{"id":32072,"date":"2021-04-06T16:04:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32072"},"modified":"2021-04-06T19:34:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T23:34:58","slug":"switching-back-to-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/06\/switching-back-to-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching Back to Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cfenollosa.com\/blog\/fed-up-with-the-mac-i-spent-six-months-with-a-linux-laptop-the-grass-is-not-greener-on-the-other-side.html\">Carlos Fenollosa<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=26677035\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/cfenollosa.com\/blog\/fed-up-with-the-mac-i-spent-six-months-with-a-linux-laptop-the-grass-is-not-greener-on-the-other-side.html\"><p>Due to very bad decisions by Apple&rsquo;s product marketing teams,\nMac <a href=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2017\/11\/24\/fixing-the-macbook-pro\">hardware<\/a>\nand <a href=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2015\/01\/04\/apple-lost-functional-high-ground\">software<\/a>\nhad been in steady decline since 2016.<\/p><p>Therefore, \nthere has been a trickle of articles on the Geekosphere about people switching from Macs to Linux or Windows.<\/p><p>This is the contrarian view. <em>Don&rsquo;t do it<\/em>. <\/p><p>The TL;DR is right there in the title:\nmigrating to Linux is fine, but don&rsquo;t expect a better experience than the Mac.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>He really liked the Nautilus file manager, though.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/18\/switching-to-windows-and-linux\/\">Switching to Windows and Linux<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Fenollosa (via Hacker News): Due to very bad decisions by Apple&rsquo;s product marketing teams, Mac hardware and software had been in steady decline since 2016.Therefore, there has been a trickle of articles on the Geekosphere about people switching from Macs to Linux or Windows.This is the contrarian view. Don&rsquo;t do it. The TL;DR is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-04-06T20:04:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"b170b9dc-4bea-45a3-a807-721976a85201","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-04-06T23:35:03Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AsXC53EvqRaOoB3IZdqhSAQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1625,126,1143,1585,193,194,448,30,1891,102,1445,686],"class_list":["post-32072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-alfred","tag-applemail","tag-apple-software-quality","tag-bettertouchtool","tag-calendar","tag-fantastical","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-preview","tag-readdle-spark","tag-things"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32073,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32072\/revisions\/32073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}