Switching from macOS: The Basics
My own burning hatred towards Apple runs a little hotter than most, and I have been seriously googling (and trying) alternatives since 2012.<p>That was when my $9000 Mac Pro — which had been a great machine, and still was, except for the little detail about not having been updated since 2009 and thus being stuck with USB 2 (!!!) to say nothing of Thunderbolt and any kind of modern accoutrements — started to feel like a personal affront, a sneering <i>fuck you</i> directed at not just me, but everybody remotely like me. (Wow!!! <i>Déjà vu</i> bro!!)<p>Nevertheless, I didn&#x27;t switch then, and all of us complainers won&#x27;t switch now either.<p>Because <i>the fucking OS</i>.<p>I&#x27;ve tried every iteration of Ubuttnu, CentOS, and FreeBSD since. Even OpenWhatever, before the goblins bought it. I have Thinkpads and Dell XPS &quot;Developer Editions&quot; and a drawer full of other crap like that.<p>Executive summary: it&#x27;s all garbage time. It&#x27;s like going back 10+ years. Nothing works right, on any of them. Copy&#x2F;paste, batteries, wireless networking, drag and drop, high-res displays, multilingual input, even like fucking word processing and email and image editors and terminal programs... it&#x27;s all like Mac OS X Jaguar level.<p>We can&#x27;t give Apple the finger, even though we want to (and definitely after last week, we <i>all</i> want to) because there literally isn&#x27;t an OS in the world that can touch Mac OS for general-purpose workstation&#x2F;laptop use. (For niche and limited-purpose, yes, there are options.)<p>Elementary OS is a fucking joke. Every OS mentioned disparagingly above is a better choice for almost any purpose. But those are still horrible.<p>Apple&#x27;s OS advantage is what lets them say &quot;Fuck you peons, here&#x27;s some 3 year old technology and a bag of dongles, that&#x27;ll be $4000.&quot;<p>But we&#x27;re mostly all gonna buy the new shitty MacBook Hipster, or gut it out with our old ones, until a better fucking <i>OS</i> happens. And that won&#x27;t be soon — it&#x27;s not even remotely on the horizon.