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I never use Ookla for this reason. I use the Google speed test here in the states.

Affinity Photo is also really really good. I’d imagine it’s high profile and will have good support in wine.

All the more reason to put your windows personal folder and /home folders on a separate partition. Windows IIRC doesn’t enforce you storing applications in a particular location, so just make your OS install small (you can resize it later).

I can’t wait for the hardware Android continuity… that’s the only thing I’m waiting on now to switch to Android besides the raw performance being equal.

I’m sure Qualcomm knew what they were doing

You can install switch blockers on the physical switches if you really want to go the smart bulb route.

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My Satechi dongle has been pretty solid as a pass through for my MacBook. No issues so far.

I use Apple Maps for directions and Google maps when I want to “explore” or look for restaurants. Discovery on Apple Maps is still awful and requires you to have Yelp installed. On the flipside though they beat Google to having intersection lights and stop signs on the map while driving. The overall experience and animations are also far smoother on Apple Maps which is what makes me use it for driving. Google maps, like many Google products has a low framerate for its animations.

My next car will have enhanced CarPlay with the new customization features. Not like an American car brand will be missed anyway.

We’re the little video clips not working for anyone else?

Intel will get this year’s update, and next year’s update and be canned after that.

These are the applications that both recruited me to and kept me on MacOS:

BettertouchTool (I use a 3 finger click to be a middle click for closing tabs, 4 finger swipe up for Mission Control and 4 finger swipe down for exposé and 4 finger force click to simulate cod+q to close an application)

Alfred

PastePal - clipboard snippets and history manager

Mint is pretty lightweight so I’d almost argue that you have room to install a heavier distro if your PC is fairly high spec’d.