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Re: macOS in Svelte

#11

Post by Klonoar »

grawprog wrote: post #10

Gotta be honest, the last mac I ever used ran OS8 I think, maybe 9, it was one of the classic Mac os's either way. I know this is just a UI recreation and not the actual OS but as a long time KDE user, like over a decade, I can't help but think meh, why does this UI get so much praise? I can make my desktop look, act and behave literally any way I want, I can modify every single aspect of every single thing on my des…

>Why do people pay the premium for this?

Because...

>I can make my desktop act and behave literally any way I want, I can modify every single aspect of every single thing on my desktop to suit my work flows and everything I do on a computer exactly so my computer does exactly what I want, when I want, exactly how I want it to in the exact way I want things to be done. I haven't changed much over the years, i've copied my configs through every update, even brand new computers and everything always just works how I want it to.

Most people don't want to deal with this^.

Re: macOS in Svelte

#12

Post by rapsey »

grawprog wrote: post #10

Gotta be honest, the last mac I ever used ran OS8 I think, maybe 9, it was one of the classic Mac os's either way. I know this is just a UI recreation and not the actual OS but as a long time KDE user, like over a decade, I can't help but think meh, why does this UI get so much praise? I can make my desktop look, act and behave literally any way I want, I can modify every single aspect of every single thing on my des…

Because I have zero interest in tweaking and messing with it. I want sane defaults, consistent keyboard shortcuts and when I plug something in I want it to just work.

Re: macOS in Svelte

#13

Post by giansegato »

FractalHQ wrote: post #5
viztor wrote: post #4

It's a copycat of another's work in a different framework. Please do proper attribution.

This is actually the same author of the famous MacOS in React. He’s a legend, and has been very active in the Svelte community / discord lately!

Where can I find the Svelte discord you're mentioning?

Re: macOS in Svelte

#14

Post by grawprog »

Klonoar wrote: post #11
grawprog wrote: post #10

Gotta be honest, the last mac I ever used ran OS8 I think, maybe 9, it was one of the classic Mac os's either way. I know this is just a UI recreation and not the actual OS but as a long time KDE user, like over a decade, I can't help but think meh, why does this UI get so much praise? I can make my desktop look, act and behave literally any way I want, I can modify every single aspect of every single thing on my des…

>Why do people pay the premium for this? Because... >I can make my desktop act and behave literally any way I want, I can modify every single aspect of every single thing on my desktop to suit my work flows and everything I do on a computer exactly so my computer does exactly what I want, when I want, exactly how I want it to in the exact way I want things to be done. I haven't changed much over the years, i've copie…

Deal with what? I selected some click and point options from a very clear and easy to read menu, downloaded some themes from a nice shiny, easy to use theme downloader, it took me all of a half hour to an hour or so to set things up about a decade ago and I have had to do a minimal amount of work since.

Little tweaks,improvements here and there as I find better ways of doing things but otherwise, it was not much work at all.

Install from a live CD...actual CD originally, USB these days, go to the options menu that has all the things, click some buttons and menus, drag some widgets around, browse through the shiny WM themes, download, install, done.

If you can use a computer to do basic tasks, it's really not hard. If you can't navigate some menus that have confusing titles like, desktop settings and themes and display options and widgets and you can't click and drag things around, whatever OS you use will be a struggle.

Re: macOS in Svelte

#16

Post by theranger »

grawprog wrote: post #10

Gotta be honest, the last mac I ever used ran OS8 I think, maybe 9, it was one of the classic Mac os's either way. I know this is just a UI recreation and not the actual OS but as a long time KDE user, like over a decade, I can't help but think meh, why does this UI get so much praise? I can make my desktop look, act and behave literally any way I want, I can modify every single aspect of every single thing on my des…

Because I consider my time more valuable than the cost of the ecosystem. I have no interest to tweak anything, I use the computer to earn my paycheck and constant tinkering and tweaking is not part of it. Open source and free software is free only if you do not value your time enough.

Re: macOS in Svelte

#17

Post by Razengan »

grawprog wrote: post #10

Gotta be honest, the last mac I ever used ran OS8 I think, maybe 9, it was one of the classic Mac os's either way. I know this is just a UI recreation and not the actual OS but as a long time KDE user, like over a decade, I can't help but think meh, why does this UI get so much praise? I can make my desktop look, act and behave literally any way I want, I can modify every single aspect of every single thing on my des…

> Why do people pay the premium for this UI Apple forces you to use?

Because we like it. Why does that make you so upset?

You could have spent the 10 minutes you spent typing that rant out in being productive with whatever you have instead of raging about my purchases with my money.

Re: macOS in Svelte

#18

Post by Operyl »

grawprog wrote: post #14
Klonoar wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Why do people pay the premium for this? Because... >I can make my desktop act and behave literally any way I want, I can modify every single aspect of every single thing on my desktop to suit my work flows and everything I do on a computer exactly so my computer does exactly what I want, when I want, exactly how I want it to in the exact way I want things to be done. I haven't changed much over the years, i've copie…

Deal with what? I selected some click and point options from a very clear and easy to read menu, downloaded some themes from a nice shiny, easy to use theme downloader, it took me all of a half hour to an hour or so to set things up about a decade ago and I have had to do a minimal amount of work since. Little tweaks,improvements here and there as I find better ways of doing things but otherwise, it was not much work…

I have a _huge_ problem where if I can endlessly tweak something, I will waste hours doing so. I used to do the same with my Android devices, flashing newer nightly rom builds every night for cyanogen. My macOS/iOS devices "just work" and I have very few gripes with their chosen defaults.

Re: macOS in Svelte

#19

Post by grawprog »

Razengan wrote: post #17
grawprog wrote: post #10

Gotta be honest, the last mac I ever used ran OS8 I think, maybe 9, it was one of the classic Mac os's either way. I know this is just a UI recreation and not the actual OS but as a long time KDE user, like over a decade, I can't help but think meh, why does this UI get so much praise? I can make my desktop look, act and behave literally any way I want, I can modify every single aspect of every single thing on my des…

> Why do people pay the premium for this UI Apple forces you to use? Because we like it. Why does that make you so upset? You could have spent the 10 minutes you spent typing that rant out in being productive with whatever you have instead of raging about my purchases with my money.

Can you provide some details other then just 'because we like it'?

That's not really explaining things at all. That's just an emotional defensive response with nothing to back it up.

Re: macOS in Svelte

#20

Post by daliusd »

grawprog wrote: post #14
Klonoar wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Why do people pay the premium for this? Because... >I can make my desktop act and behave literally any way I want, I can modify every single aspect of every single thing on my desktop to suit my work flows and everything I do on a computer exactly so my computer does exactly what I want, when I want, exactly how I want it to in the exact way I want things to be done. I haven't changed much over the years, i've copie…

Deal with what? I selected some click and point options from a very clear and easy to read menu, downloaded some themes from a nice shiny, easy to use theme downloader, it took me all of a half hour to an hour or so to set things up about a decade ago and I have had to do a minimal amount of work since. Little tweaks,improvements here and there as I find better ways of doing things but otherwise, it was not much work…

I’m both Mac OS X and Ubuntu user. There was no need to change anything in OSX because there was no need (defaults are good enough) and I use some tweaks on Ubuntu. I understand that this is anecdotal but I guess this is how OSX users feel.
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