So last year I said to myself: “It is time to stop make things so difficult for you.” I was then walking around with two laptops; one running windows 10 (not difficult) and Linux. None of the OSes are difficult, but one of them have less applications.
I was also running a WIndows phone. I’m interested in testing new things and by doing this, I learn new stuff.
The combination of running a non-application phone and also a non-application (or make that non-professional application) OS finally got the best of me.
So I decided to go for a iPhone and an iPad. I sold an Android tab and the microsoft phone (someone actually bought it).
Then I bought a 15 inch macbook pro. This one is running bootcamp and I am able to run both windows and mac. I do – how ever have to reboot to Windows to make this work.
My reason for moving to mac is the following:
1) I get the power of Linux (the terminal) and …
2) the power of windows (the applications)

Before I bought the Apple computer I was told that I would experience less bugs than on Windows. Fact is that I rarely experience bugs in Windows (I’m using Dell with Win10). And a much more stable hardware.
The fact is that I have already had two freezes and that I do experience what I think are bugs on my Apple computer.

So how has the move to Mac been?
I am pretty certain I will never become an Apple fan boy. The hardware is great to look at and it works more or less as expected.
There are annoyances how ever:
1) When I log in I am greeted with the ABC Extended keyboard. I have a Norwegian keyboard, and so some characters are not in the same position. So I have to change the keyboard layout for logging in every time.
2) Trying to use the wired network at the office isn’t possible. I can set the fixed ip and all that, and the computer tells me I am connected… but… I am not. I also cannot connect to other computers on my network. Wireless works however…

Edit: The reason for the non-working wired network (on Apple), was that I had to many usb-connections. Windows warns me about this (telling me something about the display port), Apple do not.
3) I upgraded from Sierra to High Sierra and from what I understand it is not possible to downgrade. The reason is because High Sierra is using a new filesystem.

Looking at the list from a Linux perspective I am going over the list above backwards:
3) If a new version of a Linux distribution would make a breaking change they would inform this in advance and also make it possible to roll back in case you did decide to upgrade, but found out the upgrade wasn’t for you. Since I upgraded to High Sierra my only way to downgrade is to go to the shop and tell them to downgrade for me, which may take a while. Since this computer is my main computer now, I don’t have time to leave the computer at some shop…
(I may have been warned about this change, but since I am new to Apple, I didn’t know about this … not a good excuse).

2) Setting up wired network on Linux (I was/am using Ubuntu Linux) has never been a problem. I can do it both using the GUI and using the terminal. My Mac not being able to use the wired network is really annoying. My Windows side of things just picks it up and uses it.

1) Having one keyboard setup while logging in and another one after logging in is also annoying. I am living with it, but I would like to see it being corrected/fixed by Apple.

If the list above happened on a Linux I wouldn’t be as annoyed as I am with my experienced with the Apple computer. The reason is that Linux is a free Operating System that I decided to install on a laptop (most likely an old laptop). The Apple computer costed a small fortune and Apple is making a lot of money from selling these computers with their operating system on it.

I’ve also thought a bit about Linux during this process and I do believe the future for Linux could look a lot different it …
* Some distributor (Ubuntu) decided to create awesome looking hardware (like the Apple computer)
* Told software producers like Microsoft and Adobe to start making software for their platform. Also perhaps funding some of the development (although none of the software houses above need the money).

I believe getting the professional software on Linux from the big gest software houses in the world, but change a lot for Linux.

So.
Am I impressed with my Apple Computer? (Macbook Pro 15″ with 16gb ram and 512 gb hard drive)
No, not really.

First of all, support from Apple is non-existence. When buying a Dell computer you get aid from a great website where you can download any driver that came with your computer (using the service Id). I also got on site support – once because sometimes during boot the Dell computer didn’t find the harddrive, and once because there was a small break in the computer case.
If there is a problem with my Mac I have to get it to the shop where I bought it (which is an hour drive away) and then wait for up to two weeks (or longer) to get it fixed.
Luckily I have not yet needed any hardware support from Mac, and I hope I never will.

I am also not impressed with the second keyboard during startup/login. It’s an annoyance, but I am willing to live with it. Hopefully someone at Apple picks up this post and tell me how to fix this or that they do fix this in an update.

Thirdly I am really not impressed with the computer not being able to use the wired network.