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Windows is faster, better and more usable on my 16" MBP than macOS Big Sur...
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this reason is is why I am typing on a Dell XPS instead of a MacBook from 2019 and transforming into windows10 from OSX, which i thought windows was made for stiff collar computer users who wore short sleeve dress shirts at work.
but there is no hope for the 2 parties ever to unite as one because "something" will not make trillions of dollars that month.
Apple charging $200 for an additional 8Gb of soldered RAM = unacceptable
It's not bad enough obviously, otherwise people would stop paying the insane prices and switch sides.
It's not to say that I'm not getting 150fps or more on my PC with a 3080 in it... but my M1MBP cost less and is portable. No longer do I have to lug my desktop around if I wanted to play somewhere other than home.
Sometimes you need that power when raiding and the like but since WoTLK ended (the best of WoW) I don't raid anymore. I can get 45-60 fps on high settings with minor tweaks on a 3440x1440 60hz monitor so for me that is just fine.
And at no time does the Mac Mini even get warm. It will do for me
Exactly. It's not like you can really tell the difference between 60fps and 120fps... it's all headroom.Sometimes you need that power when raiding and the like but since WoTLK ended (the best of WoW) I don't raid anymore. I can get 45-60 fps on high settings with minor tweaks on a 3440x1440 60hz monitor so for me that is just fine.
And at no time does the Mac Mini even get warm. It will do for me
Generally speaking I'm still staying above 60fps (on the PC) when there some punk-butt alliance raid trying to lag out the shard, lol. Kinda makes me wanna give it a go on the MBP now.
That's exactly the point I keep trying to make here. REAL WORLD results are more important than synthetic benchmarks and silly specs. In real world usage for my use, the intel chips blow the doors off M1 in video editing speeds. It's not to say that M1 is slow. It just can't do multi core / tread well. But, the intel is close to it's speed in single core but not quite as fast. Same with phones. The difference in speeds of phones now are only noticed if two phones are right next to each other doing the exact same thing. Then it's milliseconds in the difference. Everything is so fast now it does not really matter anymore. The only place it matters is video editing. Where one computer takes hours the other takes 10 mins or less.
Mac Mini owner - October 2020 Intel 16/512 - run Windows 80% time. Very pleased.
Nice .. I didn't know the last one. The others I thought was common knowledge if you are a mac user
So many multi button commands in MacOS is another reason I will never go to it. Cut and paste, select file, right click mouse, cut, goto destination right click mouse, select paste so much faster. Never touching the keyboard to do any of it.
If you cannot use a very simple, damn intuitive and easy operating system like macOS, then the problem is always between the Mac screen and the chair. The problem is you, not the Mac.
Crapindows 10 has bloatware, this is a fact, 100% true, I've seen it with my own eyes, it has bloatware, telemetry and data collection stuff buried and hidden inside. It has automatic updates by default and no matter what you do to turn them off, they always come back to bite you when're doing an important task or in the middle of an online game competition. There are no simple buttons to turn them all off. The user has to go through a hell to disable them all.
Since Micro$oft does not provide clear information on how to do it, I had to read an entire thread on MSFN forums from other users on how to disable each one of them, a very lenghtly reading that I would recommend for everyone that do not want to be tracked by Micro$oft and reduce the size of this bloatware in your hard disk, as well as regain control on how and when you want to update your system. I have even disabled and killed the useless Cortana, OneDrive and all other "features" following other third party guides.
"If you can't work on all platforms then you're not a real developer" is a blatant insult, and arrogant assumption about someone you do not know absolutely nothing about. You have no rights to say if I am or not a real developer because you know absolutely nothing about me. This insult was just your excuse to defend the OS of your choice.
The platform does not define a "real" developer and neither defines how good he is. You're not better than me just because you use Crapindows 10 and I use a Mac with macOS Big Sur, and vice versa.
A real developer gets the job done on the platform of his choice, regardless of what platform it is, and what really matters is how fast he can deliver the job done, this is what the boss and customers want, the job done ASAP. It's not how, it's what he delivers that defines a real developer.
And I am faster, more efficient on macOS Big Sur than on Crapindows 10, because the workflow is much more fluid and faster for me there. At the end of the day, my boss does not care about which OS and what apps I used to get the job done for him or our customers. And I do my job with 100% absolute perfection and dedication, all my customers are well satisfied and they do not care about what platform I use for work, as long as I give them what they want. And I do it my way. Period.
macOS Big Sur works for me and Apple does care about their users privacy. Crapindows 10 does not work for me and I do not want to be blatantly & inadvertently tracked by the current modern day evil Micro$oft, Facebook and Google. End period.
Don't bother replying, as I will not answer any more about this because I've already made my point very clear to you, and I have nothing more to say on this subject. The problem is you, not the Mac. Bye.
