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by jillesvangurp 648 days ago
I tend to wait a few months. Most Mac OS releases are relatively not that important to me.

I use Firefox and absolutely none of the i* stuff (photos, mail, etc.). Essentially all my tooling is OSS stuff that also works on Linux. So, most Mac OS release notes to me read something like "I don't use that. I don't use that either. Don't care. Don't care. Whatever. Etc." There's very little to get excited about in this release. I don't even own an iphone and use a Pixel 6. So the integration with iphone stuff is also not relevant to me.

I like macs mainly for their hardware, which is awesome and completely and utterly unrivaled in the market by any PC manufacturer for some reason. A few manufacturers come close but you always end up with some compromise on the thing being loud and hot, or underpowered, having some crap touchpad thing with a a nipple (all Lenovo's), having a relatively shit screen, etc. I love having a laptop that is fast, quiet, cool, where I never even consider plugging in a mouse, with a beautiful screen, etc. And I like not having to waste brain cycles on drivers and other crap to get that hardware working.

The main point of Mac OS for me is that it's enough like Linux that I don't mind it. I use iTerm2 for command line stuff. Intellij, VS Code, and the usual range of stuff for communicating that you'd be able to install via snap, flatpak etc. on Linux. Mostly some of that stuff can be a bit flaky on Linux but I managed to get most of that working in the past.

I actually used Arch for half a year for work. Worked great. Except the laptop was a dreary thing with basically crap everything (screen, CPU, GPU, track pad, keyboard). So, I was happy to get back to a mac book pro.

So with this update, I'll wait a few months before risking an upgrade.
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wwwlouishinofun 648 days ago
A month ago I moved all my information and plugins to Firefox, I mainly used plugins for the Android platform, but this company seems to make little profit, its Android browser has a poor UI so far (I need multiple tabs to arrange horizontally on a large screen), I finally switched back to Chrome, and now a troublesome thing is that there is no perfect browser

The interaction of the trackpad with shortcut keys has certain advantages, but I still want to use the mouse (remote buttons, making ppt is more comfortable, etc.), but the MacBook has poor support for wireless mice, and there will be a feeling of fast and slow (it is said that it is useful to achieve a particularly high rate of return), I even found a wired mouse with multiple buttons for my MacBook to use (the scroll wheel can be toggled left and right, and there is also a mouse with side buttons, I only found Logitech's MX580, but unfortunately he does not have a wired version)

I also like the hardware of the Mac and look forward to the M4

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