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I've been using MacOSX as my primary desktop since the days of Rhapsody. But I always had Linux virtual machines running on occasions. A dwindling number of machines at home were running Linux, most notably a couple of Raspberry Pi and a Synology Diskstation. And when I installed Linux, I usually went for Ubuntu, which did a good job polishing the user experience. The build ring for Tao3D includes a number of virtual machines running several major distros for testing purpose, but it's been quite inactive for a while, and repairing it is on my short-term to-do list.
Working for Red Hat, I thought I had to use Fedora as my primary desktop. And the experience has been a bit underwhelming so far, unfortunately. In just three days, I managed to render a Mac Book Pro unbootable in OSX, had several different issues with skippy or laggy mouse cursors and even non-responsive keyboards, had a driver crash attempting to access my home Wi-Fi, found out the hard way that NFS performance is just horrible, and had to use Google for trivial things way too often.
I complained several times on this blog about what I perceived as a degradation of OSX software quality since 10.6, but this experience with Linux puts all this in some serious perspective.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Subsentient on Friday December 23 2016, @09:22PM
I'm on Fedora right now, and it's generally very stable for me.
If I'm blunt honest, I think a large part of it is that you're on a Mac. Jumpy cursors is not something I've had before unless the system
was running out of RAM and swapping like mad.
Try it on a PC, even a new PC, should perform FAR better. Apple and their proprietary shit...
That said, Linux isn't blameless, there should be better support for Apple stuff.
But yeah, being on Mac is probably what's doing 90% of what you described.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday December 23 2016, @09:30PM
Using the VESA rather than accelerated video modes can conceivably cause jumpy cursors.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Sunday December 25 2016, @02:14AM
Yeah, but in my experience you don't have that, just window tearing during dragging.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Friday December 23 2016, @09:52PM
Just commented below very much in line with this. Macs haven't been Linux friendly for a few iterations. Apple does not play well with others. It's not just the software that is going downhill.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @03:23AM
That'd be fine and all, but in the article...
...and that's a pretty reasonable assumption.
Mind you, I've got Fedora running pretty okay on one of my machines, other than the very likely possibility that AMD video under Linux is ridiculously garbage vs on Windows, since I'm getting drastically lower graphics performance on the machine
There's more than a fair share of genuine issues that aren't specific to Linux on Macs there, like the fact that multiple display support on Linux is miserably poor.
and wifi is an eternal issue, but that's more on the hardware manufacturer's end with not providing proper docs about the chipset