started using a Mac as my personal machine recently after exclusively using linux for 20 years and one of the most surprising things has been that the options for creative software (making vector graphics, fonts, etc) on Mac really are much better in many cases
feels like one of those things that everyone knows but I never really internalized
(do not lecture me about the options available on Linux, I promise I know)
also i should say that using a mac has been hard for me, after using linux for 20 years there are a lot of things from Linux that I really miss (like package management, strace & friends, native container support).
I really understood how my linux system worked and I miss that.
it makes a lot of other things harder and I still haven’t found solutions i’m happy with for many of them. The tradeoff is worth it for now though
(again, not looking for advice.)
@b0rk i recently got a mac too, mostly to cross compile and test, idk if you’ve got an m-series, but i’ve been super happy dual booting asahi and jumping between depending on my current tasks
(sorry i know this is advice-y)
@mandarvaze @b0rk i’m not the best one to answer— i’m doing some fairly unoptimized stuff.
i’m running server minimal with my sway config just dropped on top.
they’ve got a full desktop flavor that’d probably be better to baseline. i’m constantly running expensive tabs and i need to look into sleeping the screen. these are all self inflicted wounds and still i’m not upset by the battery life— i just know i’m personally not doing asahi justice with my putzery.
Julia Evans
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Mandar Vaze (desipenguin)