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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 AnIdiotOnTheNet »

Annatar wrote: post #654
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #430

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> Actually there are no words which can describe my hate of GNU and Linux Fair enough, I read your comment as supportive of this way of doing things, and therefore Linux in general.

I am supportive of delivering software through OS packages, and from the experience of working with computers for the past 35+ years, I'm absolutely convinced that the only way to correctly deliver software is through native operating system packages, on any platform.

I would agree with this statement only under the condition that said "native OS package" is a single file or folder that can simply be copied and placed anywhere the user wants it.

Otherwise, whatever the OS wants is very low on my list of things I give a damn about. The computer should serve the user, not the other way around.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by tekknik »

nickflood wrote: post #402
mikestew wrote: post #357

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Windows 10 works marginally better. Both remain vastly inferior to MacOs. That's where I'm stuck. We're all-in at our house on Apple stuff. I'm no Windows hater per se, hell, I used to work at Microsoft and my wife still does. And there was a time that I'd say about Mac OS: "this is what an operating system should be". Oh, you most certainly disagree, but bear with me. I don't say that anymore. Too much half-assed sh…

If you'll decide to go with pre-2016 MacBook, find a Louis Rossmann video about what mac to buy. He repairs MacBooks for a long time and thus has a good idea about which model will serve you the longest. As I recall, his recommendation was to go with some 2014 model instead of 2015 because of some faults 2015s had. Of course, you'll need to weigh it against the performance differences between the two.

the problem with this is that he repairs laptops from people who don’t know how to take care of them so the problems he’s repairing will likely never be a problem for someone here. i’ve never once had any of the problems in any of his videos (or even a problem at all). he sure talks shit about apple like they’re all junk though.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by tekknik »

lostmsu wrote: post #270
darrmit wrote: post #195

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I came here to say the same. I do have more issues with macOS than I did, say, 5 years ago. However, the constant Windows update cycle is a nightmare and Linux still can't seem to get battery life and things like Bluetooth (audio inputs, etc.) quite right, so I'm left with hoping that Apple gets their stuff back together. Operating system stability just seems to have declined in general in the last 3-5 years.

Can you elaborate on what do you mean by Windows update cycle? I have a Mac Mini, that I rarely touch to check a new release of something on Mac, and practically every time I have to use it, an update is pending. Not sure how this is worse, than Windows.

it depends on the frequency of use of the mac. i’m in the same boat, just reversed (rarely touch my gaming windows pc but use my mac daily) and every time i boot the windows machine there is an update. most of the time windows needs a reboot as well. so imo the issue is the frequency of windows updates is higher, and has a higher chance of needing a reboot after the update.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by tekknik »

lostmsu wrote: post #350
airstrike wrote: post #320

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With Windows it feels the same way, except a lot of what Windows Update does runs silently in the background, sometimes during your most precious computing hours with no way to stop it except force quitting through the Task Manager. And half the time the updates fail. And when you quickly want to shut down sometimes Windows also forces an update...

There is the active hours setting, and I have not seen an update fail in quite a long time (several years).

last i checked microsoft still doesn’t have scheduled boot times (granted this would likely be a bios setting on windows boxes) so i’d have to leave my PC on overnight to run the updates. it’s a bandaid, not a fix for the update problem.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by tekknik »

ufmace wrote: post #605
dkonofalski wrote: post #423

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>Took me a while to figure out how to remove the apps I never intend to use It took you a while to figure out how to drag an app to the trash in the same way that deleting any other file works? =/

It's not clear that dragging an app to the trash is the "official" way to remove an app, and will remove all associated data, including whatever links it to the App Store, and causes the store to not attempt to "repair" the app by downloading it again or something. It does seem that the "official" way to remove some App Store apps is to long-press on them in the Launchpad, and then click the "X" button that appears.…

it’s not clear because your thinking in the windows / linux world where you need to run the uninstalled or remove the package respectively. if you think about it, if you want to delete something what do you do? so i disagree, it makes perfect sense.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by tekknik »

_coveredInBees wrote: post #474
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I use both Windows and Mac. I find Windows file management and window management to be much better. Love the preview you get when you hover over an app icon in the taskbar. Also love how windows don't automatically take up the entire screen. I like to have two windows open simultaneously. This is much smoother on Windows than Mac. I also prefer Windows' taskbar instead of Mac's dock. The negative is changing preferen…

I feel exactly the same way as you. It boggles my mind that Finder is the best OSX has to offer for file management after all these decades. I find windows explorer to be far superior and more intuitive in almost all cases. What really boggles my mind is how difficult it is to simply get a text string for the current path in Finder - https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/252171/mac-finder-... I absolutely love th…

right clicking with option held is difficult? you’re not a mac user so maybe you didn’t realize this but the option key is used to modify many things (like promptless shutdown/restart/trash empty). click open a menu and press option and you’ll seem some menus entirely change.

Also Finder absolutely does support showing the path, and right clicking on any node gives you the option to copy the path as a string.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by tekknik »

bluedino wrote: post #364
puranjay wrote: post #322

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I use both Windows and Mac. I find Windows file management and window management to be much better. Love the preview you get when you hover over an app icon in the taskbar. Also love how windows don't automatically take up the entire screen. I like to have two windows open simultaneously. This is much smoother on Windows than Mac. I also prefer Windows' taskbar instead of Mac's dock. The negative is changing preferen…

Love the preview you get when you hover over an app icon in the taskbar. I'm not sure why Apple hasn't added this as a native feature. Hyperdock has had it for years. I even wrote my own little proof-of-concept version of it: https://github.com/robilic/DockHand

Press Ctrl-^ ? it doesn’t give you a single pop up but chances are when you do this you’re looking for a specific window and having them all visible saves time.

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by tekknik »

spiralx wrote: post #358
mschaef wrote: post #306

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> What parts of Windows do you prefer over MacOS? I grew up using Windows (since Windows/386) and switched to OSX about ten years ago. For whatever it's worth, I still can't get used to window management or keyboard shortcuts on the Mac. (The Windows key turned into a really nice addition to an already well thought out set of Windows/CUA bindings, while OSX is still caught between its MacOS <10 and NeXTStep heritages…

The one time I had to use MacOS I managed to get something tolerable after spending a lot of time in Karabiner, but the keyboard controls were just incomplete and inconsistent and there wasn't any way around it. Let's not even get into Finder and how awful it is in so many ways.

”Let's not even get into Finder and how awful it is in so many ways.“

Yea, let’s. Given that you’re talking about Karabiner to swap cmd keys you’re talking about an old version of macOS. So what specifically is bad about Finder? It may not be an issue anymore

Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Post by pnutjam »

llimllib wrote: post #240
nkoren wrote: post #190

Meh. I bailed out of the Mac ecosystem last year, as my mid-2012 retina Macbook was finally getting too creaky, and the latest Mac hardware was a regression in many respects, while simultaneously utterly unaffordable. I'm now dual-booting Ubuntu/Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 15". What this experience has taught me is that computing in 2019 basically sucks. The problems with 2000-era Linux, as described in the article, are…

I was linux-only from 2002 to about 2009, on laptops, when I switched to Mac. I just set up a linux desktop for kicks the last couple of weeks, and it doesn't seem to me to be any better than it was a decade ago. * No way to adjust mouse scroll speed; official answer seems to be "don't want that". (Or install imwheel and change your mouse scroll to be equal to hitting the down button (!) which breaks other stuff) * T…

KDE let's me do all this stuff, on OpenSuse. Zypper is also way ahead of apt.
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