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diff --git a/content/blog/2024/multi-os-life.md b/content/blog/2024/multi-os-life.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..438296b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024/multi-os-life.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ ++++ +title = "Multi OS life is terrible" +author = ["MichaĆ Sapka"] +date = 2024-09-04T10:53:00+02:00 +categories = ["blog"] +draft = false +weight = 2001 +image_dir = "blog/images" +image_max_width = 600 +abstract = "Remove Mac from my life with a buzzsaw if you can" ++++ + +I am very much invested in my personal computer. +It's still a laptop, but all the software there is chosen to give me as much control as I can. +My OS is FreeBSD, my browser is (still) Firefox, my editor (and the way of life is) Emacs, and now my windows manager is Fvwm. +All of those allow me to adjust them to my liking. + +But this is not the computer I use the most. +For 8 hours a day, I am forced to macOS. +It's a system that used to be good, but each version is getting progressively worse. +But it also removes all power from now. +It should be the IT department I am fighting with, not Tim Cook! + +I am able to reproduce **some** life necessities on Mac via external programs, like Yabai or skhd. +Unfortunately, that takes me only a few steps, and still I am forced to look at the blandest interface ever conceived. + +But at the same time, this makes me appreciate non-corporate ridden software even more. +It can't get much worse than macOS, right?[^fn:1] + +[^fn:1]: The last Windows I've used extensively was XP. + My computers were always to slow for anything newer. |