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I'm annoyed with the idea of getting a Mac (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I know this is going to be unpopular with some, but I am seriously considering a Mac and I am annoyed by the idea of it.

I NEED MacOS or Windows for my work. There is one application that does not work in Linux yet and there are no alternatives. It is a critical work application.

With that being said, you can probably guess that Linux is my preferred OS of choice.

I am currently using a Windows desktop for my work, but I do run into situations where I need a laptop. The laptop I am using now is a Thinkpad from 2021 with Fedora. I actually really love this computer. My only real complain is that the webcam is pretty garbage.

So, I think I need a new computer. My choices are Windows laptops which have decent pricing with good specs, or Apple which is extremely expensive for what you get.

I'm really annoyed with Windows' ads, bloat, and general lack of privacy; specifically Recall. On the other hand, it is hard to justify spending an extra $400 on a Macbook air just to get a 1tb hard drive. My work files alone take up a little more than 200gb.

I guess this is just a rant. I'm not looking for any solutions as what I am really looking is the ability to use Linux for my work which is not an option at the moment.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (8 children)

BTW, I'm not OP, but just interested, about the general feel of the UI and solutions - how much of the 3d\blur\other effects can be turned off? Same with choosing a purely monochrome color scheme. These cause nausea for me every time I even look at MacOS screenshots.

And another question, about window management and solutions to that and the desktop and dock and launcher, - how simplified can that be? In addition to nausea, have anxiety from most things there, and every time touching a Mac wasn't pleasant. Can one have a keyboard-controlled environment without rounded corners, without animations, without scrolled screens with icons to launch something? And how well can one hide the functionality of virtual desktop overview or whatever that is, to just forget it was there?

Suppose my ideal of tranquility would be a DOS prompt, gray on black. How close can one get to that?

Hypothetically.

[–] MadMadBunny 3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

To get a DOS prompt, you either install MS-DOS on a VM, or on a vintage PC.

Or just make the Mac boot directly into the command line as Single User. CMD+S on startup.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I don't mean that. I mean using a PC normally, but with a level of UI appearance adequacy approaching that of a DOS prompt.

[–] MadMadBunny 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can customize the Terminal app.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No, I meant reduce distractions in the UI. Using all the same applications with native look. And reduce epilepsy-inducing elements in that native look.

I meant normal use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You can customize the colors & themes. I go with dark mode with dark tones & there is no multicolor things like you're complaining about

The terminal is pretty vanilla, you can customize it but it looks like any terminal by default

~~You can't turn off blur AFAIK, but it's never been distracting to me.~~ It's probably where you get the idea of multicolor things though -- some apps (and by some I mean apple default apps) have a very slight transparency with a strong blur, so if the windows/background behind said app is colorful, it will be somewhat visible through that app

Edit: You can turn off transparency in accessibility settings

When I say "can't be turned off" I mean "can't be turned off officially", but as all things with macos there will be some paid & OSS solutions to tweak the behavior of the OS to your needs.

I like my mac pretty vanilla yet I do use some of those behavior-tweaking apps such as

  • Copyclip
    • clipboard history, free, can be installed outside the app store if you want
  • MiddleTouch
    • paid, allows the use of the fn key + click to perform a scroll click (some apps are barely useable by me without this behavior)
  • Scroll Reverser
    • allows setting different scroll behaviors between mouse & trackpad (default setting has inverted vertical scroll, OK for touchpads, terrible for mouse -- it has no split settings)
  • noTunes
    • prevent the opening of Apple Music app on ▶️ key press (annoying behavior when pausing & starting music play)

You should also install Brew, the unofficial macos package manager, to install command line utilities and other packages

[–] MadMadBunny 1 points 3 days ago

Maybe just stick with Linux.

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