My friend recently sold his Mac as he’s very accustomed to tinkering and MacOS either didn’t listen or broke. The ouf of the box experience is real but once you are ouf of this box (aka you need more customisation and configuration) it’s not enough. But of course very Linux approach to MacOS.
Brew is the only thing that saves it somehow however that’s only package manager with formulas.
MacOS is perfect for people that just want to install the software and use it (still out of the box).
But for even system configuration MacOS falls behind in many ways - I mean even in the settings. I use Ubuntu at my work and more people with Mac have DNS / Wireguard (VPN) problems than me.
My friend recently sold his Mac as he’s very accustomed to tinkering and MacOS either didn’t listen or broke. The ouf of the box experience is real but once you are ouf of this box (aka you need more customisation and configuration) it’s not enough. But of course very Linux approach to MacOS.
Same experience here… Luckily we have brew ^^ Gives some freedom to customize !
But things like .plst… What a hellish dumb experience ! Nowadays I use my Mac as testing ground before they go into my main server…
But what a surprise when I found out that bash on Mac doesn’t work the same as on Linux…
Yeaaah Macs are good for a set/forget/pay workflow… But tinkering?? Naaaah.
Brew is the only thing that saves it somehow however that’s only package manager with formulas.
MacOS is perfect for people that just want to install the software and use it (still out of the box).
But for even system configuration MacOS falls behind in many ways - I mean even in the settings. I use Ubuntu at my work and more people with Mac have DNS / Wireguard (VPN) problems than me.
pkgsrc also works well with MacOS