I think I've fallen out of love with mac os for good this time. The hardware is still pretty decent, when they make anything I actually want and can afford... a narrower gap all the time.
I just finally crawled that little bit further from my cobbled together box of donated parts that comprised my first peecee. The first thing I could call my own computer that wasn't a mac, an apple, or a texas instruments. I bought an ultrawide monitor a year ago.
It refused to work with my mac mini from the go. I found out I could reverse track and downgrade my mac os to regain functionality lost in a recent "update." I felt a year ago about as I do now. F.. no!
I pushed the aging frankenbeast box I've been pc-ing on for the last few years across my desk to the ultrawide, slowly gathering dust since the mini wouldn't work with it. Lo and behold Mint Linux has no issue just working right out the box with zero command like tweaks or control panel installs and endless reboot loops the mac mini required to even see flickers of progress.
I'm done with it. Macintosh user experience has been infiltrated by bloat since OS 8. I've spent so many install experiences undoing half of what the defaults are that I've decided mac os is unnecessary, redundant. Windows 10 is less of an issue.
Don't get me wrong, windowz is still a mass-produced product intended for the masses. It is nothing better or majorly worse than mac os. I prefer mac because the colors and fonts are less gaudy and sharp edged. Truth be told I've never liked the color palette or font treatment in windows going back to when it ran on top of DOS. It's always been ugly and grating. Win 10 is no different, just desperately wants to be...
My needs led me past Ubuntu to Mint Linux and I'm pretty happy with it. Minor issues can be solved with minimal education, minimal effort. Compared to some of the bending over backwards I've tried to do in the process of creating, maintaining, and finally failing and giving up on the hackintosh... this is just so far from that howling chaotic mess.
Mint works. Mac OS X is good, and while it used to be clearly better than windoze, now it is only just... and that's a shame. I was once an unapologetic mac fanboy. I just know how little of their default install cruft is useful, and how many other solutions I seek out and install as a "first-thing" after any new install or reformatting mac os x.
Chrome. VLC. Audacity. XBMC/Kodi. Transmission. MediaInfo. Handbrake. MakeMKV.
The majority of these solutions, apps and such are available for both linux and windows alongside mac. It's far rarer than it once was to find something that doesn't try to be [at least in beta] for all of the big three operating systems...
So yeah. I'm attempting to claw my way out of my own private rut. To stop being so reclusive and participate out in the world some more this year. To complete more projects, read more books, take more walks, and exercise more. Color outside the lines, make mistakes without immediate fear, and try to learn new things and keep growing as a person.
Oh and watch more Rick and Morty... sometimes the masses actually have a point about something. How weird is that?!?!
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