Then stop posting in this thread. The OP simply wanted advice on moving between Linux and OSX.
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For me day job is windows (unavoidable as I customize Microsoft products).
Home is now fully mac. Eek jrs have android phones (as they are cheap), Mrs Eek and myself iphones and ipads... The important thing here is that it just works and everything is integrated...
Servers are all linux based. The corporate web servers are ubuntu, the home (backup / media) server will revert back to that over the weekend...merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by cojak View PostThen stop posting in this thread. The OP simply wanted advice on moving between Linux and OSX.
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Linux desktop at home, Linux desktop at work. I ditched Win 8.1 on my laptop for Linux so now totally Windows free.
At work I use a command line interface exclusively since that's how I manage the Unix and Linux servers I look after, no GUI required or wanted. The wee girl who looks after the Windows servers seems to have many more issues than I do but that could be down to many things.
Horses for courses and all that but to describe any non Windows OS as tulipe is more than being blinkered.
Typing a name into a CLI prompt to run a program? Windows doesn't do that?Comment
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Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
Typing a name into a CLI prompt to run a program? Windows doesn't do that?
There is a section of computer illiterate users where a CLI is and would be useful. As long as they can find the terminal you can tell them what to type."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by portseven View PostIt's all about the ecosystem, where are your contacts? bookmarks? data storage? Is it somewhere thats cross platform
Moving my workflow automation to another platform could be done but I'd probably have to write large chunks of it myself. Maybe I'll give it a whirl, but at the moment it "just works" so I'm happy with it.
Originally posted by portseven View PostConsidering a move back to Apple myself, as I can't be bothered with all the x-platform hoops I need to jump through.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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The new (and old too) Dell XPS13 has good Ubuntu support but it's still not as polished as OS X, where Apple has full control over the whole ecosystem.
Because it is my clients money at stake, I use OS X as that has proven most reliable so far.
If I was working on a hobby project, or a sudden downtime because of crappy wifi drivers was not a huge issue, I'd go Linux any time.Comment
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Originally posted by Boo View Post[*]The year is 2015 ffs, who on earth wants to be stuck in the command line ?
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Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View PostWow.
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Originally posted by Boo View PostHi SO, don't really understand what you mean by that, care to be a bit more explicit ?
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