Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by khc » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 9:50 AM UTC

Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
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Post by loktarogar » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 10:38 AM UTC

None of these are the experiences I have. The most concrete example - my laptop has 4 USB-C ports.

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Post by deepGem » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 10:38 AM UTC

"There is only True Way of installing software: using the Apple store. If you do anything else you are bad and you should feel bad."

Isn't this sentiment a bit excessive. Homebrew is a perfectly safe and accepted way of installing software.

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Post by throwaway-hn123 » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 10:39 AM UTC

Such a dull post.

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Post by gmac » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 10:39 AM UTC

Apple 2019: if your problem is not google-trivial, there's nothing you can do. Calling Apple's tech support line does not help, because they will just type your problem description into Google and read the first hit.

Really? My experience of calling Apple tech support (to troubleshoot something to do with Messages on my Mac) was that they were surprisingly well-informed, and they fixed my issue with approximately zero patronising, script-parroting, is-it-turned-on? nonsense.

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Post by ChuckNorris89 » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 10:40 AM UTC

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Post by Angostura » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 10:41 AM UTC

gmac wrote: post #5

Apple 2019: if your problem is not google-trivial, there's nothing you can do. Calling Apple's tech support line does not help, because they will just type your problem description into Google and read the first hit. Really? My experience of calling Apple tech support (to troubleshoot something to do with Messages on my Mac) was that they were surprisingly well-informed, and they fixed my issue with approximately zer…

Somewhat similar. In my case, they got me to install a debugging profile and spent quite a while scrutinising the output

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Post by tasogare » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 10:41 AM UTC

I had the same issue with XCode update. Today, the download finally started, progress bar reached 100% then... XCode was not installed. Infuriating. Too bad Microsoft don’t allow easy access to LTSB and destroyed Windows UI. I feel the state of commercial OS declined sharply in the last decade.

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Post by rwmj » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 10:41 AM UTC

My recollection of Linux in year 2000 was it was very easy to understand how everything worked. If you were searching for "terminal commands from discussion forums, type them in and hope for the best" then you were definitely doing it wrong (in 2000 and now).

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Post by diffeomorphism » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 10:41 AM UTC

deepGem wrote: post #3

"There is only True Way of installing software: using the Apple store. If you do anything else you are bad and you should feel bad." Isn't this sentiment a bit excessive. Homebrew is a perfectly safe and accepted way of installing software.

Will that be affected by the notarization requirements in the future?

https://discourse.brew.sh/t/code-signing-installed-executabl...