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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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Tonitrus

I grew up in a mostly PC environment as a kid/young adult.  At some point, I got a Macbook, and used/was issued a Macbook for the last 4 years.

For about the last ~10 years I've kept a PC for gaming, and use a Macbook laptop for web cruising/casual stuff, and feel pretty proficient in both systems.

Tonitrus

Quote from: grumbler on August 07, 2025, 09:54:41 AM
Quote from: Josquius on August 07, 2025, 09:08:07 AMI recently had to ask for a new work computer and decided to go with a mac as with some other small reasons I figured it'd be good for keeping a solid division between work and personal use.
Simple things suck. Just snipping a small bit of the screen :bleeding:

My experience with Apple products is that they make difficult things easy and easy things difficult.

Agree...just a basic thing like maneuvering through files/folders in MacOS is more frustrating than in Windows.

Sheilbh

Quote from: DGuller on August 07, 2025, 08:21:49 AMIt probably goes in the other direction as well.  I got a MacBook Pro at work, and I could never get used to it to the point where I'm nearly as productive with it as with a shitty HP laptop.  The biggest problem for me was that it tried to be so helpful to me by removing control from me that I could never do anything I wanted without a lot of headache.
Working in a media company and they planned to move to 100% Mac and there was an absolute revolt in the legal team :lol: :ph34r:
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Baron von Schtinkenbutt

Yeah, at Twitter finance and legal had a number of users of Windows machines.

Grey Fox

I use all 3 in both my personal and professional life. My Mac is a MacBook Air from 2018. I will not be getting an other one. I much prefer tinkering in Linux distro than using MacOS. It has a awesome screen tho.
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HisMajestyBOB

Quote from: Tonitrus on August 07, 2025, 11:22:12 AMI grew up in a mostly PC environment as a kid/young adult.  At some point, I got a Macbook, and used/was issued a Macbook for the last 4 years.

For about the last ~10 years I've kept a PC for gaming, and use a Macbook laptop for web cruising/casual stuff, and feel pretty proficient in both systems.

Similar, except I grew up in an Apple II -> Mac environment.
I still use a MacBook with Windows as a dual-boot option, and use various flavors of Linux and Unix on other computers. I don't find Macs too difficult to use compared to Windows, but that's because I just open up the terminal and use that to get anything slightly difficult done. Windows, on the other hand, makes me have to click everywhere rather than let me type in my commands via a command line interface.
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DGuller

I dual boot to Mint on my own PC, when I need to do some data science.  Mint is so much easier to use than MacOS, even though both descend from Unix one way or another.

HisMajestyBOB

I prefer Debian. Rock-solid and stable, and most of my interface is going to be through the terminal so I don't care how it looks.
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Josquius

I dream of one day sliding through time and space into a world where Acorn survived and RISCOS remains a viable choice
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Sheilbh

Am a week late to this but :lol:
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surely one of you have already thought about this. if not.... it's not too late.
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Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
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crazy canuck

As predicted young workers want to be in the office. 



QuoteA survey by employment agency Robert Half showed nearly 60 per cent of Gen Z workers wanted in-office working time and are concerned about a lack of opportunity when working remotely. This makes sense – these are young adults who completed high school or university during pandemic lockdowns. Now, when they're learning to adapt to workplace culture and working within a team, doing so in person is especially helpful.
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Zanza

The original research linked in the Globe and Mail article where that quote is from  seems to be based on interviews from late 2022 and early 2023, which was much closer to the pandemic than now. Main reason given is missing out on visibility and promotions.

More recent trends would be interesting if that holds. In my fairly conservative workplace I have the impression that presence is still a key ingredient of being noticed and considered for leadership (we have a five day office directive for senior management). That has led to some people quitting, especially millennials.

Josquius

I'd like to be in the office if it means somewhere 15 minutes away from my house where I'm not being forced to watch the clock and can work from elsewhere when it makes sense.

I wouldn't like to be in the office if it means moving to a town on the other side of the country to do a strict locked in 9-6 every day.

In practice its usually not an equal comparison.
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crazy canuck

Quote from: Zanza on August 12, 2025, 06:55:30 AMThe original research linked in the Globe and Mail article where that quote is from  seems to be based on interviews from late 2022 and early 2023, which was much closer to the pandemic than now. Main reason given is missing out on visibility and promotions.

More recent trends would be interesting if that holds. In my fairly conservative workplace I have the impression that presence is still a key ingredient of being noticed and considered for leadership (we have a five day office directive for senior management). That has led to some people quitting, especially millennials.


Yes, that is also my experience both for my clients and our firm, and generally employers are ok with replacing millennials with the incoming workforce for a variety of reasons.
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In several surveys, the overwhelming first choice for what makes Canada unique is multiculturalism. This, in a world collapsing into stupid, impoverishing hatreds, is the distinctly Canadian national project.