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Re: Broken

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Post by oblib »

Wow... between the linked blog post and the responses here I have to say I'm still pretty happy running Mac OS 10.11 on an late `09 Mac Mini with maxed out ram and a SSD drive so upgrading really doesn't seem necessary.

Sure, I'd love more power and a 3 monitor setup but since I only code web apps and mostly use BBEdit, Fetch, Terminal, and a few web browsers neither speed or power are really lacking.

I've figured I'd move to linux when I finally do buy a new box and this sure reinforces going that direction, especially the comments here from folks in the trenches at Apple.

That said, sounds to me like Apple needs to implement a structure of team liaisons that are assigned solely to manage product continuity between teams of coders.

Re: Broken

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Post by K0SM0S »

vvillena wrote: post #308
wldlyinaccurate wrote: post #241

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In my experience most hardware works flawlessly, although admittedly some hardware is better-supported. I've owned two (soon three) Dell XPS 13 laptops since 2013 and have always had a really smooth experience running Ubuntu. The worst of my Linux woes were the usual suspend/hibernate issues running Ubuntu on company-provided Thinkpads. I've also had to use various Macs for work in the past and have had terrible issu…

I run Archlinux on a gaming laptop (a Lenovo Legion) and it's perfect for my needs. And everything works! Linux becomes better and more compatible with each passing year. This laptop is a portable development machine with a nice keyboard and a powerful enough processor (I specifically wanted a 45W CPU). All the "pro" laptops seem to be focused on smaller sizes, and on premium/luxury features and price. I'm glad cheap…

If you are not a gamer and don't need a beefy GPU for development (most people don't), you can also look at more "workstation" grade laptops from e.g. Lenovo (P-series, that kinda thing) or Dell. You'll get a few enterprise features and spec bumps that might be beneficial versus 'gaming' features (e.g.: Xeon, ECC, more NVMe + free slots, free RAM slot, RAM up to 32 or even 64GB).

But yeah, gaming machines always make for great dev stations, whether desktop or laptop.

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Post by HeWhoLurksLate »

dTal wrote: post #370
blunte wrote: post #203

It's all very depressing. Like most of us here, I have become increasingly frustrated with the state of Mac (touch bar, bad keyboards, odd choices that fit neither creators nor developers well, and so on). No point rehashing it all. But where does that leave us? I spent a year on Windows 10 not so long ago, on upper end laptop hardware with HiDPI screen, and it was less fun and more problem prone than macOS - especia…

> Getting and keeping a Linux Desktop in good working order is harder than it should be at this age of Linux. Maybe because all the developers ran away to Macs, instead of sticking around dogfooding and fixing bugs? Free software is a collaborative social enterprise - it's not really anyone's job to make free stuff for you to use. If, as a developer, you've taken the easy path of proprietary software for years, and n…

Has anyone made an open-source micro-violin yet?

Well, there are open-source violins...

http://www.hovalabs.com/hova-instruments/hovalin

Re: Broken

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Post by Nursie »

turtlebits wrote: post #226
Nursie wrote: post #68

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By using a combo of xrandr and Xfce's hi dpi setting, I've managed to make my linux desktop more stable, functional and consistent across a 4k screen and a 1920*1200 screen next to it than Windows can manage. Sure, I had to put in a bit of effort, but now that I have the results are excellent, there's no scale jumping or even the weird rendering MacOS does when moving windows around.

Until you get new hardware and have to do the whole dance again. Now that I'm older, it's just a waste of time.

It's not much of a dance now I've figured it out.

It's worth it to me and like I say - it works better than than windows or even OS X on the same screen setup.

If that's of no value to you, that's up to you I guess. I'm in my 40s so no spring chicken...

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Post by SiVal »

bproven wrote: post #277
MisterOctober wrote: post #214

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I switched from macOS to Linux [Fedora now] about a year and a half ago, out of the same frustrations that affect a lotta folks -- It took a little while to adjust, but since there are a lot of similarities between the Linux and Darwin command lines [and Linux package management being better than homebrew by my lights] , it wasn't very long before I was like "Damn, why didn't I switch 20 years ago!!!" Plus now my har…

I agree. And I just did the opposite. Been using Fedora for a year or so on an X1 Carbon and switched to having to use a new 2019 macbook pro for work. I had fond memories of macs when I last used them 6 years ago but today....wow. Not that great an of an experience. At this point for work (eng, devops/sre etc) I'd rather have Linux and I really wish I could use my carbon X1. :( I see no real adv to dealing with the…

What I keep hoping for is for Microsoft to announce a new Windows with a Windows desktop & API on top of Linux--a gradual, parallel transition like the decade-long DOS- to NT-based Windows transition.

