I'm well aware of that. But trackpads in general are worse in Linux than on Windows for example.
I find KDE to be a great DE, and really fun to use. But still I'm stuck with PopOS. Simply love the experience and the simplicity
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I'm well aware of that. But trackpads in general are worse in Linux than on Windows for example.
I find KDE to be a great DE, and really fun to use. But still I'm stuck with PopOS. Simply love the experience and the simplicity
Keyboard shortcuts are much faster than using the mouse .. in any case, once you've learnt it, it is second nature. All of @maflynn complaints about Finder has an easy solution. I personally find Finder to be decent and quite a lot better/easier to navigate than Windows File explorer especially with tagging, searching and the tabbed interface. Maybe it is just because of familiarity with it.
While I do find Finder to be way better than Windows Explorer, I find it to be the best when I install something like totalFinder or xtraFinder. Dual panel + Visor are really awesome features to have. It's a shame that I can't find anything like that by default, no matter what OS I use
I don't doubt that, and the Finder short comings are not a show stopper, I was on a mac for decades. My personal preference is windows given my needs for certain apps.
As you said, you personally found it easier, for me, i personally found the file explorer easier
One size doesn't fit all.
I just reinstalled Windows on MSI and Candy Crush Saga was not on it?
https://mspoweruser.com/rejoice-windows-users-candy-crush-is-finally-gone/ I didn't read all you wrote, but you're obviously lying. They already removed these things back in 2019.
I would agree, usually. Got landed with a new office laptop a few weeks back and I was like arghh, it's an HP and I never have much success with Windows laptops. I am MBP all the way.
Having said that, I have been surprised yet again by non-apple hardware. It's an Elitebook x360 1030 G4. i7, 16GB Ram, 512GB NVMe.
Thin, light, great keyboard, very nice screen, B&O Sound, touchscreen and so on. Stays fairly cool, the battery is about 7 hours which is ok and I have been pleasantly surprised by it. Can't give a good test as it's locked down but really liking it.
Another situation that has me questioning a Mac. Had a friend over a few weeks ago and he had a Dell XPS 15 with him, the current model (nobody comes into my house without some form of tech). It's a lovely little machine, again a very good keyboard but also the trackpad was on point. He got it with a 4k screen which I thought was pointless but it looked incredibly nice all the same. And very repairable and upgradeable, even has a 2nd NVMe slot.
I find windows touchpad drivers AWESOME as well. I am loving windows 10. All my software is on W10 now and I won't be changing. It 'just works'. And is fresh and modern. MacOS has kept the same overall design since my 2007 macbook and it's just stale and boring. The same nit picky annoyances remain as well.
To be fair I could say that Windows does not appear that different. I recall they tried to change (windows 8?) and it was a hot mess, think it was trying to be mobile-first or something.
Anyway, one thing I have found over the years and I am sure it applies to an OS. Don't change things unless you really must or can do it without moving elements people are used to.
I remember Microsoft tried to change the menus on Word/Excel and all hell broke loose so they changed it back, or added an option to switch.
How close did you find the precision trackpad drivers on Windows compared to macOS (especially on the xps 15 you got to try). I've never had the pleasure of trying them myself, and it's p much the last reason I haven't jumped ship for my laptop yet.
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Window's angular design is far sharper imo. Straight lines and simple geometry always looks cleaner on a display than rounding everything off. Scaling is so much better as well lol - can't believe Apple's approach to display scaling in 2021 is still non-integer fuzzy downsampling for any HiDPI resolution other than 2x
users since 1990 and hated windows until 2019
windows 10 offers more visuals options on the laptop, plays music much better (thanks foobar!)
and is more computer user interchangeable were one can add or remove more programs than OSX
the bluetooth experience is much stronger and the file system is much easier-to my surprise.
the Dell XPS seems more stronger like the power chord and construction is more stable.
then again these are just computers and personal preferences on what the user is comfortable with,
and for the last 5 hours, this 2010 macbook air is been in full use and not missing a beat and still can multi task graphics, organizing and chatting here.
so
a win-win(dows) here!
windows 10 offers more visuals options on the laptop, plays music much better (thanks foobar!)
and is more computer user interchangeable were one can add or remove more programs than OSX
the bluetooth experience is much stronger and the file system is much easier-to my surprise.
the Dell XPS seems more stronger like the power chord and construction is more stable.
then again these are just computers and personal preferences on what the user is comfortable with,
and for the last 5 hours, this 2010 macbook air is been in full use and not missing a beat and still can multi task graphics, organizing and chatting here.
so
a win-win(dows) here!
