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No, it's just a bizarro question. I've been using it since 2003, and it's stabler than ever, while doing more for the user than ever (new fs, virtualization support, Handover, Continuity, and tons of other stuff besides).
I never got any of that stuff to work reliably before I moved off the Mac completely. It would sometimes work and often not work. Often enough that I wrote both of those features off as simple keynote gimmicks.
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Just in case you ever consider it for some reason, under no circumstances should you upgrade to Catalina. Worst OS I’ve used since I left windows nearly 20 years ago.
Reasons being? Because I didn't have a single issue with Catalina. People consider their anecdotal experiences as universal (I offer mine as a single counter example to the parent's experience), when it could be all kinds of weird factors in their case (a faulty hardware run, some incompatible peripherals, user errors attributed to the OS, application errors attributed to the OS and so on).
I recently switched to macOS after using Linux pretty much exclusively for personal use over the last 5 years. (2020 MacBook Air) For me the most infuriating thing is that Apple completely hides what is actually going on from the user. Want to manually scale your display to an exact resolution? Go to Displays, Hold down the option key and then click on the text next to a radio button. WTF!!! Who designed this, this i…
It's not really as easy as: macOS is better or Linux is better. Both suck in their own little ways, not as much at Windows, which still manage to cramp up my hand for some reason. Linux has an amazing level of freedom and flexibility, macOS still have the faster and more responsive GUI. The main reason for me to buy into the Apple ecosystem is still Apple trackpads, both those on the laptops and the external Magic Tr…
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I clearly remember the upgrade to Yosemite, and how it crippled Spotlight for anyone who (1) didn't have a SSD (2) did an OS upgrade, not a clean reinstall. Ask around the Apple forums, you'll only get a lot of Apple apologists and fanboys telling you to turn it off and on again, not a peep (and certainly no fix) from Apple. Or a better example of the general sentiment that I think OP is going for, Apple stopped upda…
> I clearly remember the upgrade to Yosemite, and how it crippled Spotlight for anyone who (1) didn't have a SSD (2) did an OS upgrade, not a clean reinstall. I clearly don't remember that case. How was it anything that couldn't be solved by, e.g., at worse removing the spotlight index folder (.v100 or something similar)? >* Or a better example of the general sentiment that I think OP is going for, Apple stopped upda…
You say you don't care but there are lots of users that get left out in the cold by such 'upgrades', yourself included. "We don't give an f about you or your workflow or your programs, git gud" is an incredibly hostile attitude, and why there is a fair amount of Apple hatred right now.
Not to mention the clearly lackluster if not abysmal recent record of Apple designing systems that work should make you tremble to be their guinea pigs...
Apple has come a loong way from its reputation of producing dream machines with the durability of titanium cockroaches...and not in a good way.
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Unless you're on a device that can only be upgraded to 10.13, after which it won't get security updates anymore after 11 is released. Meanwhile, I can still put W10 on 10-12 year old PCs and it'll run fine (if the hardware wasn't particularly terrible even for back then). It might not support some of the latest features, but it works and you're not subject to some arbitrary decision by Microsoft as to whether you're…
My early-2013 (7.5 years old now) will be getting Big Sur and 3-4 years support after that. And it still works like new - something that I’ve never heard about a similarly aged Win19 device unless it was very recently reinstalled. You’re likely to have problems finding drivers for your other hardware, though - especially 10-year old printers or scanners (even though they are likely to work out of the box on Modern Ma…
And you'd be surprised what kind of old hardware still works on W10.
> Apple has long taken pride that “it just works”, but seems to have convinced itself that is inviolate fact This. Apple's inability to admit fault coupled with decreasing software stability makes life difficult in many ways. For instance, aside from the obvious detrimental effects of OS bugs, it's often quite difficult to find specific solutions without a specific error message. "$APP silently fails" or "Why is my f…
> Apple's inability to admit fault Like? Because Apple admits fault all the time. E.g.: 1) with the updated Mac Pro design and extended apologies for the old Pro format. 2) with the revised keyboard in the new Macbook Pros. 3) Changing from "skeuomorphic" (bad term, but I'll use it) UI to a flater look and tons of other instances...
If they had been fixed in 30 days then maybe you could argue they were good examples.
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"... of the data in iCloud is not end-to-end encrypted, giving Apple (and the FBI and US military intelligence by extension) full access to a lot of your data, such as photos or notes. I don’t use iCloud at all for this reason..." Is all of this true? Apple claim it is not accessible.
No, they do not. They claim it is encrypted, but nowhere do they claim those types of files are end-to-end encrypted. Some iCloud data is e2e (keychain, health) but not most of it. Critically, device backups , containing all of your chat history for all time , are not e2e. Cryptographically, you would not be incorrect in describing this as a backdoor in iMessage’s end to end encryption. It’s encrypted in transit with…
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My early-2013 (7.5 years old now) will be getting Big Sur and 3-4 years support after that. And it still works like new - something that I’ve never heard about a similarly aged Win19 device unless it was very recently reinstalled. You’re likely to have problems finding drivers for your other hardware, though - especially 10-year old printers or scanners (even though they are likely to work out of the box on Modern Ma…
Currently working part-time as a PC technician. Recently had a 10 year old PC here that had to be upgraded to W10. Did Microsoft complain? Nope. I replaced the HDD with an SSD and it ran fine. I've done this with 10 year old laptops too. I simply prefer a platform that doesn't decide for me whether I'm allowed to install it or not. And any device that runs fine on W10 now will most likely run it fine in the future to…
I’ve tried to help family who were tricked into a win10 upgrade by the dark patterns of the “free upgrade to win 10” window. Some had to buy new printers/scanners because win 10 didn’t support their perfectly-working in XP and win7 ones. (My modern Linux Laptop had no such problems). Also a WinModem of some sort used as a built in fax machine.
As a Linux person, I find it funny that you refer to Windows as “platform that allows me to install or not”. It allows you to install but as of Win10, unless you are on Enterprise or LTSB, it doesn’t let you not install. It’s no longer your machine - you paid for it, but it’s Microsoft’s to manage/brick as they see fit.
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It's not really as easy as: macOS is better or Linux is better. Both suck in their own little ways, not as much at Windows, which still manage to cramp up my hand for some reason. Linux has an amazing level of freedom and flexibility, macOS still have the faster and more responsive GUI. The main reason for me to buy into the Apple ecosystem is still Apple trackpads, both those on the laptops and the external Magic Tr…
I really have been appreciating this Logitech MX vertical mouse. Find it more comfortable than using a trackpad all day - https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/mx-vertical-ergonomic...
WSL2 on windows is really nice. I do all my dev on a surface book laptop running windows. WSL2 has me covered for anything that needs posix, but that's increasingly rare. Edit: my deploy target is Ubuntu.
Is systemd/systemctl still broken on WSL2? How do you deploy on Ubuntu, when the service control layer is incompatible between Ubuntu and WSL2?
This individual clearly develops and builds with WSL2 and ships to to Ubuntu VMs or as Ubuntu based containers to some orchestration engine.