Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
Meh. I bailed out of the Mac ecosystem last year, as my mid-2012 retina Macbook was finally getting too creaky, and the latest Mac hardware was a regression in many respects, while simultaneously utterly unaffordable. I&#x27;m now dual-booting Ubuntu&#x2F;Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 15&quot;.<p>What this experience has taught me is that computing in 2019 basically sucks. The problems with 2000-era Linux, as described in the article, are very similar to the problems with 2019-era Linux. External monitors are a particular pain point for me. I&#x27;ve got an HDPI laptop and I want to plug into an old non-HDPI era monitor. Doesn&#x27;t work. Spend the next 10 hours poking around forums, trying weird XWindows options, installing Wayland, etc. Still doesn&#x27;t work. Eventually, give up.<p>Windows 10 works marginally better. Both remain vastly inferior to MacOs.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that the grass isn&#x27;t greener on the other side. Macs <i>are</i> regressing, but the grass isn&#x27;t greener on <i>either</i> side. Let&#x27;s stop pretending otherwise.