Most of the switching posts are from frustrated windows users making the jump. I’m already a Linux user on my server (Ubuntu for now, going Debian at some point) and a 2014 iMac for tinkering/testing (KDE Neon), and a couple of raspberry pis (raspberry pi os headless) but our main household computer is an M1 Mac mini that my wife and I both use.

Lately I’ve been super frustrated with macOS.

  • First, macOS just refuses to mount my USB 3 drives. I have a 1T seagate ssd and a 3T WD hdd (both exFat) and it just flat out refuses to see them. The same drives are visible and mount just fine on my server and the KDE iMac. On macOS, they’re invisible. They don’t auto mount, and they don’t show up in disk utility (gui or shell), which is really fucking annoying when I’m trying to move large files between machines
  • I use Cryptomator to encrypt data on macOS, and because of their whole walled garden shtick and how they continue to lock out system extensions, macfuse routinely breaks, rendering it impossible to access my data on macOS. Again, on the KDE iMac, everything just works as it should. On the Mac It’ll throw me the enable the extension warning, so I enable it. Then it tells me I have to re-boot to actually use the extension. I reboot, and it throws the enable extension warning again. Fucking infuriating.

I hadn’t already pulled the trigger on Asahi because my wife uses the m1 more than I do, and I didn’t want to break anything she does. However today was the last straw as a task that should have taken me maybe 15 minutes took two hours of fighting with macOS. After talking with her she gave me the go ahead to install Asahi. It helps that she does most everything in the browser and that the install is a dual boot setup with macOS still available.

I used to love macOS. It felt so intuitive and while it was never flawless, it mostly just got the fuck out of my way so I could do the things I wanted and needed to do. I still love a lot about Apple hardware, but fuck that shit os. I’m happy to be running Linux on all of the computers in the house.

Now I just have to learn the Fedora differences, having used Debian derivatives up until this point.

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    7 months ago

    macOS just refuses to mount my USB 3 drives. I have a 1T seagate ssd and a 3T WD hdd (both exFat) and it just flat out refuses to see them.

    I have to re-boot to actually use the extension. I reboot, and it throws the enable extension warning again. Fucking infuriating.

    However today was the last straw as a task that should have taken me maybe 15 minutes took two hours of fighting with macOS.

    I used to love macOS. It felt so intuitive and while it was never flawless, it mostly just got the fuck out of my way so I could do the things I wanted and needed to do

    Although I do agree that macOS has seen better days the things you describe look a lot like general hardware failure because macOS still doesn’t get in the way, at least not as much as Windows, and gets the job done.

    Before you say that it all now runs fine under Linux so no hardware issues, consider that Linux is way more permissive with hardware failure than macOS is, you better have a look at dmesg while connecting / using the drives to see if there’s something potentially wrong there. Same goes for a log of the system boot.

    Either way I don’t feel like Asahi is a viable production thing yet, it’s a great effort but USB/Thunderbolt/Displays, Microphone and in some cases speakers are still not supported. I would rather see this gaining support for those before using it.

  • tsonfeir@lemmy.world
    112·
    7 months ago

    I’m not going to pressure you to use macOS, because I like Linux… and macOS. But, I think your issues on macOS are things that can be solved.

    However, if you’re happy in your new home, just stay. Linux can be very liberating. You can always go back or even dual boot if there’s something you need.

    I find being open to multiple operating systems (not windows) makes life easier. Each one has purpose.

  • FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml
    7·
    7 months ago

    moving large files

    this is not a solution to the issue of mac for no reason not wanting to mount your drive, but are you familiar with SyncThing? i’ve been using it since like 2015 and have never had an issue, it’s super fast and local. requires both devices to be powered while transferring, though

  • radix@lemm.ee
    3·
    7 months ago

    Congrats. May I ask why you choose to go Fedora rather than another Debian derivative?

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
    31·
    7 months ago

    I hope it goes well! I just had to start using a Mac for work and hate it. Just enough things I can do normally just not working. I’ve been using nix-darwin to help bridge some of the gaps so far but I wish I could try Asahi.