[kwlug-disc] Jason's new book

[Stuart Seeley]

Not to start an echo chamber... but yeah, there is something to be said for
a default desktop environment that smoothly and beautifully does exactly
what you expect. I also find the more I customize, the more out of my
element I am when I'm inevitably forced out of the boat. It is getting
better... but we're still pretty far away from passable.

Stuart

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 5:36 PM Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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