MacBook/OSX

Have used all kinds of OSes and computers. Nothing sucked the productivity out of me as much a company provided MacBook. Some issues were related to the company setup (vpn issues after sleep, jamf botched app installs). But most of the day to day work was just due to crappy key handling. Lots of shortcuts that work everywhere don't (think all the alt combos in terminal). Common things require combos and using the actual keys (like home and end) on an external keyboard have undefined behaviour. Out of the box it does not even have decent window management, this means that a third party tool has to provide the shortcuts and they clash with a few programs.

Thank god I can use Linux now to develop for Linux.

Yeah, the terminal shortcuts are killing me too

Linux workstation FTW for web dev. Work on Ubuntu 20.04, deploy to Ubuntu 20.04. 😎

I have a company MacBook also, it's more of a backup machine I never use, except maybe for testing sites on Mac safari/chrome.

Moving from regular Linux+Windows to MacOS has been a real pain in the ass.

- The texts looks horrible and strain the eye in the external monitor.
- The shortcuts! Urgh!
- The scrolling direction thingy bothers me every day
- using multiple users is horrible if you wanna do some real dev work from the nom-admin users
-RIP external keyboard (although in all fairness, the keyboard was designed specific to windows, but I love it amd can't get a similar one for MacOS at less that 9 times the price)
- Oh the heat in the summer. Can put it on the lap, ever. Not a "laptop".

But what the hell, there are many things where it works better, and it plays nice so beautifully with my other devices, and gets the job done. Plus I like the build a lot.

@nanobot yeah the build quality is really good.
I have a few mech keyboards. They are really expressive so no not going to replace them for a Mac (very specific in my requirements don't think they exist in Mac layout). The OS should be able to work with that, it is bloody standard US QWERTY.

Don't have any Apple devices so no clue in how good the integration is.

I do like that it's a UNIX OS.

@hjk101 I like the unix OS thing too. But I miss pressing Sup+Alt+T to bring up a terminal right away on Ubuntu.

Probably need to set something up, as I don't think this can be done with a shortcut.

@nanobot In gnome I can set up anything with keyboard settings that fine with it.
On OSX I think it can be done with Alfred. Other launchers and tools like karabiner are there to set it up but not out of the box as far as I know