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[#]: subject: (Why I made the switch from Mac to Linux)
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[#]: via: (https://opensource.com/article/19/10/why-switch-mac-linux)
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[#]: author: (Matthew Broberg https://opensource.com/users/mbbroberg)
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Why I made the switch from Mac to Linux
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Thanks to a lot of open source developers, it's a lot easier to use
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Linux as your daily driver than ever before.
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![Hands programming][1]
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I have been a huge Mac fan and power user since I started in IT in 2004. But a few months ago—for several reasons—I made the commitment to shift to Linux as my daily driver. This isn't my first attempt at fully adopting Linux, but I'm finding it easier than ever. Here is what inspired me to switch.
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### My first attempt at Linux on the desktop
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I remember looking up at the projector, and it looking back at me. Neither of us understood why it wouldn't display. VGA cords were fully seated with no bent pins to be found. I tapped every key combination I could think of to signal my laptop that it's time to get over the stage fright.
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I ran Linux in college as an experiment. My manager in the IT department was an advocate for the many flavors out there, and as I grew more confident in desktop support and writing scripts, I wanted to learn more about it. IT was far more interesting to me than my computer science degree program, which felt so abstract and theoretical—"who cares about binary search trees?" I thought—while our sysadmin team's work felt so tangible.
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This story ends with me logging into a Windows workstation to get through my presentation for class, and marks the end of my first attempt at Linux as my day-to-day OS. I admired its flexibility, but compatibility was lacking. I would occasionally write a script that SSHed into a box to run another script, but I stopped using Linux on a day-to-day basis.
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### A fresh look at Linux compatibility
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When I decided to give Linux another go a few months ago, I expected more of the same compatibility nightmare, but I couldn't be more wrong.
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Right after the installation process completed, I plugged in a USB-C hub to see what I'd gotten myself into. Everything worked immediately. The HDMI-connected extra-wide monitor popped up as a mirrored display to my laptop screen, and I easily adjusted it to be a second monitor. The USB-connected webcam, which is essential to my [work-from-home life][2], showed up as a video with no trouble at all. Even my Mac charger, which was already plugged into the hub since I've been using a Mac, started to charge my very-not-Mac hardware.
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My positive experience was probably related to some updates to USB-C, which received some needed attention in 2018 to compete with other OS experiences. As [Phoronix explained][3]:
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> "The USB Type-C interface offers an 'Alternate Mode' extension for non-USB signaling and the biggest user of this alternate mode in the specification is allowing DisplayPort support. Besides DP, another alternate mode is the Thunderbolt 3 support. The DisplayPort Alt Mode supports 4K and even 8Kx4K video output, including multi-channel audio.
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> "While USB-C alternate modes and DisplayPort have been around for a while now and is common in the Windows space, the mainline Linux kernel hasn't supported this functionality. Fortunately, thanks to Intel, that is now changing."
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Thinking beyond ports, a quick scroll through the [Linux on Laptops][4] hardware options shows a much more complete set of choices than I experienced in the early 2000s.
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This has been a night-and-day difference from my first attempt at Linux adoption, and it's one I welcome with open arms.
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### Breaking out of Apple's walled garden
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Using Linux has added new friction to my daily workflow, and I love that it has.
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My Mac workflow was seamless: hop on an iPad in the morning, write down some thoughts on what my day will look like, and start to read some articles in Safari; slide over my iPhone to continue reading; then log into my MacBook where years of fine-tuning have worked out how all these pieces connect. Keyboard shortcuts are built into my brain; user experiences are as they've mostly always been. It's wildly comfortable.
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That comfort comes with a cost. I largely forgot how my environment functions, and I couldn't answer questions I wanted to answer. Did I customize some [PLIST files][5] to get that custom shortcut, or did I remember to check it into [my dotfiles][6]? How did I get so dependent on Safari and Chrome when Firefox has a much better mission? Or why, specifically, won't I use an Android-based phone instead of my i-things?
