| I've been using Linux for more than 20 years. For many years it was my primary computer platform, until I moved to the Mac. I recently put the latest Ubuntu LTS Linux on a spare laptop, as I needed a laptop. Sure, it was fun configuring everything for a day or so. But then it started to grind me down, as Linux always seem to do (for a personal computer - it's fantastic on servers). Then I had a new, big project come in and bought a new MacBook Pro 13" with the M1 chip. Wow. I have never had a computer anywhere near as nice as this. Very fast. Light. Days of battery. Screen is fantastic. Best keyboard I've ever used. Best trackpad I've ever used by far. Never gets hot, barely warm, fan rarely comes on. I can do things like extend my screen to my iPad Pro 12.9" OR use Universal Control to control both from either keyboard/mouse/trackpad. It has the Touchpad, which I'm undecided about but mostly like. I work on Linux servers all the time, and the free/open source iTerm2 is a really really good terminal app. It's BSD Unix under the hood, so most Linux commands also work here, and there's Homebrew to install whatever you like. And the productivity apps are fantastic, many of which only exist on the Apple platforms, like Omnifocus. So yes, I like Linux, but I'm so much more productive using a Mac these days. So I don't really get where the OP is coming from. Like window tracking - yes, I've used that on Linux but I actually find it equally annoying. If it's on, I don't like it. If it's off, I sometimes miss it ;-) |