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Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by jablan »

Torwald wrote: post #93
juped wrote: post #50

I will say that Mac OS is incredibly disk-hungry (and MBPs get vastly more expensive when you add options like bigger (still not that big) disks). I don't want to become a Mac OS hobbyist and figure out how this happens (I like Mac OS overall because it's a BSD and I'm a BSD guy, but it is not my hobby BSD of choice) so I ended up just spending a few bucks on some "cleaner" program that purged a surprisingly huge amo…

What is wrong with using a lot of disk? If apps start faster, run faster, then using more disk is a good trade-off.

Unless there is some compression involved, using more disk means slower starting and running apps. Edit: even with compression, I'd argue that uncompressing is faster than reading disk.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by youdontknowtho »

I know what this guy is trying to say about Apple, but it should be said that Linux isn't that way any more.

Really the last time I installed a Linux distro on a laptop it went wonderfully. I'm not even a Linux fan boy. I'm also not usually complimentary about things like this that should just be the norm. All that said, client side Linux is so much better than it used to be. It's a dramatic improvement.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by Infernal »

hnhg wrote: post #101
guacjack wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally agree, a few years ago I had a 2015 27inch iMac with AppleCare which ended up getting a smudge under the display. Apple repaired it no problem. About a year later, the stand became a little loose so over the course of the day it would end up tilting down. Apple sympathised this was the 2nd time I had to send it in for a repair, they ended replacing with a similar specced iMac from the current year. They also…

It depends on the person you get to help you, I think. Some friends have had faulty power supplies replaced even out of warranty but I was told they couldn't help me and I had to buy a new one. It's down to luck, I think.

100% agreed on the luck. I took my 2007 era MacBook to the Apple Store in 2009 or so for a battery that had begun to swell, and incidentally that had suffered from the notorious cracked top case issue. I had a friend that worked at the Genius Bar but he was busy with another customer so I just got luck of the draw with regard to technician.

Despite being out of the 1 year warranty without Apple Care, the woman who took my computer put in a work order to have the top case replaced and handed me a new battery off the shelf and rang it up $0.00

My friend was free as I was walking out of the store, and asked what it was I came in for. I explained about the top case and battery and when he realized I was getting the repair and replacement for free, he looked incredulous and said that he would've charged anyone for both of those without warranty or AppleCare.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by jesuschroist »

threeseed wrote: post #20

1. Never once seen an issue with USB-C to HDMI or VGA connections. It doesn't even make any sense since MacBook Pro users with external, third party monitors are an extremely common combination. 2. I just downloaded Caret (Markdown editor) from their website and used Homebrew to install a CLI tool. Nothing has changed between the current OSX and previous ones. 3. If you have a tech support issue go into the Apple Sto…

There is not a single tech support issue which would make me get out of my slippers into some store.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by EugeneOZ »

threeseed wrote: post #20

1. Never once seen an issue with USB-C to HDMI or VGA connections. It doesn't even make any sense since MacBook Pro users with external, third party monitors are an extremely common combination. 2. I just downloaded Caret (Markdown editor) from their website and used Homebrew to install a CLI tool. Nothing has changed between the current OSX and previous ones. 3. If you have a tech support issue go into the Apple Sto…

> If you have a tech support issue go into the Apple Store and work with them 1-1. Very rare to find anything that someone in the store doesn't know.

Apple Store is a crowd of tired as hell staff who's only desire is to get rid of you.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by skrebbel »

threeseed wrote: post #20

1. Never once seen an issue with USB-C to HDMI or VGA connections. It doesn't even make any sense since MacBook Pro users with external, third party monitors are an extremely common combination. 2. I just downloaded Caret (Markdown editor) from their website and used Homebrew to install a CLI tool. Nothing has changed between the current OSX and previous ones. 3. If you have a tech support issue go into the Apple Sto…

> 5. If you resort to calling groups of people "condescending elitist hipster latte drinkers" then pretty sure you've lost the argument.

As a condescending elitist hipster latte drinker on an ultralight convertible Lenovo Yoga + Windows 10, I feel excluded. The days that condescending elitist hipster latte drinkers only used Mac have long passed.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by sverige »

liquid-monthly wrote: post #110
stefano wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regarding the first point, I had to give up on using an external monitor because fonts look blurry and give me a headache after a while. The same monitor with Windows and Linux shows perfectly fine fonts. I tried all sort of incantations found on forums, and nothing works.

This should do the trick. https://github.com/LumingYin/macOSLucidaGrande Note for me, this makes the ••• dots go away when typing passwords into system prompts. Fine!

"Things break at random for reasons you can't understand and the only way to fix it is to find terminal commands from discussion forums, type them in and hope for the best."

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by yawgmoth »

esotericn wrote: post #120

Well, no, it's not the Linux of 2000, it's worse than that, because it's closed source. The GNU/Linux (e.g. the ecosystem) of 2019 is really fantastic. It keeps on getting better, and better, and better. There may be a few missteps, maybe you don't like GNOME 3, but you can still use Xfce, or KDE, or LXDE, or i3 or whatever else if you want, no-one is stopping you. By contrast, if Apple or Microsoft update the OS and…

Earlier this year I purchased a fairly pricey Asus laptop. A few months in the wireless card appeared to commit seppuku so I reinstalled the drivers, no dice, reinstalled windows, no dice and now my touchpad was broken. Every driver failed to affect any device, so I installed the latest Ubuntu and it all 'just worked', including the keyboard backlight.

When I explained this to ASUS support they said the hardware must be faulty and my only option is to send the laptop in. That is ostensibly not true as Ubuntu can't magically repair hardware failures.

Meanwhile my other Windows box restarts every night, but fails to apply updates, so every time I use it I am greeted with that failure and no insight or path to success.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by AsyncAwait »

tasogare wrote: post #71
jsjohnst wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you on Catalina or Mojave by chance?

Yes. I installed Catalina for Sidecar, only to discover the feature wasn’t supported on the 2015 MBP.

Not ideal, but http://dev.zeppel.eu/luca/SidecarCorePatch might help, apparently it works on the release version too.
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