Linux is the best OS at this point. Mac is nigh unusable IMO aside from the massive problems with apple being corpofash, and windows is just fucking bloatware at this point. If I didnt depend on so many windows programs, Id switch in a heartbeat.
If I didnt depend on so many windows programs
You could try finding decent replacements for each of them one at a time with FOSS options, to keep working the barrier to moving over down.
I make music and a lot of programs and plugins that I need are incompatible with linux, so unfortunately its not quite an option for me :C
Mac hides a lot of important settings and customization options behind needlessly complicated walls, they shove their shitty versions of existing softwares down your throat (not that windows doesnt do this, but its a lot easier to get around), they make it needlessly hard to repair your own machines, and they intentionally make cable management and compatability hard. My old job had me on a mac about 8 hours a day, so Im pretty familiar with the OS. Mac computers are just really overpriced pieces of machinery that dont offer much in return. It would frustrate me to no end when I had to go get some stupid fucking adapter for the third time that day because macs dont have standard outputs. On top of that, if you get a virus you basically turned your computer into an extremely expensive paperweight. As macs are made to not be fixable, a virus or minor hardware issue means you need to buy a whole ass computer.
Dont get me wrong, Im not saying that windows is vastly superior or anything. In fact, I would even say that macs are better for people who dont do well with technology. Macs also come with other advantages that windows or linux cant really provide. There are a lot of really good third party softwares only available for macs, apple provides super easy ways to link apple devices together, and even a factory-reset mac provides a large suite of decent general use programs that anyone with two braincells could figure out how to use. My main problem stems from Apple continually taking the worst aspects of capitalism and integrating it into their machinery at the cost of usability. There was no reason for them to remove the headphone jack from phones; it was literally only to sell more dongles. Theyre going to stop providing chargers with their phones so that you have to go buy a $30 cable after you just spend $1,000 on a new phone. Dont even get me started on fucking right to repair, because that makes me seethe. I take pride in the fact that I've done pretty much every repair on my family's computers by myself since I was like 14, and the fact that they want to make it illegal for me to help fix my dad's computer is a crock of horse shit. Not only do they make it nearly impossible for you to fix your computer, they make it nearly impossible for themselves to fix your computer. Most of the time when they say they fixed your device, all they did was transfer the data to a new computer or phone. Its wasteful, despicable, and it greatly upsets me.
If you like macs, I dont think any less of you. Theyre really good for some people and a lot of my friends who study Comp Sci with me use them. My distaste for them a personal thing. I try to be objective about these kinds of things because the last thing I want to be is a fucking "tech bro", but this is one case where I feel pretty firm in my convictions.
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I basically agree with you. I have a 2015 macbook pro and am very satisfied with it. But I heard the keyboard got all fucked up in the later MacBooks. What I don't know about is the virus side. I never had a problem but I make frequent backups with time machine and am under the impression that I could just revert to an earlier system state or just wipe the ssd and install from the time machine backup. And I'm actually pretty excited about their new chips. And as you said: the third party apps are amazing; Alfred alone is a huge reason why I wouldn't want to switch OSs at the moment.
All that being said, Apple is still cancer.
what actually is BunsenLabs? I've heard of it before but I have no idea what it actually does.
look, I dislike windows and mac just as much as the next guy, but who tf has any use for tails aside from pedophiles and dark web drug lords?
I switched from Fedora to Mint as having the proprietary drivers included by default saves a lot of headache in the setup phase.
if you got broadcom wifi drivers that shit sucks, I have a shitty broadcom that means most installers and installations don't support it ootb, so I have to move the pc to where I can connect it to ethernet if I want to install a new distro or fix a major problem. Thankfully over time I've memorized the things I need but I agree some manufacturers make it so much harder than it ever should be.
fair, I think compiling is one of the most confusing and stressful things to have to do when just learning linux. I know that if I had to compile drivers for internet when I started using linux I would probably be using windows right now.
I don't care about the market share of linux. If we need apple-esque marketing bs, and locking linux down, like cannonical is working on with ubuntu, to make linux palatable for the masses, I say fuck it. It's not worth it. Desktop linux is at a good place and only getting better, let the normies suffer with their windows and mac crap, if they so choose