on IT…
Thanks! Lol
God I really hope someone figures out Wayland+Wacom. I cannot wait to escape Windows
I’m stuck on windows for HDR compatibility reasons.
Absolutely sucks. I hate it so much. You can’t do anything with the computer.
Ah, yes! Light gray text on white background. Perfectly legible.
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Windows 7 was peak Windows, at least from a usability standpoint.
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Win2000 was my favorite. I ran multiple beta ISOs up until it’s official release. Thanks to Microsoft Partners uploading them to newsgroups.
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I dread having to use my work laptop for this exact reason.
Sleep/Wake issues
I’ve had plenty of sleep/wake issues on Linux, including on my current setup which is Bazzite (based on Fedora, which the author uses). Currently on Bazzite, some things don’t restart correctly after a reboot (specifically Gnome tweaks and OpenRGB). Not the worst issue but still annoying.
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This is the default behavior on macOS
A desktop operating system needs to come with a solid, serviceable email client. I consider this non-optional.
The only truly useful email client I’ve used is the default macOS one. I am actively taking suggestions for Linux. I tried one called Evolution I think? It was ok but didn’t support all my different email providers. I tried Thunderbird but it baffles me that I can’t view an email and have the list of emails open on the side.
I honestly think the author might have a better time with macOS. Not that they would prefer it over Linux, but a lot of what they complain about is better on Mac.
Whenever I experienced a short stretch of time where I felt “perhaps this isn’t so bad?”, one (or multiple) of the problems and issues described above would snap me out of it.
This was my experience trying to switch to Linux until very recently (until I started using Bazzite). Even now I still regularly have issues I need to debug, but it’s much, much more stable than previous distros I tried.
I tried Thunderbird but it baffles me that I can’t view an email and have the list of emails open on the side.
You can do that. That is how I use thunderbird.
I don’t remember if I had to change the default config, but I think it comes like that, no? Anyways, if not, it’s probably an easy setting somewhere to get it how you like.
Have a look at https://www.getmailspring.com/
I also cant use deepsleep with linux, suspend ro ram or disk doesnt work well and my pc will hang but i can live with this since i never had anny other issues with endeavoros. Being in charge of when and how updates happen and how fast they install is enough to never go back to winodws. I just need freecad to become good.
Goes on to write an article with a bunch of issues that very few people will actually have. It’s like he’s deliberately gone out of his way to write a karma whoring post on Reddit.
What do you feel like are the issues that normal users dont get?
This guy never even attempted to give windows a real shot. He complains about not being able to install windows on a drive that already has an OS on it, without getting rid of the other OS, for crying out loud
