Thoughts on leaving macOS for Linux? (split thread)

dimitarvp
Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:13:03 +0000
Dev Env / Tools / AI

What is your dev machine?

But the honeymoon period didn’t last long - after about 10 months, after each consecutive macOS release it got slower and slower and nosier and more annoying. Apple really did a huge dirty on Intel Mac owners when they released their own silicon.

Yeah, feels the same here. And I made a much bigger investment, the iMac Pro I got was $8000 at the time I bought it (2019).

As a programmer I get it, you want to move on to the good stuff and stop fighting legacy problems and whatnot but as a user I can’t excuse Apple. People can’t just buy a new machine every year, most can’t anyway. And even if they can, it’s a huge e-waste problem. Whatever happened to sustainability?.. It’s only touted when it profits the corps, that’s what happened – and that’s how it always was.

What is your dev machine?

The thing I really dislike about it, tho it probably won’t bother others, is that there is a lag in the animation when you go to Mission Control via a hot corner.

If it was only that. Opening system settings takes two full seconds. Makes me angry every time. In 2025 this is simply shameful.

What is your dev machine?

I installed macOS on an external drive (which is actually faster than the built in 256GB drive)

This… is just sad. Apple we knew practically no longer exists and is the same in name only.

And it only confirms my gut feeling that’s been building up for 2 years now. Time to spec a good (if not absurdly overpowered) Linux workstation, go all-in, learn all the kinks – subreddits like this one can inspire and help people, I reckon – and just forget about Apple. They are ruled by a logistics expert and an accountant.

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