Hi
I have been wondering: What would be the ideal setup for getting actual work done? Most of us like to play around with different configurations. Be it on the Apple side or on Windows/Android. But playing around and see that things can be done on a device is not the same as getting actual work done as fast as possible without mistakes. I realize that there will not be one answer that fits all. So please tell me about what you use, why you use it and how it helps you getting things done.
At the moment I am using an iPhone 15 Pro, a Windows Laptop with JAWS and NVDA, a Mac mini and a Fairphone 5.
The iPhone is my daily driver. Responding to messages and quickly read messages is just so fast with BSI.
The Windows Laptop is my go-to-Device for getting Office-Stuff and Audiowork done. MS-Office, Zoom, research, writing papers, all that.
The Mac mini is attached to my TV to watch some YouTube with my partner on the sofa. It also has gPodder running which downloads all the new Podcast episodes which get renamed by Hazel and moved to a directory which periodically gets scanned by our Music-Server which also runs on the Mac. That then gets picked up by our Home Assistant to control our various Squeezebox Radios with the very handy Philips Hue switches.
Last but not least: The Fairphone is used for using open street maps. We have OSMand and brouter installed on the device for touring with our Tandem and on walks adding to the Open Street Maps Data.
If you want: Let me know what you are using and why. Maybe we could go into tweaks and customisations which actually help to get stuff done faster.
Greetings from Germany
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Without knowing more
It would be helpful to know specifically where you think you might be wasting time and effort. Otherwise, we're guessing. the only thing we could tell you is what we do and what we like, which may or may not be relevant. Also, if you switch to MacOS, there is a learning curve. You would have to invest time and energy to learn before you can start using and only then would you begin to learn where you are inefficient, which itself might simply be the result of using a new operating system.