No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple’s anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can’t even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don’t even own it.

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    That’s a really interesting answer - it all makes sense that those things can be irritating, and also why I had no idea about them:

    For years I have had my applications and windows (IDE, tabbed console, browser(s)) set up in fixed positions. I rarely switch between them in a way which isn’t a keyboard shortcut (99% command-tab) or involves the mouse anyway (for testing, or video calls). I never normally move windows between screens or anything like that in my workflow.

    In the good and very old days I literally just had emacs maximised and that was it, all day long 😇

    I guess I got lucky in a sense - that not needing functionality meant I wasn’t affected by it being missing, but it might partly be a positive side effect of desiring simplicity and less from the WM so I can focus on my own things.

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      11 year ago

      Yes, that’s exactly my view of OS X. If you can adapt your workflow to its limited functionality you will have a pretty stable, simple, easy to use environment. If you’re workflow doesn’t fit you’re out of luck and using it will be very painful. Linux on the other hand just offers you all the settings you need so everyone can work the way they like.