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Ask HN: Do you miss Linux after switching to MacBook

4 点作者 mraza007超过 4 年前
People who have been using linux but later on switched to MacOS&#x2F;Macbook how do you feel.<p>Honestly I’m really tempted to buy new MacBook Air with the new chip but I have this fear of missing out on linux

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monster2control超过 4 年前
I&#x27;ll give you my personal experience.<p>I miss using my Mac day-to-day since I started using Linux day-to-day at work. I still have a MacBook Pro, but I barely use it any more as I&#x27;ve tried to limit the amount of time on a computer outside of working hours.<p>I use Linux Mint with Cinnamon and for the most part, there is a lot of similarity. I use Guake for my drop down terminal like I have with iTerm2 and I use Chrome as my browser just because I&#x27;ve never bothered to transfer my stuff to Firefox.<p>But I do miss Safari. I truly find it better and faster. I use Bitwarden for password management and it works for both.<p>But for the most part, they are the same experiences. The true miss is the hardware, the battery life and the keyboard comfort of the MacBook.<p>I&#x27;m on my MacBook now and I get 8 plus hours on a single charge, I can type comfortable on a couch for hours and the trackpad just works perfectly so I never yearn for a mouse.<p>For work I have a ThinkPad P52 and the Linux support is lacking. Poor Power management allows me to get maybe 3-4 hours of battery, the trackpad sucks and needs a hack to work after kernel 5.4.26 for some reason, sound works but not well and the Nvidia driver sucks (official) glitches all over the place and waking from sleep requires a log out and log in to fix artifacts.<p>But in all honestly, I&#x27;m not sure what I would miss of linux if I only had a MacBook again. There just isn&#x27;t anything I can do on Linux that I can&#x27;t do on Mac, but there is plenty I can&#x27;t do with Linux that I can with a Mac, simple things like airdrop and copy-paste sync with my iPhone, text messages on my laptop. I&#x27;m sure if I had an android I might regain some of those things, but it&#x27;s just all so seamless on Mac OOTB.<p>I use docker and an Ubuntu image when I need linux to test things. Brew gives me access to almost every linux app I can think of and there is just a better amount of top quality paid and free app on the Mac in comparison to Linux.<p>Anyway, not sure any of that helps, but that&#x27;s my 2 cents.
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rovr138超过 4 年前
I switched to Mac’s in 2011. Was using Linux for quite some time before that.<p>I still run Linux on servers and some old computers (my 2011 MBA runs Linux and is probably sitting next to the sofa).<p>I don’t miss much. There are some things initially I had that I wanted to recreate.<p>I missed conky showing me info on the desktop and I tried to use... geektool? for that. But now I just have a widget on the menu bar with system info and I have some scripts I can run that give me whatever else I need easily enough.<p>Moving OS after a long time, you’ll want to figure how to do things the same way as you’re used to. That’s the only major thing.<p>But how do I feel? No driver issues, no battery issues, no performance issues.<p>Honestly, on a laptop at least, there are so many drivers and a MacOS supports theirs great. The trackpad is amazing and I miss it when I use someone else’s Linux machine.<p>I don’t miss much. The transition was simple. Using homebrew to install the GNU tools is a must but remember this if you build tools to share with other coworkers on macOS. That’s a big one. BetterTouchTool is a must for me.<p>If you have an iPhone, the integration is great too.
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factorialboy超过 4 年前
I came back to Linux this year after 3+ years of full-time MacOS and MBP.<p>Linux feels like a breath of fresh air.
ankur_unitalks超过 4 年前
Its been 2 yr, I have switched from the ubuntu (use for 8 yrs) to Mac, and I am not missing it.<p>Sometimes I do just because of SSD, my Mac have 128 GB space rather then 1 TB in my ubuntu. but that&#x27;s ok.
slipwalker超过 4 年前
after 20+ years of linux, besides the possibility of upgrading the machine itself ( add more RAM, swap the ssd ) which is less and less common even with &quot;ordinary&quot; laptops, and the hefty price tag, i really don&#x27;t miss anything else...