Everyone has their own preferences, I have no argument vs that.
But using mouse isn't faster than using a keyboard. I use kb shortcuts for ALL operating systems, macOS, w10, linux. More intuitive? Nope, at least not for a larger user base. But faster? Yes, way, way faster.
Recently my MacBook Air M1 got kernel panic out of the blue.
My coworker has WiFi issues after updating on 10.15.7 etc.
Every computer has issues. Even Macs. Windows isn't bad though.
My coworker has WiFi issues after updating on 10.15.7 etc.
Every computer has issues. Even Macs. Windows isn't bad though.
Not an opinion. A fact.
I can type out multiple shortcuts until you get mouse in position and click on it.
Or your opinion is that you can use right mouse button, scroll down to copy, then move mouse button to different window and click right mose button + paste faster than I can click ctrl/cmd+c followed by ctrl/cmd+v?
Or you can scroll thru menus and click on something you're looking for, while I can use simple kb shortcut? Simple example would be turning off your windows machine. I can use winkey+x+u+u for shutting down. You have to point with your mouse and click on power off, than confirm it.
Once again, wanna bet?
I am the same. I spend most of my time on the command line, it is actually inconvenient when I am using the keyboard so much to switch to a mouse when I can just use keyboard shortcuts which end up being quicker.
Often you can get there far quicker than clicking an icon to get options to then select the option to open another window to select what you want. When a set of fast keystrokes gets you what you want immediately.
Good coders are the same. If you watch them work they move so fast because they don't use a mouse, all keystrokes.
Nope, everyone thinks this, if one is purchased at a office max, walmart, best buys(?) and other chain store.
Microcenter- Dell and other PC manufactures do not include any bloatware in their windows10 systems.
That's one of the reasons I find it hard to move away from Linux. Auto tiling is awesome. I barely touch my mouse at all. Even in browser I tend to use shortcut keys for regular browsing (Saka keys with Firefox for example).
Anyway, ctrl+tab for app switching in Windows is like 100x faster than moving mouse to taskbar and clicking on icon. Some people love mouse, some love keyboard more. That's ok. But only Steve here will claim that mouse clicking is faster than keyboard shortcuts
the trackpad or touchpad on a laptop has many features in both OSX and windows, is this the same with Linux?That's one of the reasons I find it hard to move away from Linux. Auto tiling is awesome. I barely touch my mouse at all. Even in browser I tend to use shortcut keys for regular browsing (Saka keys with Firefox for example).
Anyway, ctrl+tab for app switching in Windows is like 100x faster than moving mouse to taskbar and clicking on icon. Some people love mouse, some love keyboard more. That's ok. But only Steve here will claim that mouse clicking is faster than keyboard shortcuts
and Steve really cant claim anything here, for a while.
Sad to tell you the truth, but the installer I used for my virtual machine came directly from Micro$oft website. I am a Mac user, I do not buy these PCs with OS pre-installed. I used to mount my own PCs before I went all in to Apple ecosystem ten years ago. Even the OS installed on computers used by my current employer and co workers are downloaded from Micro$oft website by our support team, and the company is a M$ partner.
Before the pandemic, I could often hear the support team, when they had to come in and setup/reformat the PCs in our office for new co workers, complaing about that (the bloatware and automatic updates). I was the one responsible for the Macs maintenance when I was not designing the new websites/projects for them. No Mac has failed on me during that period and I was able to set them up in a few minutes whenever a new co worker came in and asked for a Mac instead of a PC. All of their Macs were in perfect condition last time I was there. Half of our office computers are Macs. The other half are Dell laptops with linux pre installed on them. Only those who are not programmers asked to have it installed instead of linux when they were given these laptops.
My previous employer was giving the same Dell laptops with Linux Mint preinstalled for all employers that were doing remote work. I refused it when I joined them and was offered one, and said that I prefer to use my own MacBook Pro.
Last month I had to reformat an Acer laptop for an uncle. Downloaded the OS from M$ website, and guess what, Candy Crush Saga was there among the other bloatware installed on it.
Trackpad on macOS is by far the best trackpad, followed by Windows, and then followed way behind by Linux.
Linux has the worst trackpad experience of them all. If you want something, you have to make the gestures yourself. Gnome40 fixes some of that, ElementaryOS 6.0 beta is good as well, but to be honest, Linux in this department is nowhere near Windows10, not to mention macOS.
And I just see now that Steve can't comment anymore. Shame.
Tackpad exprience in KDE is way better than Gnome. Well, I admit to be kinda biased, because I much prefer KDE over Gnome in general.
E.g. Scroll reverse in KDE is just the tick of a box.
So its not necessarily a „Linux“ thing, mouse/trackpad handling much depends on the desktop environment