New office.

They gave me a fucking Mac. It's a fucking nightmare to operate this machine efficiently and effectively.

Piece of shit. I had given a preference of Windows and yet they shoved this PoS in my face.

What a cognitive load to deal with on constant basis.

Your working conditions are inhumane.

It's bright, it's colorful, it's a design fuckup.

It goes to the trash.

You get used to it. Eventually.
Then stockholm sets in.

So is your next post going to be: They are wanting me to develop for fucking iOS?

bwahahahaha I hope your email signature is "sent from my new iMac"

@electrineer send rescue..

@IntrusionCM that's where it belongs.

@catgirldev I get it now. It's all part of the plan.

@magicMirror lmao hilarious.

@Demolishun seems like it. Never thought life would come to this.

@PonySlaystation nooooooo. Don't curse me.

@IntrusionCM it goes to the Mac Pro 🗑️

just start up a VM with your favorite linux distro.

(if you don't have one, get one.)

@zlice the windows never maximise and it's infuriating.

The shortcut keys are shit.

@tosensei wish I could do that.

@dontbeevil thank you, much needed.

If you can afford a Mac, you can afford an assistant to operate it for you.

@platypus why would I buy a Mac?

So technically, you are a mac user now?

@Oktokolo stop hurting him :(

@Oktokolo Soon to be Mac fan boy.

On the upside, now you get around to the main use case of a Mac: hanging out at Starbucks, drinking latte macchiato, and pretending to be a cool and braindead hipster.

Hey i just tossed out my old core i5 pc for a new mac air m1 and this has been the best experience for me i mean it's got everything and it's a unix based system and i got zsh terminal and everything tf if you complaining about you can basically do anything you want here.

@Fast-Nop Can't lie even if i like this mac i do feel like that sometimes

@amenabe The main things that keep me from Apple are:

1) Their rip-off prices with proprietary parts such as RAM and flash. The latter is particularly ridiculous, given that their flash doesn't even require an SSD controller because that's already in the M1 SoC anyway.

2) Their anti-repair stance where they go out of their way to hinder repairs, which is not only hostile to their customers, but also to the environment. Recycled cardboard package for greenwashing is nothing compared to the generated e-waste.

3) While their kernel is OSS, the rest isn't. The M1 specifically will never run Linux well because Apple will not support the graphics driver development in any way so that it will always stay a mediocre, reverse engineered hack.

Mac's are like that hot girl (or whatever you prefer) that you see off in the distance and think "oh, that's gotta be awesome, she's AMAZINGLY beautiful!" Then you work up the nerve to go up to her - or the host of a party forces you together, to keep with OP's experience - and you chat for a while. She seems cool at first, and my god, SO gorgeous! So, then you hang out a bit, go on a few dates, and at first it seems great, though there are some minor annoyances here and there. Then one day, you catch them picking her nose. Well, okay, still hot as hell, so you let it go. The next day, she's shit-talking you to a friend. Wow, bitch. But... OMG, BEAUTY QUEEN! So, you stick it out. The next week, she cheats on you, but you still let it go, 'cause HOT! After that, she plants drugs on you and calls the cops just for a laugh. You're FINALLY ready to leave her... but no, she's pregnant! Now you're stuck, so you tell yourself her insane beauty is enough, but deep down, you know.

@IntrusionCM: It is fine, you can't really hurt a mac user.

@Oktokolo savage

@Demolishun: 😇

@Fast-Nop The anti repair shit is what drove me away from Asus and toward Sager. Sager makes it so much easier to work on their laptops than other manufacturers. There is more room to put your stuff in there. It is not all cramped. You don't have to choose between sata drive and the m2 drives. I was able to put in a sata and 2 m2 drives in my current rig.

Be careful, do not disturb the cultists!

@Demolishun

It seems like you would like this amazing nineties invention called "The ATX tower case"

Compared to laptops, you can easily repair or even completely replace a faulty keyboard, mouse or display -- and you don't even void your warranty for mixing brands!

@Demolishun My Tuxedo 4700U laptop could also take a 2.5" HDD/SSD, but only one M.2 SSD because the other M.2 slot for the optional LTE module is internally attached via USB and hence can't take an SSD.

Then again, I already ordered it with a big ass 2TB M.2 SSD in the first place so that I don't need additional storage. Since that's a standard part and user replaceable, the pricing was OK.

