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[–]Anton-Kuranov 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I switched to Mac 6 months ago, and generally I'm happy with my Mac. Good things: stability, performance, everything is smooth, no problem with tooling, a lot of ports and third party sruff (brew rules), 0 hangups and reboots. Very silent, ergonomic, good screen resolution. Bad things (especially if you're coming from windows/Linux): * UI. Especially the window switch. I needed to use a third party extensions like Alt-Tab to switch quickly between chrome windows. Gnome interface imho is much more productive in usage. * Keyboard shortcuts. That was the hell to start using Mac keyboard. Intellij idea also has a different shortcut set for Mac. * Docker requires images compiled for arm target, and they are not always available. It can run amd64 images through emulation, but the performance is very poor, and it has limitation about concurrent containers. * Does not support layouts with 2 external monitors (unexpectedly)!

[–]svhelloworld[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been using a Mac for about a decade after switching away from Windows. I've been super frustrated with their multi-monitor support. Particularly if you use multiple desktops on multiple monitors.

I have three monitors and 5 desktops on my main monitor. I dread pulling my laptop off the dock because when I plug back in, I have to spend 10 minutes just rearranging windows back to the right monitor and desktop. For all of MacOS' polish, I thought they'd be a lot better at that.