----- Original Message ----- > I came across this Reddit thread* about why devs use Mac OS X instead of > Linux. I tried to pick out a representative set of comments below as I > thought it could be a useful exercise to help us refine or reinforce our > efforts around the Fedora Workstation. Being human there probably is some > confirmation bias in my selection of quotes, but hopefully not to much :) > > I think a lot of these items are things we are already aware of and trying to > fix, but of course not all of them are easily fixable, like access to > proprietary Windows or MacOS X applications or similar hotkeys/behaviour > across UI toolkits. I think we made some great strides in the stability > department, but reading the reddit thread did reinforce that it is an area > we need to keep focus going forward. > > Christian > > <snip> > "Sure, I'd prefer to have a pure linux working environment, but it's not > worth the heartache of figuring out why last weeks update broke my > multi-monitor, again. I've got stuff to do, and OSX is good at allowing me > to get that stuff done." The "OSX isn't buggy" meme is a serious fallacy, as anyone who's had to support OSX machines will attest. "Why is Wi-Fi not working anymore? Who knows! Why is Lightroom hanging for 20 seconds when making a pixel's worth of change? Who knows!". Regressions on Linux and Fedora are a problem, and better QA is definitely needed, but OSX certainly isn't the gold standard here. <snip> > "I don't want to fiddle with config files, /etc, anything anymore." I'll add: "I can play videos and music out of the box" to that list. Cheers -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
