Why I switched from OS X to Linux
I&#x27;m on the other end.<p>Early last year I switched to OSX. In the past I was heavily into various Linux distros: From Ubuntu, to the more lightweight Xubuntu. Fedora. Elementary. I&#x27;ve played with Gnome and Kde.<p>It is my opinion that the people who seem ecstatic about their switch to Linux are still in their honeymoon period. I don&#x27;t feel like any Linux distro out there comes close to the stability and elegance of OSX.<p>I&#x27;ve had so many issues over the years, it&#x27;s hard to even list them:<p>- Ubuntu only used the dedicated gfx card on one of my laptops. Never would it settle into integrated. This caused performance issues, overheating, and I ultimately decided it was impossible to use.<p>- Gnome had so many display, rendering, and performance issues... I still don&#x27;t know how people tolerate it. Even software listed in this blog post: KeePassX copy&#x2F;paste never worked for me. Random software that would just blank out and require a full system restart.<p>- Crashes... so many... crashes. Especially when using multiple monitors.<p>- Some distros (Elementary, for example) seem to have quite a few hardware limitations. Half the computers I tried to install these distros on would run into errors, a lot of bios chasing, too much time spent on forums to find help... Most of the times you just give up.<p>- There just isn&#x27;t enough software. And Wine isn&#x27;t exactly the perfect solution. Not ONE single good MySQL gui for Linux (just an example). Think about that - and no, Workbench isn&#x27;t good! It&#x27;s extremely intensive on resources and bloated.<p>I moved into OSX because I was fed up. I wanted to work and be productive and not constantly look after hardware and software. At the end of the day I wanted access to bash, pleasant to look at, with plenty of software options. I didn&#x27;t want to worry about performance, random crashes, and lack of support for multiple displays. It&#x27;s costly, but the solution for me was OSX.