Why do macOS users seem to want to migrate to elementary?

I mean why elementary as your choice for a Linux distro?

They don't... my take is it's just a fiction made up by someone trying to promote a distro.

thanks for the clarification.

There's interest because of a recent, popular post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830761

As to how many people really are migrating, who knows. I'm an Apple user, but I'm not going to take the rabid fanboy position that these distro makers must be lying when they say they've noticed more interest, lately.

Vim is charity ware actually or at least that's how it was qualified when I started using it. Most of the long time vim users I know have donated several times. Vim and Emacs also have shit loads of plugins, which can make them behave just like Atom or VSCode so as usual I think it's just a matter of preference.

I am yet to know anyone that gave any money to Vim.

Would those shit loads of plugins exist if people had to pay for them?

I use OSX at work and GNU/Linux and Windows at home. The only issue I've had are native modules but with msys2 I've usually been able to solve them 90% of the time.

there we Go again.

why spend time writing about something you don't like? Is it a therapy for programmers with strong opinions?

> something you don't like?

Because you may be forced to use it at work.

nice job,

Each time I install an app that says

Offers in-app purchases

I end up uninstalling it quickly (after 1 try), those ads in apps are really annoying for the user.

It's not the developers fault, but the ad system on either Android or iOS are really annoying, even if the app has all the features, for me the ads kill it.

Atom's vim mode is a joke. No ex mode, you need another plugin for that ... which is kind of clunky.

None.

Atom's installer is a huge download, and the editor is much slower ... It also consumes much more memory and written in coffeescript. Takes a long time to start up ... just a few things on the top of my head.

It's a great initiative though so that's already a good point.

I just timed it and it was less than 5 seconds. I would suggest giving 1.0 a spin before you judge.

Thats still a long time for a text editor though. Sublime, Vim, gedit, etc are all instantaneous.

On this MacBook Pro (MacBookPro12,1) i7(3,1GHz) 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD ... it takes less that 5 seconds which is way to long for me. If that's ok for you no worries, but you can't say it isn't slow.

My Emacs with all customizations takes longer than Atom does to startup.

Which, for Emacs, is not an issue at all. Leave the server running and all clients will open instantly whenever I ask.

Hi

That's rough and I'm sorry you have to face it.

1 - Try to think positive, I know it sounds hard but it actually helps a lot.

2 - Keep working as much as you can, it will help you not to think about the negative stuff

3 - If your employer doesn't understand the problem then the job's not worth it.