Don't Switch From Windows To Linux...Switch To Mac Instead?!

I don't really read a lot of online tech journalism, especially articles about desktop Linux because for me those are infuriating to read. The the articles that people write about desktop Linux, most of them seem well most of them are really fluff kind of content. They don't have any real substance. A lot of them seem like they were written by AI most of the time. And then the ones that are actual articles written by a human being, sometimes they're not written by anybody that's knowledgeable at all about Linux. And one that I came across the other day I wanted to share with you guys is this article on make use of. Sorry Linux fans. This OS is actually the better Windows replacement. And then we see the screenshot here. He's showing a MacBook. Now, normally again, you know, I don't read these kinds of articles, but when I saw the headline, I had to read this thing because there's no way any serious tech journalist could suggest that Mac OS is a better Windows replacement than Linux. Like, I can't I can't imagine a scenario where I would ever recommend somebody move from Windows to Mac. Like, like what is what's the play there? So reading along with the article here, he makes four main points of why he thinks MacOSS is the true alternative to Windows. Like if you want to replace Windows with something, your only option is MacOSS. And the first one he talks about here is app support. He says app support is miles better on Mac OS. And this one kind of makes my brain hurt a little bit. Like this is so subjective to the person. There are certain applications that are available on Mac OS that are not available on Linux. Guess what? There's also applications that are available on Linux that aren't available on Mac OS. And we could say the same thing about Windows as well. You know, this will be depending on the person and the software they're required to use. Yeah, there's going to be software that's not available on all these operating systems. So when he says app support is miles better on Mac OS he's really talking about well in the article he talks about two things that he has to use. He has to use Microsoft Office and the Adobe Creative Suite which are not available on Linux. Now technically speaking I mean you could use Office 365 on Linux. So you could use the cloud-based you know Microsoft Office 365 but if you need the actual desktop client yeah it doesn't run natively on Linux. The Adobe Creative Cloud Suite doesn't work at all on Linux. But then again, if you're somebody that is using Linux primarily as your desktop operating system, like me, been using it nearly 20 years exclusively, I don't know anything about Microsoft Office or these Adobe programs cuz they were never available to me anyway. I've grown used to using things like Libre Office, which he does mention in this article that you know Microsoft Office doesn't work on Linux, but you know there is Libre Office and for editor there is Da Vinci Resolve works on Linux, but he mentions that's not what he needs. he needs these other products. And you know, again, this is it's all about, hey, the stuff I really needed, you know, doesn't work on Linux, so therefore Linux sucks and Mac OS is better. And, you know, I I think as a journalist, you got to you got to take things in a a a broader perspective. It can't all be about you. Now, one thing he does mention, although he says app support is miles better on Mac OS than Linux, he does admit that Linux is a million times better at gaming than Mac OS, which obviously anybody with a functional brain already knew that. But I I'm glad he pointed that out. Uh, but I guess he doesn't game, so it doesn't count, right? Like if he was a hardcore gamer, he probably would have said, "Well, Linux is miles better than, you know, Mac OS." But, you know, for him, you know, it's all about, hey, I need Microsoft Office to work, so I've got to use Mac OS. Well, at that point, why not just stick to Windows? Why are you replacing Windows if you're so dependent on some of this Microsoft software? I mean, I I don't understand the move. It's a strange move. Some other points he makes. Now, this one's a pretty fair one. Linux still has a huge learning curve, and he mentions that the terminal is still a necessity on Linux. Well, it's not necessarily a necessity. It's there. There are millions of people that use desktop Linux that never ever use the terminal. There are many distributions like Auntu. He's showing a screenshot of Linux Mint. Other, you know, rather user-friendly desktop Linux distributions would include things like uh MX Linux, Zoran, and you know, there's a lot of really userfriendly Linux distributions that have a large user base, and most of their users are not techies. They're not geeks, they're not programmers, and they don't live in the terminal. Right? So when he says the terminal is still a necessity, not really because I I I've put hundreds of people on Linux over the years as far as just normal people that are not interested in learning anything about the fundamental operating system and they never use the terminal. Right? So I again I think I I think that's almost a troll job, you know, like that's that's one of the uh the things that like Windows