alt Hacker NewsSwitching from winslop to linux last year (thanks Satya) I did expect some teething issues. The reality was a bit different than what I imagined: fedora kde the OS is rock solid, but the software choices are a bit lacking. Just finding a good audio player can be a pain, and eventually I settled on some foobar clone fooyin, which while lacking built-in audio conversion mostly does what I want it to.
MacOS however truly takes the cake. An OS that’s great for creative softwate, working with images, video, audio and so on, and every single music player is something designed by aliens and/or buggy and/or missing some basic features. I went through ~five different players just to find one that has a waveform seekbar, eventually finding it in quodlibet, which while somewhat functional fits in the designed by aliens part. Baffling.
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> MacOS however truly takes the cake. An OS that’s great for creative softwate, working with images, video, audio and so on
Funny since there was quite a thread here yesterday or the day before about Mac users regretting the dumbification of their software, using aperture as a striking example.
Don't read me wrong, I'm not saying that MacOS doesn't have great software, I just no longer trust Apple to pander to their users. A stable, open and progressive OS like Linux+KDE with "specialty" software on top seems like the most productive combo, I hope more software editors will consider that.
I also can recommend fooyin[0]. I really miss foobar2000 after switching away from Windows, and fooyin fills that hole in my heart.
Technically fooyin also builds on macOS, but it's not officially supported yet, there's some works here[1] and there[2].
[0]: https://github.com/fooyin/fooyin
[1]: https://github.com/fooyin/fooyin/pull/476
[2]: https://github.com/fooyin/fooyin/pull/579