Windows 10 looks good sometimes (like the Mail app), but like crap in way too many places. Killing Windows 8 and trying to build a system for desktop and tablets instead shows. I think Windows 10 feels like an early access version of something that could be good, but Microsoft fails to finish it. It always feels like they stop developing things half way through, and I hate it.
They talk about a new design for years now, Fluent FTW. Where is it though, every MS app feels different, there is no consistency.
Can't wait to get back to MacOS for work if I'm honest, even something like Gnome is a much better experience.
They talk about a new design for years now, Fluent FTW. Where is it though, every MS app feels different, there is no consistency.
Can't wait to get back to MacOS for work if I'm honest, even something like Gnome is a much better experience.
I have precision drivers on my non xps dell and they work great. I love the interaction with the touchpad.
Recently I started a Raspberry Pi NAS hub network and streamed the movie via Plex, with Pi acting as a Plex Media server with a 1TB drive attached to it.
Well this is disappointing. Windows is giving me issues playing this video. As shown below when playing it on Windows green pixels appear and ruin the experience.
This made me go back to macOS and see if everything was working and to my surprise it played perfectly on macOS with none of the green tearing. Wow!
This made me realise that the video file was not the problem but rather windows. I researched how to fix this but nope could not. This file is a 1080p.Blu-Ray.10-Bit.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.x265-iAHD.mkv 5.1 TrueHD file.
I also played this on my Apple TV via the plex network stream and it worked there with no green tearing.
Looks like I will be using macOS for the foreseeable future.
On Windows: green video issues
On macOS: No green video issues
Well this is disappointing. Windows is giving me issues playing this video. As shown below when playing it on Windows green pixels appear and ruin the experience.
This made me go back to macOS and see if everything was working and to my surprise it played perfectly on macOS with none of the green tearing. Wow!
This made me realise that the video file was not the problem but rather windows. I researched how to fix this but nope could not. This file is a 1080p.Blu-Ray.10-Bit.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.x265-iAHD.mkv 5.1 TrueHD file.
I also played this on my Apple TV via the plex network stream and it worked there with no green tearing.
Looks like I will be using macOS for the foreseeable future.
On Windows: green video issues
On macOS: No green video issues
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Did you try a different MKV codec on Windows? As the file itself is apparently OK, this is looking like an issue with the codec your playback app is using.
I have used the same playback app on both Windows and macOS which is Plex desktop app.
Windows does not play it well and macOS does and so do other TV OS work too.
yep. All other video players work fine. It may be the Plex app thats broken for Windows. I did reinstall Plex and same issue.
I fell out of love with w10 for years, but Microsoft is seriously working to improve it, and am finding myself once again enamored with it. The things I could do without are the telemetry, cortana, etc, but I guess that’s the price to pay.
Could be something with windows and mac hardware too. I had a mac and was trying to run proprietary software from my old job on it and it would not run at all. Always getting errors etc. load it on my acer notebook and worked great. Load it on my HP notebook and worked great. There was something in the way apple ran windows caused issues. Might be what you are getting there as well.
I prefer Plex because of its usability, syncing and appearance. The beautiful rich metadata is wonderful. But yeah I tried Kodi its also great but I don't like how it looks seems its still stuck in 2010s looks wise.
They need to make sure the design is consistent, which should be happening soon. Other than that even prior to the Sun Valley refresh I think the general Metro theme (or whatever it is now, Fluent) is just good. Looks clean.