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 Strong +1 , I've used Mac for >5 years for work machines now and I found it confusing too.
I'd gotten familiar enough with Linux (pre-systemd) to have a really good intuition about what caused different problems and how to fix them. It feels much harder to build that intuition on my macOS work machines.
@b0rk it feels like macOS updates are scarier or less stable too.
I have one bad update on Linux in my years using it as my work machine or server OS, covering decades of total compute time. I have used macOS for ≈6 years total in my working life and I've seen maybe 2 or 3 updates that break things.
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