On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 05:32:49AM +0000, Thaths wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:37 AM Deepak Misra <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I observe that there is a statistically significant proportion of > > silklisters using Mac machines. Anything to read into ? > > As in do <ahem> smarter people use Macs ? Is it a style statement? Or do > > Macs provide additional features which justify the premium. > > > > I cannot speak for the others, but in my case, I used to use Linux on > servers, desktops and laptops almost exclusively for 10 years. [...] > My main use case for the laptop is to edit and process photos. The tools > available to do this are the best in the world. By comparison, my options > for photo processing is very limited on Linux. > > If I were a gamer, I'd probably go with Windows. If I did more coding day > to day, I'd go with Linux.
After using Linux for a long while [0] I have underwent through various phases of thinking what is smart to do and what is not [1], finally coming to "matching a tool for a job to be done is a mark of smartness". Now, since the thread is already slipping sideways, and there is a number of Mac users probably reading this, it seems like right moment to ask. I am not planning move to MacOS anytime soon, but I am curious what I could expect if I moved. Thus: Q1. I am becoming addicted to abusing Emacs (editor, but also host to Elisp scripting language, which I am using to write more sophisticated versions of some crude makeshift sh scripts from the past), but I have read somewhere that MacOS port was not very good. Any comments on this from Emacs users (if there are any)? Q2. On every screenshot showing MacOS desktop, there is menubar at the top and icondock on the bottom. I do not like this. I have 20+'' of display and I want all of this for myself. Is it possible to get rid of menubar and dock, hopefully permamently, without loss of functionality? No autohiding - I have tried this with Windows, KDE and GNOME and it always ended with my mouse pointer coming too close to the edge, triggering "autoshow", quaking windows and fussing with my eyes. Q2b. Is it possible to run alternative windows manager on MacOS - say, Ratpoison or FVWM (preferably the latter, as I am slowly leaning to the idea of writing my own modules for it)? Q3. I am moderate user of virtual desktops, right now set up in 4x4 pattern, but there are days when I seriously consider going to 5x5 - and right now I think heavy use starts somewhere around 8x8, maybe 9x9. Also, after I (lamps in my brain) warm up I have about 60 windows opened (all right, I have more, but 60 is a nice number while 50 is too "made up"). Works very good, not problem with refreshing, no crashes, excellent responsibility even with heavy computation (say, 3 out of 4 cores busy full time and fourth at 40%) going on in a background - but no swapping, as this would have killed performace, I have enough RAM for buffers and ramdisk (yes really). I wonder how would that be under MacOS - I mean, virtual desktops, ram disk, lots of windows? Any takers? Thanks in advance. [0] https://www.linuxcounter.net/user/43265 [1] It started with something like "every sane and smart person could and should learn Linux and then use it for her own and greater good" - oh I was very young. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] **