Since MS seems to have grown tired of trying to "sell" Windows, not sure whether to fight pirates or support them, etc., and is looking to services, most of which run on Linux, they could give "Lindows" away, like Google with Android but with more thought behind it, and create the kind of focus that could get all the things working reliably in a desktop Linux. Other Linux distros could then start with working versions of everything and offer customization options in only the areas that a specific customer segment wanted to manage for themselves.

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Post by Aeolun »

zanny wrote: post #154
snapples wrote: post #131

Things are so broken here at Apple. I joined about 4 years ago. I am awed by the fact that we manage to release any software at all, let alone functional software. The biggest problem is communication. No one fucking communicates. - No communication between orgs. Tons of bureaucratic tape to cut through just to get a hand on someone working on a different product - Barely any communication between teams. Literally ev…

It absolutely isn't the individual employee developers job or responsibility to try to fix corporate culture. Almost anyone on here or reading this is a line worker developer and trying to take on the job responsibilities of C level staff is setting yourself up for disappointment and failure. Any company larger than a few dozen people is entrenched - there will be a hierarchy and the top will dictate the order of thi…

> Any company larger than a few dozen people is entrenched - there will be a hierarchy and the top will dictate the order of things.

To a point, but have you ever tried changing something purely through a dictate from the top? People will just say ‘Yes boss!’ and then keep working exactly as they had been.

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

jjgreen wrote: post #293
magicbuzz wrote: post #84

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I'm posting in the Linux thread because it's probably annoying to some to see 'but I moved to Linux' threads throughout this comment. But the original post is very sobering. I left OS X a few years back when the new laptop came out. Partly the whole USB-C thing I suppose, but I felt that there was pretty good hardware around and the new MBP didn't really shine (and was fiercely expensive). So I made the move to Ubunt…

An X1 with Ubuntu is butter-smooth

I think the Apple touchpads are the best in the industry, along with the displays as well.

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Post by K0SM0S »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #353
colmvp wrote: post #263

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FWIW, I switched from using a Mac for a decade to using Ubuntu on a brand new Dell XPS and it works perfectly. Even though Linux users are a tiny minority of users, I find they are quite helpful at publishing their problems and eventual solutions. I did have issues setting up certain drivers (i.e. the bloody wifi which tbh is still a bit iffy on my machine) but otherwise it's been amazing.

I hear you about the community of Linux users. I'd rather have 100 bugs that I could fix in principle than 1 bug that I just have to deal with because some company thinks it's a feature. And I'd rather be part of thousands of engaged tinkerer types interested in improving the support community than be part of millions that would rather convince me that their expensive hardware is proportionally better instead of actu…

“Lately though, I have noticed that we Linux types are insufferable in our own ways...”

Indeed, but this is the (sour) price of 'victory' too: it means Linux is going mainstream now. Hence, it's becoming more 'popular' with all that entails...

Linux is best 'lived' in professional circles nowadays, imho: specific blogs, forums and channels with solution-driven people. I find myself more and more attracted to the RHEL/CentOS/Fedora space for this reason, too.

Re: Broken

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Post by kendallpark »

multibit wrote: post #286
outime wrote: post #17

I can add something to the list which is Sidecar i.e. using an iPad as secondary screen. It was a real nightmare to set it up as it’d not detect the iPad despite meeting all the requirements. I found no fixes online so I had the idea of logout & login again (iCloud) so that it might detect it. Well, it detected I had an iPad but the connection would time out every single time. After rebooting both the Mac and the iPa…

SideCar was the reason I was excited for Catalina. But alas, the feature is not supported on 2015 Retina Macbook Pros, only the newer ones with the horrible keyboard, pointless touchbar, only one kind of port, etc.

I'm in the same boat. Installed the betas on both iPad and MBP about a month ago. Turns out my 2015 pre-horrible-keyboard MBP is too old. And none of the published hacks around the restriction work nowadays.
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