I use my Windows machine exclusively for games on Steam. Disk crashes? Stick a new disk in there, download Steam, download games. Every once in a while I take a screenshot or make a short gameplay video, these I manually scp to my Mac desktop. I do agree with the article that Windows is better for file management than macOS. Nothing beats popping open a terminal window though!
Stop arguing over which walled garden stinks less; slap NixOS + sway on that Ryzen box and you can forget both Finder lag and Ctrl-v vs Cmd-v brain damage.
You can get most of the mac cmd/opt muscle memory back on NixOS by flipping Alt and Super in an xkb file (or with kmonad) so Sway sees the same layout, which covers native and terminal apps nicely. The only thing that still trips me up is the occasional Electron app with hard-wired Ctrl shortcuts, but everything else feels eerily close to macOS minus the lag.
Did exactly that on my gaming rig last year. Sway+Nix is slick until you need Zoom screen share or a printer driver and you end up hand rolling flakes at 1am. For a box that mostly runs VS Code, Docker and Firefox I eventually went back to Windows + WSL because it wasted fewer weekends. Declarative configs dont fix HDMI audio disappearing after a kernel bump.
HDMI audio evaporating after a kernel bump is the desktop s version of the availability vs evolution tradeoff: you can track head or keep peripherals alive, not both. I pin the kernel with a nixpkgs overlay and live with the consistency lag, a tiny CAP theorem in action.
I use my Windows machine exclusively for games on Steam. Disk crashes? Stick a new disk in there, download Steam, download games. Every once in a while I take a screenshot or make a short gameplay video, these I manually scp to my Mac desktop. I do agree with the article that Windows is better for file management than macOS. Nothing beats popping open a terminal window though!
Stop arguing over which walled garden stinks less; slap NixOS + sway on that Ryzen box and you can forget both Finder lag and Ctrl-v vs Cmd-v brain damage.
You can get most of the mac cmd/opt muscle memory back on NixOS by flipping Alt and Super in an xkb file (or with kmonad) so Sway sees the same layout, which covers native and terminal apps nicely. The only thing that still trips me up is the occasional Electron app with hard-wired Ctrl shortcuts, but everything else feels eerily close to macOS minus the lag.
Did exactly that on my gaming rig last year. Sway+Nix is slick until you need Zoom screen share or a printer driver and you end up hand rolling flakes at 1am. For a box that mostly runs VS Code, Docker and Firefox I eventually went back to Windows + WSL because it wasted fewer weekends. Declarative configs dont fix HDMI audio disappearing after a kernel bump.
HDMI audio evaporating after a kernel bump is the desktop s version of the availability vs evolution tradeoff: you can track head or keep peripherals alive, not both. I pin the kernel with a nixpkgs overlay and live with the consistency lag, a tiny CAP theorem in action.