> certainly a pain to just keep it updated.
> Linux and it's a lot of pain to setup.
If you're not using Linux, how are you justifying these claims?
> certainly a pain to just keep it updated.
Excluding the boot time for both, MacOS takes between 15 and 45min to update. Linux is a few seconds. I suspect that the only OS that has a more ridiculous update process than MacOS is Gentoo.
This is a thread on Hacker News, not an academic article. You aren’t owed a massive amount of “justification” for these “claims”.
I was using Mac for development due to company policy (compliance). It is by far the worst development experience I have ever had. Brew is terrible. Updates are agonizing. The user interface is awful. Containers are a shitshow.
Sleep is one of those things that have always just worked for me, at least on Linux; in Windows, I've had to deal with random wakeups after some kind of Windows update. That said, with less than 30 seconds from off to IDE I don't tend to use sleep all that often.
Apple's completely vertical stack means that their machines never have issues sleeping. The huge variety of machines that Linux (and Windows) is expected to run on can cause problems entering S-states reliably. This issue is pretty uncommon (excluding the Windows modern sleep disaster), but that doesn't prevent comments like the GP throwaway.
This is a real issue with Linux. If you want the latest hardware, expect basic features like suspend resume not to work.
There's a litany of bugs in Apple's software. This often gets hidden because developers use workarounds of various sorts, but if you know, you know. It's honestly embarrassing how buggy Apple software is given the vertical integration you describe.
The worst part is that almost all of it is closed source so it's harder to debug, and the bits that are open source (and have bugs in plain sight) you can't just submit a patch to. You have to file an rdar and hope it gets prioritized, which for one of the bugs I'm aware of hasn't been in many years. And so the workarounds keep getting written.
That being said, it happened on my m1 MacBook a few weeks ago - so seems like Apple is no better ;)
Assuming this is a real question and not just an excellent ruse; the answer, in terms of simplest setup would be
1) Install a vanilla default, such as Ubuntu 2) If that fails, buy a vanilla default laptop
To be fair a reason why this is easier on MacOS is they have like 3 laptop options rather than 3000. If your problem still persists, then there is a step 3
3) Become an expert in cli foo
After that fix, you're welcome to either pretend the cli foo was incredibly easy all along, or weep and dream of a gui with two glowing buttons [Cancel] [OK], providing all the configurability you might ever need
