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I loved the MacbreakWeekly with Paul, Richard, and Leo segment!
I never knew people liked full screen mode on macOS; I could never personally get into that workflow. I pretty much only use windowed experienced on desktop OSes.
I’m very excited for remote phone on my Mac. I am excited to have access to iPhone apps on my Mac that were never allowed (by their developers) on the Mac via iOS app compatibility layer
Don’t tell Paul that in order to play VALORANT on PC you need to install a Ring 0 driver :x
Regarding the word processing book that Leo and Paul were referring to during the section on WordStar, I think that they were thinking of “Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing” by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. It’s published by Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674417076
As a counterpoint to the anecdotes of modern day authors who are still using WordStar, one of the best-selling guides to it, “Introduction to WordStar”, was written by an author who hated the word processor so much that he had explicitly stated in his contract that he didn’t have to use WordStar to write the book!
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I had an interesting observation this week (well - let’s see…).
So I love the rebel act of trying to get deeper and deeper into Linux. Just like the guys discussed: trying to avoid offers from the incumbent and rather going for the free alternative. As “performing this act”, I really like listening to WW: there seems to be so much going wrong with Windows and Microsoft and at the same time so much incredibly right with their profitability that it just bakes the perfect mind pretzel. It’s a lovely, salty bit of infotainment caramel.
Now, the hook: For work, I was forced to work with Windows 11 and Office in the past weeks. And I am ashamed to say that it’s NOT THAT HORRIBLE! Things work surprisingly well. The inshirtification isn’t even that intense. I don’t really see adds anywhere. Things work. Nothing needs fixing, really.
I mean: I love the idea and implementation of Linux, but now I feel like getting drawn back into the gravity field of Microsoft and I really hate that I quite like it. Alright: this experience has been one of the past few weeks, not too long to find things to object to, really.
But I really have to say: as a loyal WW listener while being a Linux user, I have really come to expect that Windows is a horrible experience created by “interns”, designing software on a whim. And here I go, fan of Linux, coming to Windows, and seeing several advantages and hardly any of the drawbacks.
Interesting! I’ll observe this a little longer. My working hypothesis is that I might just be one of the “normal people” who really don’t care to look too closely. Alternative: I just like to explore systems left and right, and Linux seems like a level that I’ve played now. Time to figure out this wonderful beast called Windows, again.
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The Pro and Enterprise versions are a lot better than the Home version that Paul generally uses, a lot of the advertising isn’t there, although it does tend to put the OneDrive and Teams ads front and centre, when you first log on to a new machine.
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I use it all the time. I helps minimising distractions. At the same time I have several displays that are thematic and within those I have one app with several tabs. This applies to browsers, IDE terminal, etc
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Windows are not bad these days. Outlook and office are similarly nice products. But MS keeps messing things up. I usually keep a windows box around and a couple of years ago an update destroyed my system. I was never able to recover that installation.
Tbh I did not spend too much time on it since I primarily use Linux and MacOS but since then I am ver cautious with windows updates.
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Funny, I get ads constantly in Microsoft products for copilot. These little mini banners keep popping up in teams, office, outlook, etc and steal the context from whatever you’re doing. It’s driving me insane.
My Linux at home is beautiful. The worst it does is tell me what extra patches I would get under esm when I run updates.
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