Once I graduated the end-of-semester ritual faded into the past and I stopped trying. I never managed to get a non-VM linux install fully functioning. I'd find threads in forums filled with dozens of people with the same issue, trying increasingly desperate measures to work around them, almost never with any sort of success or even conclusion. Or the UI was dirt slow because the graphics drivers were crap. Or the screen was locked at full or zero brightness. Some times linux came up but wifi, sound, or sleep were broken. Some times it would boot but I could only use external keyboard and mice. Some times the installed OS would freeze on boot. Some times it would corrupt the partition map and never boot into the new install.
Sometimes the installer would run but repeatedly lock up at a certain step. Sometimes the installer wouldn't work and I'd spend that time cycling through different disk tools / CDR drives / images. Every single time, without fail, within those first couple days I hit some sort of show-stopping bug.
Twice a year (after finals each semester) I would make a ritual of spending a day or two trying to install and use linux because I believed in what they were trying to do (also, package manager!). I use the past tense because MS has caught up on most of these fronts, except for perhaps stable drivers and license hassles, where they are hobbled by their business model rather than technical shortcoming. Also realize that you necessarily didn't miss what you never knew you could have. Fair enough, but realize that wasn't the case for everyone. Since you have made the investment it's now a sunk cost and no longer factors into your OS decision. If you have used Windows all your life, you have taught yourself to live with a lot of BS. I now have both feet in the Windows ecosystem but the transition was rough. Better tested drivers installed by default, no OS license hassles, no issues created by malfunctioning (or maliciously functioning) antivirus, top download sites weren't infested with malware (no hunt for the real DL link), journaled FS in the consumer tier for instant fsck since 2002 (vs 2012), no-additional-cost professional-grade IDE since 2003 (vs 2015), one-click backup since 2007, decent integrated movie editing, some truly awesome platform-specific-at-first apps (subethaedit, quicksilver, textmate, coda), solid one-button-away desktop search years before it landed and stabilized in Windows, window navigation with expose (they've arguably been leapfrogged since then with window snapping), unix command line with a decent terminal emulator, emacs movement supported in every text field by default, built-in menu bar search, the list goes on. > anyone who used the whole integrated Apple software suite and never looked elsewhere has been missing out on some seriously nice features this whole timeĭitto for anyone not using the Apple ecosystem. But IMHO anyone who used the whole integrated Apple software suite and never looked elsewhere has been missing out on some seriously nice features this whole time. Perhaps I was just less brainwashed than most Apple fans, and the end of the brainwashing may itself be news with big consequences for product adoption. This is not a new habit I've operated like this since getting a Mac in 2009 after a 10-year hiatus from Apple products. On my iPhone, getting Google Maps and Yelp is a top priority, lest I end up navigating off a mountain. I use Hangouts over iMessage, Google Calendar over the built-in calendar, and Google Docs over the office suite.
When I get a new computer, the first things I do are usually download Chrome, MacVim, Google Photos, and VLC. XCode and occasionally FaceTime & iMovie are the only bundled applications that I ever use on my Mac. But you can't really expect a consumer electronics company to have the best application for a given niche once the niche has been identified and attracted companies that really want to make it their bread-and-butter. It was there because you need apps to bootstrap a platform and attract enough users to attract developers. It's kinda weird to read commentators talking as if this was the end of a golden age of Apple.įrom my perspective, their application software has always sucked.
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