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On that note, I've often thought about shifting to an Android-based phone, but I would lose the connection I have across all these devices and the little conveniences designed into the ecosystem. For instance, I wouldn't be able to type in searches from my iPhone for the Apple TV or share a password with AirDrop with my other Apple-based friends. Those features are great benefits of homogeneous device environments, and it is remarkable engineering. That said, these conveniences come at a cost of feeling trapped by the ecosystem.
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I love being curious about how devices work. I want to be able to explain environmental configurations that make it fun or easy to use my systems, but I also want to see what adding some friction does for my perspective. To paraphrase [Marcel Proust][7], "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes." My use of technology has been so convenient that I stopped being curious about how it all works. Linux gives me an opportunity to see with new eyes again.
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### Inspired by you
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All of the above is reason enough to explore Linux, but I have also been inspired by you. While all operating systems are welcome in the open source community, Opensource.com writers' and readers' joy for Linux is infectious. It inspired me to dive back in, and I'm enjoying the journey.
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via: https://opensource.com/article/19/10/why-switch-mac-linux
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作者：[Matthew Broberg][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID)
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本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出
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[a]: https://opensource.com/users/mbbroberg
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-full-size/public/lead-images/programming-code-keyboard-laptop.png?itok=pGfEfu2S (Hands programming)
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[2]: https://opensource.com/article/19/8/rules-remote-work-sanity
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[3]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-USB-Type-C-Port-DP-Driver
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[4]: https://www.linux-laptop.net/
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[5]: https://fileinfo.com/extension/plist
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[6]: https://opensource.com/article/19/3/move-your-dotfiles-version-control
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[7]: https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/quotations/proust_having_seeing_with_new_eyes.html
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[#]: subject: (Why I made the switch from Mac to Linux)
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[#]: via: (https://opensource.com/article/19/10/why-switch-mac-linux)
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[#]: author: (Matthew Broberg https://opensource.com/users/mbbroberg)
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为什么我从 Mac 换到了 Linux
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> 感谢这么多的开源开发人员，使用 Linux 作为日常使用比以往任何时候都容易得多。
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![Hands programming][1]
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自 2004 年开始从事 IT 工作以来，我一直是 Mac 的忠实粉丝。但是几个月前，由于种种原因，我决定将 Linux 用作日常使用。这不是我第一次尝试完全采用 Linux，但是我发现它比以往更容易。这就是促使我转换的原因。
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### 我在个人电脑上的第一次的 Linux 尝试
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我记得我抬头看着投影机，而它和我面面相觑。我们俩都不明白为什么它不会显示。VGA 线完全接好了，针脚也没有弯折。我按了我可能想到的所有按键组合，以向笔记本电脑发出信号，想让它克服舞台恐惧症。
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我在大学里运行 Linux 只是作为实验。我在 IT 部门的经理是多种口味的倡导者，随着我对桌面支持和编写脚本的信心增强，我想了解更多有关它的信息。对我来说，IT 比我的计算机科学学位课程有趣得多，课程感觉是如此抽象和理论化：“二叉树有啥用？”，我如是想 —— 而我们的系统管理员团队的工作却是如此的切实。