Even repasting is easy because you just remove the bottom lid and can access the cooler right away. Plus that I have the service manual which is pretty good.

Repasting was much more of a hassle with an HP550 from 2009 that I refurbished this year where I had to disassemble the whole bottom section. It was so much work that I also replaced the BIOS button cell just in case.

@bittersweet I take it with me. Just don't use desktops at home anymore. I have a server that stays put.

@Oktokolo @IntrusionCM @Demolishun noooooo I am not a Mac user and will never be one. Stop attacking me.

@Fast-Nop upside, eh?

@fzammetti beauty fades.

@ars1 lol ain't afraid of them.

@Floydimus: Yes, you are. Deep in your heart, you know that you always wanted a mac. Don't be shy. It is fine. Don't listen to the macophobics - you wanted that mac and now you have it and can proudly use it.

BTW i use Gentoo.

M1 macs are decent machines for development.

@Oktokolo Mac-o-phobics? So you mean I shouldn't listen to myself?

@sameoldfears that makes even worse for me, as I am not a dev.

@Floydimus: Yes, you have to come clean with yourself. Be proud of thinking different. Don't let liberterian society push you into defense. Accept your feelings. And don't fret - all the creative tools like Photoshop and Illustrator where basically made for the mac. You can just keep using them - no need to change your workflows.

@Floydimus you sound like a deeply closeted mac user

@Oktokolo This is the decision @Floydimus is in the process of making right now:

https://youtube.com/watch/...

@Demolishun lolol

@electrineer -_-

devRant needs a block feature now 😏

Have been through the same hell. I can work efficiently in Windows and Linux. Linux really makes me way more productive. OSX sucks it straight out.
The weird key stuff. Even when connecting a normal keyboard home/end do not work properly. Finder is absolutely worthless, can't even use paths. Window management is non existent.

So you need:
- Rectangle for window management.
- Any alternative to finder.
- Alfred for improving spotlight.
- Karabiner to fix some keyboard weirdness. (but don't try the full Windows one, that is full of conflicts)
- Find the setting in iterm that lets you use option/alt key instead of it composing special characters
- Homebrew to install all the Dev tools

After that it should be workable. But damn was I disappointed in this one hyped OS, especially the window and file management.

Well, the mac doesn’t like you either!

Do the honors

@jeeper well tbh I don't want and don't care whether I am being liked by a Mac. It's awful piece of technology.

I’ve used a Mac ever since I got into software engineering/development. I just always request one now because all my Windows friends in bootcamp always had pathing issues and my Linux friends always had issues with peripherals. So I stick to what I’ve already grudgingly accepted as normal.

Though only having 16gb when I work with Docker on the regular is…. Not great. Though I’m getting used to having zombie containers, I guess. (Still on an intel chip)

@AmyShackles sure, it's great if one has stuck with it since the beginning.

For a person like me, who has been a windows user since forever, I just cannot and rather don't want to switch.

You will get used to it

I only worked with Mac once, and it was my worst, I'm Android develop and some days I had spend my whole day just building the project, more than 8 hours building a maven local and it didn't work in the end of the day

Also @apple “We care about the environment which is why you don’t get a plug with your phone” also @apple “Oh, you want to add more RAM to the laptop you bought a while ago, you’ll need to throw that one away and buy a new one - also you can’t take the disk out because it’s soldered and paired only to that computer - sucks to be you”

Also, WHY don’t Apple ship a version of a laptop with a freakin’ £ key in the place anyone from the UK expect it to be?

Confirmed: I am the only one here that likes macbooks lmao

@AleCx04 no, we are legion!

@jeeper 3.000–6.000 ... fits perfectly.

@rEaL-jAsE Don't want to mess the office laptop

@zemaitis A cog in the system..

@rittmann I feel your pain. I hope you are in a better place now.

@RichSouth It's more about the user base of Apple that I dislike. Half brained morons. The fan club is super toxic.

@AleCx04 How does it feel to live life on extreme difficulty level? :P

@Floydimus not the Trash, more on a reentering rocket striped on the side.

You don't like macs? You should go to jail.

@dmd779779 Macs ARE jail...

@dontbeevil Probably, but it is fun to say and trigger all the other apple fanboys.

Not suitable for you. You should rather find something that will be better for you. All the best!