fanboys and Mac fanboys often talk about Linux is, oh, it's so hard. You have to live in a terminal. And maybe that was the case 25 years ago. Not the case now. Probably the worst point he makes in this article is this one here, though. Hardware support can be very hit or miss. And he's talking about with Linux, not with Mac OS. And this makes my brain hurt a little bit because Mac OS doesn't have nearly the hardware support that Linux has. The Linux kernel is millions and millions and millions of lines of code. And that's because of all the device drivers baked into that thing. Linux can run on practically every computing device known to man from, you know, laptops and desktops and servers, IoT devices. It's running on the microwave in my kitchen, right? Linux runs on everything. It runs on clock radios. It runs on cars, you know, car stereo systems and things like that. Linux runs on everything. MacOSS is not even in the same league as Linux as far as the Linux kernel. Mac OS is designed specifically to run on Mac hardware. You have to run Mac OS on Mac hardware, which is extremely limiting. Now, in this article, he mentions he had a problem when he was trying Linux because he had a SSD drive that, you know, when he, you know, wiped out whatever was on the computer, probably Windows, you know, he installed Linux on it, rebooted the machine, his SSD wouldn't boot. And, you know, he blames this on Linux. Uh, this is, you know, depending on what his problem here was. you probably had to go into the BIOS and, you know, enable or disable secure boot or something like that or you had to turn on a specific flag with the grub boot loader or whatever it happens to be. You know, these problems aren't these are not crazy hard problems to solve. And he mentions it it wasn't a crazy problem to solve. Uh but he mentions that he shouldn't have to do that. Well, this is this is not a Linux problem. This is I had to install an operating system on a device. You know, if he had to install Windows on that device, he may have had similar issues or different issues. If he had to install Mac OS himself on a device, he would have similar issues. This is not a Linux versus Mac OS problem. This is I had to install the operating system problem. And you know, for Linux, yeah, most of the time when you're running Linux, you do install the operating system yourself. And that is it number one point is most people don't want to install another operating system. So, you know, this is a fair point. 99% of the people that run Linux install it themselves, right? You buy a machine from Best Buy, you know, some cheap laptop that's already pre-installed with Windows, you know, you're not going to run Windows on it. You just wipe it out and install, you know, whatever it is you're going to use, uh, Buntu, Debian, Arch Linux, whatever. You know, pick your favorite Linux distribution. That's the one you're going to put on it. So, yeah, he's right. Most of us do install our own OS. Now, if you're somebody that is scared of installing your own operating system, there are companies that do sell equipment with Linux pre-installed. There's actually several of them out there. Uh, now it's obviously not as prevalent as, you know, going and getting a machine that's already running Windows or Mac OS, but it's if if you look for it, you'll find them. So, while I think his point, you know, here that, you know, most people don't want to install their OS, I think it's it's a fair point, I also think, again, it lacks a little bit of perspective. And I found this article kind of frustrating to read because, you know, occasionally he would hit a point that I I do think is a fair point, but he did it kind of in a trollish way. Even Even the headline of the article, it's obvious this is clickbait, right? He's trying to He knows all of us Linux fanboy are going to be pissed off by this headline. Sorry Linux fans. This OS is actually the better Windows replacement. Then he shows the picture of the damn MacBook, right? He knew I was going to get triggered by that. Now, my biggest issue with this article is not the points he made. It's actually a point he didn't make. He's mentioning he wants to move from Windows, replace Windows, get Windows out of his life, and he's looking for a better alternative, right? he's looking for hopefully free and open source software. Like if you're wanting to leave Windows because of all the Microsoft shenanigans and the data mining and the spyware and you know the ads in the operating system and the the crazy updates that sometimes brick people's machines. And if you just want to leave all of that behind, why are you going to another proprietary operating system? one that in many ways is much more locked down than even Windows. It's just a strange move. Like if you want actual freedom, digital freedom, you want freedom with your software, with your operating system, Linux is really the only move. It's the only move that makes sense. It does not make sense. Like if this is a half-assed move, moving from Windows to Mac OS, right? If you're going to make the move, make the move all the way, right? And that's Windows to Linux. Anyway, that's food for thought. What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments down below. Peace, guys.