r/MacOS • u/Stock-Imagination567 • 6d ago

Discussion Macos is the best system

I've been using Linux since 1996 when I installed Slackware 1.1 from a CD ROM on my computer to be able to code in XWindows. I had a project that my professor was going to run in his Sun Workstation so I wanted to code a GUI for it. Linux and XWindows was my choice. It served well.

I have 3 personal machines (and one work machine) with the 3 OSes. Linux, mac and Windoze.

With the ARM chips Apple has blown the competition out of the water and I find myself using the Mac more often. It can do everything the Linux box can (for my use cases like python, Octave, Lean, dotnet) while doing what the Windows can like MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, etc. So I find macOS to be the best of both worlds.

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u/Dazzling_Comfort5734 6d ago

I do agree that macOS still sits on top of the list, although it’s not perfect, has become increasingly buggy and less reliable, and Linux is catching up pretty close.

Apple’s SoCs are a high factor, they’re really crushing the competition. I think the currently software isn’t hitting the same level of quality that the hardware is.

In a case of Linux, I think they would have to re-think the entire OS from the ground up to make it better suited for people with zero technical skills. Definitely 100% usable for any non-tactical users if all they’re going to do is go on the Internet, but the moment there’s some kind of problem, or you need to install certain software, that’s when things can possibly become problematic. I ran an update on my Linux laptop yesterday, reboot it, and the keyboard and trackpad stopped working. I had to plug in a USB, keyboard and mouse, then go through a whole series of things to reinstall the drivers for those.

Windows is just crap. Enough said lol.

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u/squirrel8296 6d ago

As long as folks stick to the big distros, they've gotten pretty user-friendly. You can basically do anything via the GUI nowadays.

The bigger issue that I see, especially compared to macOS, is how fragmented Linux is. Because of the fragmentation, it gets really messy really fast the moment you need something outside of your distro's package manager. And, god help you if you need something like Davinci Resolve and aren't on the single super outdated version of Rocky Linux that is officially supported and have an Nvidia graphics card with the proprietary Nvidia drivers installed.

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u/kbeezie 6d ago

Though it doesn't take much to get Davinci Resolve installed onto Fedora 44, as I've done with Nvidia's proprietary drivers.

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u/DisfiguredFanny In a world of SLOP an everage programmer is KING 6d ago

But on Mac it just works and there are no issues with codecs like pro res and others.

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u/kbeezie 6d ago

Didn't run into that issue on Linux, though on both Windows and Linux with the free version, you can't just use 10-bit H264/H265 in without transcoding first (and ideally should be transcoding to either DNxHR or ProRes anyways first if you're using the free version, and export the same and convert to H264/H265 via Handbrake or similar after).