[kwlug-disc] Jason's new book

[Chamunks]

It would be really nice to have a nice long term consistent linux
experience for the desktop environment.  I was running a Lenovo something
something for a travel laptop for a trip I took last year and regretted not
taking my Mac the trackpad was bad, the load times were awful even with an
SSD everything in the UX/UI felt jittery and slow I just wish there was one
company dedicated to producing liquid smooth consistent user experiences in
the Linux universe sure I can have a desktop environment a million
different ways but at the end of the day if I spend more time configuring
things than doing what I want to do its just a mess.  I find because of the
huge plethora of options in linux I spend more time constantly optimizing
how my UX is then finding ways to configuration manage so that my
workstation is a stateless entity that it just seems unattainable for the
average user.  If we could take the linux desktop experience of like 10
years from now and bring it back to today then I think that I'll be happy.
I love linux very much but I still find it unsuitable for a working
environment outside of servers and dev which makes me a little angry with
myself for feeling this way but until something gets better I'll keep my
eyes open and encourage the FOSS projects to go in the direction I think
will make the ecosystem better.

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 3:07 PM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> I've been using a Macintosh since 1984. My current Mac is a 2010 MacBook
> Air. At the time I bought it, it was the best laptop on the market. The
> build quality was much better than any PC laptop that I could find in
> retail stores, and it was also much lighter. I'm really pleased with how
> long it has lasted. I still use it daily as my only laptop.
>
> Unfortunately, Apple doesn't currently sell any hardware that I would
> consider buying, and I doubt they will sell hardware I want ever again. The
> current MacBooks have a bad keyboard with unacceptably low key travel, and
> they are unreliable, with an outrageous repair cost. The ribbon cable that
> runs power to the backlight is thinner and more prone to breaking than in
> laptop models from the past, with a really high repair cost. The boot rom
> is designed to make it impossible to boot Linux. Good trackpad, though, and
> nice display. The fastest Mac desktop you can currently buy is a
> reconditioned Mac Pro "cheese grater" edition, built in 2006 (from a third
> party) with upgraded CPU, RAM, GPU and SSD. Nothing Apple currently sells
> can compete, and new Mac desktops are mostly not upgradeable. And I have
> never considered buying an iOS device, due to the walled garden, and the
> impossibility of running my own software on it, and also because of the
> surveillance and spyware.
>
> So I view Mac as a dying ecosystem. At some point, my MacBook will die,
> and I will need to buy a Linux laptop to replace it. The Dell XPS 13 looks
> like a nice replacement.
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, at 9:01 AM, Chamunks wrote:
>
> The big reason I like apple is I just throw an ever increasing fist full
> of cash at them every 4-8 years and I get a toaster with a lever I pull and
> when I pull that lever I get my toast.  If I can get a PC that behaves
> exactly as I expect with no superfluous bullshit like Windows and other
> crapware along with a colossal ecosystem full of spare parts online than
> I'll switch.  But until PC becomes ubiquitous with at least some of the
> aforementioned game breakers then I'm sticking where I am for my
> workstations.
>
> If nothing else I would consider switching my laptop for a Chromebook if I
> could get a Chromebook without the Google in it.
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 5:20 PM Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
> This is priceless! Quote:
>
> """
>
> Keeping older Apple products prevents you from living your life to the
> fullest, as those products do not  contain the latest innovations. {#63:
> Plus, you won‟t look cool in Starbucks.}
>
> """
> On 2019-01-21 3:19 p.m., CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>
> Frequent KWLUG speaker Jason Eckert just finished a short (70 pages) book
> on "Escaping the Cult of Mac"; and it's a hilarious read.  I recommend that
> you check it out.
>
> You can download it from his Github page:
> https://github.com/jasoneckert/CultOfMac
>
>
>
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