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这个故事的结尾是，我登录 Windows 工作站通过了我的课堂演讲，标志着我将 Linux 作为我的日常操作系统的第一次尝试的终结。我很欣赏 Linux 的灵活性，但是它缺乏兼容性。我偶尔会写一个脚本，该脚本通过 SSH 连接到一个机器中以运行另一个脚本，但是我对 Linux 的日常使用仅止于此。
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### Linux 兼容性的全新印象
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几个月前，当我决定再试一次 Linux 时，我曾觉得我遇到更多的兼容性噩梦，但我错了。
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安装过程完成后，我立即插入 USB-C 集线器以了解兼容性到底如何。一切立即工作。连接 HDMI 的超宽显示器作为镜像显示器弹出到我的笔记本电脑屏幕上，我轻松地将其调整为第二台显示器。USB 连接的网络摄像头对我的[在家工作方式][2]至关重要，它可以毫无问题地显示视频。甚至自从我使用 Mac 以来就一直插在集线器的 Mac 充电器可以为我非常不 Mac 的硬件充电。
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我的正面经历可能与 USB-C 的一些更新有关，它在 2018 年得到一些需要的关注，因此才能与其他 OS 体验相媲美。如 [Phoronix 解释的那样][3]：
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> “USB Type-C 接口为非 USB 信号提供了‘替代模式’扩展，在规范中该替代模式的最大使用场景是允许 DisplayPort。除此之外，另一个替代模式是 Thunderbolt 3 的支持。DisplayPort 替代模式支持 4K甚至 8Kx4K 的视频输出，包括多声道音频。
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> “虽然 USB-C 替代模式和 DisplayPort 已经存在了一段时间，并且在 Windows 上很常见，但是主线 Linux 内核不支持此功能。所幸的是，多亏英特尔，这种情况正在改变。”
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而在端口之外，快速浏览一下 [笔记本电脑 Linux][4] 的硬件选择，可以显示比我 2000 年代初期经历的更加完整的选择集。
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与我第一次尝试采用 Linux 相比，这已经天差地别，这是我所张开双臂欢迎的。
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### 突破 Apple 的樊篱
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使用 Linux 给我的日常工作流程增加了一些新的麻烦，而我喜欢这种麻烦。
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我的 Mac 工作流程是无缝的：早上打开 iPad，写下关于我今天想要做什么的想法，然后开始在 Safari 中阅读一些文章；转到我的 iPhone 上继续阅读；然后登录我的 MacBook，这些地方我进行了多年的微调，已经弄清楚了所有这些部分之间的连接方式。键盘快捷键已内置在我的大脑中；用户体验一如既往。简直不要太舒服了。
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这种舒适需要付出代价。我基本上忘记了我的环境如何运作的，无法回答我想回答的问题。我是否自定义了一些 [PLIST 文件][5]以获得快捷方式，还是记得将其签入[我的 dotfiles][6] 当中？当 Firefox 的功能更好时，我如何还如此依赖 Safari 和 Chrome？或为什么我不使用基于 Android 的手机代替我的 i-系列产品呢？
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关于这一点，我经常考虑过改用基于 Android 的手机，但是我会失去在所有这些设备之间的连接以及为这种生态系统设计的一些便利。例如，我将无法在 iPhone 上为 Apple TV 输入搜索内容，也无法与其他基于 Apple 的朋友共享 AirDrop 密码。这些功能是同类设备环境的巨大好处，并且是一项了不起的工程。就是说，这些便利是被生态系统所困的代价。
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我喜欢了解设备的工作方式。我希望能够解释使我的系统变得有趣或容易使用的环境配置，但我也想看看增加一些麻烦对我的观点有什么影响。用 [Marcel Proust][7] 来解释，“真正的发现之旅不在于寻找新的土地，而在于用新的眼光来看待。”我对技术的使用是如此的方便，以至于我不再对它的工作原理感到好奇。Linux 使我有机会再次有了新的眼光。
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### 受你的启发
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以上所有内容足以成为探索 Linux 的理由，但我也受到了你的启发。尽管所有操作系统都受到开源社区的欢迎，但 Opensource.com 的作者和读者对 Linux 的喜悦是充满感染力的。它激发了我重新潜入的乐趣，我享受这段旅途的乐趣。
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via: https://opensource.com/article/19/10/why-switch-mac-linux
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作者：[Matthew Broberg][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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译者：[wxy](https://github.com/wxy)
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校对：[wxy](https://github.com/wxy)
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本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出
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[a]: https://opensource.com/users/mbbroberg
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-full-size/public/lead-images/programming-code-keyboard-laptop.png?itok=pGfEfu2S (Hands programming)
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[2]: https://opensource.com/article/19/8/rules-remote-work-sanity
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[3]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-USB-Type-C-Port-DP-Driver
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[4]: https://www.linux-laptop.net/
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[5]: https://fileinfo.com/extension/plist
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[6]: https://opensource.com/article/19/3/move-your-dotfiles-version-control
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[7]: https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/quotations/proust_having_seeing_with_new_eyes.html
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