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Two months on OSX
Sep. 17th, 2012 09:00 pmTwo months ago I wrote that my employer had given me a MacBook and asked me to use only it for work matters. This posed a bit of a hassle because I have to do work when I am out of the office, and I don't want to carry two laptops with me everywhere, or set up VPNs and passwords and such on two or three different computers. Some friends at work suggested I simply do everything on the work laptop, and I jumped into this idea. Except for dumping some photos to my desktop (a workflow I wasn't up to porting and amount of storage the laptop doesn't have), I have used only OSX 10.7 for the past two months. It has been an interesting and enlightening experience.
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Anyway, what this all boils down to is that I can't keep using OSX exclusively. It's missing too many features that make my computing life easier, and has too many anti-features that slow me down. If I had never discovered Linux, I'd have jumped ship from Windows to OSX years ago, probably on a hackintosh to avoid paying the hardware markup. As it is, I'll be going back to Linux for my daily computing. I MIGHT keep an OSX partition on the laptop so that I can do firmware upgrades, but that's about all.
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Anyway, what this all boils down to is that I can't keep using OSX exclusively. It's missing too many features that make my computing life easier, and has too many anti-features that slow me down. If I had never discovered Linux, I'd have jumped ship from Windows to OSX years ago, probably on a hackintosh to avoid paying the hardware markup. As it is, I'll be going back to Linux for my daily computing. I MIGHT keep an OSX partition on the laptop so that I can do firmware upgrades, but that's about all.