I’ve only gone Linux to Mac and back to Linux once. One setup had a patch to fix some white levels and that patch didn’t match across the systems. On another occasion, on 2026.2, I picked up several setups from a mac, and one had a similar problem with a patch to match levels. Everything else seemed fine, although in I completely reworked all those setups and I may have not realized some of the things I was redoing were not as originally as I saw them. I may be wrong, but I assumed the Mac burn only worked with mac and the Linux burn only worked with Linux. But I haven’t looked into it, so I may well be wrong.
Interesting… what PCoIP-client are you using on macOS?
HP Anywhere although I used DCV for a few years until they broke it.
I’ve been dealing with DCV people the last few days. Although they are nice, they are rather reluctant in understanding the actual issue. They kept blaming “the network” until I recorded a video using DCV between 2 workstations on the same 25gig fiber LAN segment. It isn’t the network.
I don’t notice any “snappiness” discrepancy between Mac and Linux.
I’m glad it’s good for some users, as it expands and edifies the product user base.
For me, if I wanted this kind of experience, I would buy a *flint. Which at least didn’t have beach balls.
It’s interesting to me. Once I removed the last remaining bits of pre2026 I find the Mac experience pretty snappy as well. Not RE2 Flame snappy but pretty fluid. Since my experience with the “current” Linux workstations are all over PCoIP the Mac feels at times even more fluid than Linux.
The difference I find is that when the Mac decides to not work it gets strange. Like all is well for long periods of time. Batch interaction feels snappy and nice, the timeline just jets along and then when the wall is hit, the threshold is crossed and something somewhere is full things just get slowly drive off a cliff until you realize of shit, I’m driving off the cliff in slow motion. What I can also say is that barrier seems to get crossed later and later with each progressive iteration of M-Whatever chips and with more and more and more ram that you can throw at the unified architecture.
By comparison, I find that Linux just keeps going until it can’t initialize a model or shits out a bad frame and then you restart and keep going.
I think ultimately the question comes down to what kind of work you’re doing on the machine and what your threshold is for pain/waiting.
Zero threshold! Ha
Bruh. You in the wrong business.
I say that to myself every day.
Still banking on my next career as a foot model.
You said RE2.
It was the gold standard of interactivity.
Having used both over the past couple of years, there are pros and cons to both so in the end it probably doesn’t matter which you choose, pick the one that makes most sense to you. For bang for the buck, it is weird to even be writing this but Mac is now the cheaper solution
I have to say that network read/write speeds was significantly slower on Linux than on Mac in our setup. We played round a lot with that with engineers and in the end it is what it is.
There are loads of reasons to choose Linux too. ML speeds is a big one. If you can afford the grunty NVIDIA cards too, render speeds is another.
Considering that a large number of us work in advertising, you think we would know better. The whole maximist approach to buying new gear is so ingrained in culture now that maybe there is a lot more potential buyer’s doubt than is justified?! You’ll be able to get the job done whether you’re on Linux or on Mac so no need to agonise about it. There is no right or wrong decision to be made here.
It does seem to be one of those discussions that animates everyone, where there are lots of opinions and few hard data points that change trajectory. It’s become more lore for the camp fire than actual hard business decision making.
If in doubt, have one of each. With the way licenses work today, simple to switch back and forth.
are you gonna give each of your clients an Apple Vision Pro for client sessions?
I brought it to my last few client attends… they were all like kids in a candy store.
Just to throw my 2cents in , I bought a top spec’d Mac Studio about 1.5years ago and I reckon it was probably the best machine ive ever worked on. No complaints from me. Was definitely more responsive than any Remote Linux box I had been logging into. Hardly any crashes either
Most companies implementation of remote machines is flawed and non-optimal. That is not a good benchmark for performance.
On premises virtual machines with Remote Desktop control is the way.
It means you can scale horizontally as required, then scale back to on prem as required.
When it’s quiet (ha! As if…) you can reconfigure resources as required (lots of tiny machines / small number of godzillas), etc.)
Or turn everything off and do cat videos with comfy ui.
YMMV