The Neo cannot scale with macOS behind on the basics(blog.apotenza.com) |
The Neo cannot scale with macOS behind on the basics(blog.apotenza.com) |
Back then a mac worked much better with the docks I could find and monitors that had a dock plugged in. It was close to instant and "just works" on the Mac whereas the Windows computer would take 45 seconds to enumerate the dock every time.
The other day we had a power failure that caused my home server which normally runs headless to go down and stay down. Right next to that server is a Mac with a Studio display which has no ordinary ports like HDMI, DVI, VGA, DisplayPort, whatever. I had to take the server upstairs and plug it into a old cheap monitor I had there and it turned out that somehow the *-extras package didn't get installed by Ubuntu and I had no network card drivers. Not hard to fix, but another illustration of how Apple products often are just a little less useful and valuable than they could be.
I think it led to the AVP product failure because "of course people are going to spend $3000 so they can be the lonely guy watching a movie and popping popcorn all alone". Had Apple customers given them some discipline (like "I could buy three monitors for that price") they might have made the AVP compatible with immersive games or tried to pack them in with seats of Dassault 3DExperience or something better than that.
See Clayton Christensen's idea of "disruptive innovation" which blames the customers of firms for being uninterested in new and appropriate technology. Since his work got famous we've seen an epidemic of companies like Microsoft that, from the viewpoint of customers, look like they are high on drugs, because they're afraid their current customers will keep them stuck in the past.
[1] to be fair I have a lot of computers, including weird SBCs, it's a regular occurrence that I need to plug something into a monitor, any monitor, for a few hours.
It’s unfortunate that it’s so hard to disrupt this space.
For instance, they are arguing that Apple is pushing users toward a Thunderbolt dock - on a computer without Thunderbolt.
In a refresh or two when they up it to the next a-series pro chip and 12GB ram, it’s going to be an unambiguous deal.
no kidding, when that soc is on the top sellign iphone AND top selling macbook.
economies of scale is the 9th wonder of the world
* Earlier mobile phone SoC in a laptop devices from Qualcomm still supported two or more external displays!
I still can’t get thumbnail previews of my Virtual Desktops at the top of my screen. I see the desktops but they’re blank.
And missing that context is tricky when you have four of them (:
- government and corporate bulk contracts ?and this is usually a result of software only working on Windows.) - expensive (thus affecting for most home users and also corporate bulk buyers who can not tell the difference.) - lack of high end game support
That is why it doesn’t have more market share.
You are thinking too much about minor technical issues.
Still can't believe how much better it felt to log in to KDE (admittedly not my favorite) on my Steam Deck when I had to configure something and got to use the file manager. It just let me... do stuff that MacOS wants to hide from me. Cmd-shift-. to show hidden files, seriously? Cmd-shift-G to go to a path?!
I've been using MacOS exclusively for 5 years now and had forgotten how much I like working on linux - I definitely haven't forgotten how much I dislike Windows though...
People can't buy Linux laptops at Media Market, there are no Linux stores with genies,...
Yes yes, I can already hear the naysayers "it's not that easy". It actually is! Just make sure you have the appropriate GLIBC version and a specific version of either clang or GCC that is compatible (hey it's Linux, you can choose!). Then do the usual ./configure --with-openssl=<CUSTOM_SSL_LIB_BECAUSE_THE_STOCK_ONE_IS_TOO_OLD>, make, make install (remember to use sudo on that one because we write some system files).
Honestly, the whole process took me just two hours from start to finish. Easy peasy.
I'd much rather do that than buying hardware that is massively overpr... oh, you're saying they're cheaper than Linux laptops now? Idk man ... I would still not buy any of that, those are definitely for brainwashed cattle.
At this point I’m beginning to suspect that linux users have stockholm syndrome. Or is Tux standing behind you with a gun?
I know, I know, you don’t have any of those problems. You have the Blessed Configuration that has the right tradeoffs for you. But like… most people don’t want to spend waking hours reading Archwiki to figure out why their wifi drops when they move from one room in their house to another…
There are plenty of Linux operating systems that prize stability over feature richness. They work fine if that's your workflow. Most folks' workflows, unfortunately, are not that.
I will never buy an Apple device for private use.
what you need to consider is that only those people who actually do have problems will talk about them. the rest of us stay silent. also, linux users are more vocal, they don't stay silent about problems. that's what gets things fixed
To elaborate on this point: a USB-C dock that includes display connectivity needs to operate at least some of the high-speed lanes of the USB-C connector in DisplayPort Alternate mode. If you split it with two lanes for DisplayPort and two lanes for USB 3.0 signals, then you have halved the potential display bandwidth.
But it's also valid to use all of the high-speed lanes for the DisplayPort signals, limiting the USB bandwidth to the USB 2.0 signals that are carried over separate wires. This is adequate for connecting a keyboard and mouse, but not ideal if you want the dock to provide 1GbE or plan to do large file transfers to external storage devices connected through the dock.
Thunderbolt doesn't always achieve quite the same video bandwidth as raw DP Alt mode, but it allows both DP data and USB data to be multiplexed over all of the high-speed lanes of the USB-C cable, so you can be using more than half the bandwidth for displays and still have enough left over for USB 3.0.
But I don't think the above particularly matters to your use case, because Apple's hardware doesn't support DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport so the Thunderbolt dock is the only way to drive multiple monitors from just one of the Mac's Type-C ports.
Windows just kinda works on this monitor. It was the same on my last setup too...
I have no idea how macOS does it, but the obvious thing to try is to leave the relative positioning undefined until the first time the user tries to move the mouse off one screen, and assume they're aiming for the other screen.
It would probably make sense to constrain this to horizontal movements, so that taking advantage of Fitts' Law to hit the menu bar or the Dock (at the bottom by default) wouldn't produce a false positive signal about display positioning when stacked display setups are less common than side by side.
For me the macOS Display management experience is absolute dreadful. I had the same issues as the author's and I even had to pay actual money for a third party application (BetterDisplay) to fix some of the issues.
The most infurienting one for me is that I can't disable the internal MacBook display when I am connected to an external monitor without closing the lid. Why you may ask? Because I want to keep using the TouchID. However this is impossible in macOS without an external app.
Then go back to my original comment.
Additionally, do you happen to know even in Europe, what is average salary of the southern countries and why so many folks try to move into central and northen Europe?
Naturally buying an iPhone, or anything Apple, with a Dutch salary doesn't need hand holding.
It's a choice between arbitrary changes and constant redesigns every 4-5 years, versus bare-bones distros and DEs.
The parent asks for a third option: well featured, mature, distros that don't change for the sake of it, but still have the features.
I’m arguing this niche barely exists. Folks who want to run modern software tend to want something that “looks” modern.
Looks that way because nobody asked them, and marketing types and designers decide for them...