I’m liking the recent posts about switching to Linux. Some of my home machines run Linux, and I ran it on my main laptop for years (currently on Win10, preparing to return to Linux again).

That’s all fine and dandy but at work I am forced to use Windows, Office, Teams, and all that. Not just because of corpo policies but also because of the apps we need to use.

Even if it weren’t for those applications, or those policies, or if Wine was a serious option, I would still need to work with hundreds of other people in a Windows world, live-sharing Excel and so on.

I’m guessing that most people here just accept it. We use what we want at home, and use what the bossman wants at work. Or we’re lucky to work in a shop that allows Linux. Right?

    • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      8 hours ago

      For us its the lack of proper multi-monitor support in the hardware. We have triple 27inch monitor setups on our desks with thunderbolt docks.

      Plug a windows or Linux laptop into them no problem, single cable solution and 4 distinct displays. Plug a Mac into it and the best you get is two displays with the 3 external displays all showing the same image. Stupid arbitrary Apple limits.

      Plus the Apple hardware is so fragile and difficult to repair. We mostly stick to Dell Latitudes, HP Elitebooks and Lenovo T series because of the better hardware.

      Most people dont need more than 10 hours battery life. If you do, you are probably one of those people who always forget to charge their phones anyway.

    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
      31·
      22 hours ago

      So much.

      • Window Management, especially fullscreen
      • Alt Tabbing Behaviour
      • Default Keyboard Layout
      • The Dock with its forced defaults (Finder leftmost, Trash rightmost etc)
      • No volume control over HDMI
      • Power Management (no manual hibernate, closing lid always sleeps)
      • File System Support
      • The reactions that auto trigger on webcam
      • The Global Menu
      • Unchangable limit to virtual desktops
      • Default apps being hard to change in some cases (mailto: links for example)
      • The weird software installation process with dragging icons to a special folder
      • That I can’t temporarily disable a system management profile
      • The way the BSD tools are slightly different than the GNU ones, with grep slower for certain patterns
      • No Package Manager by default (unless you count the App store with forced accounts)
      • Weird filesystem setup, far from FHS

      I have installed various pieces of third party software to fix some of them, but still, those are things I dislike about macOS.