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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by gonzalohm »

rcarmo wrote: post #125
devilsdata wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fedora atomic distributions in general are great. I recommend Bluefin-dx over Bazzite (they’re both GNOME-based Fedora Atomic from the same group— universal blue) for developers, because it’s really easy to install the packages that Bazzite gives you, and it comes pre-installed with Docker.

I use Bluefin-dx as well, but pointed out Bazzite due to the mention of gaming. It's been rock solid for me for that use case.

Is it comparable to gaming on Windows? Last time I tried the performance wasn't as good for some games (Deadlock) and it took ages to compile shader (it takes 30 seconds on Windows with the same specs)

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by nixpulvis »

Clubber wrote: post #160
nixpulvis wrote: post #133

Apple needs a Snow Apple. Fire Tim, bring in some real change.

Careful what you wish for.

IDK. I'm to the point I kinda would rather they fail and I migrate over to android and continue to use Linux than they keep stagnating.

If the new wave ushers in some real innovation and vision, then it was worth the gamble.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by benn0 »

spudlyo wrote: post #153
StrLght wrote: post #141

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I migrated to Linux about a year ago too. Not the smoothest experience ever (looking at you, ath11k with device-specific quirks) but so far I am delighted. Finally, I don't have to fight my computer to do things I expect it to do. Unfortunately, I still have to deal with macOS for work due to corporate policies.

The main problem I had with living in a Gnome desktop environment, is with the keyboard. I'm not willing to abandon my use of Emacs control+meta sequences for cursor and editing movements everywhere in the GUI. On macOS, this works because the command (super/Win on Linux/Windows) key is used for common shortcuts and the control key is free for editing shortcuts. I spent a day or so hacking around with kanata[0], whic…

Love this, and I'm in the same boat. Is your configuration of kanata public at all?

I know it's mostly muscle memory, but macOS shortcuts just seem sane and consistent and that has been one of the biggest frustrations when trying to switch. I found toshy[0] which does something similar - did you try that? The goal is purely macOS key remappings in Linux, so a much smaller scope than kanata.

[0]: https://toshy.app

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by ummonk »

lelandbatey wrote: post #163
simondotau wrote: post #57

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I understand and appreciate the sentiment, but I see the intent very differently. Apple is not employing a frog boiling strategy, but rather being responsive to an increasingly sophisticated adversary. It’s like criticism of the quality of Google search dropping. It has absolutely tanked, but it’s not because the algorithm is worse, it’s because the internet has grown orders of magnitude and most of it uses the same…

That rationalization ignores a lot of confounding evidence, such as other search engines being able to deliver great results and adequately keep the SEO garbage out.

That’s kinda the SEO equivalent of security by obscurity though, right? SEO spam puts a lot less effort into optimizing for other search engines, whereas Google is dealing with being the primary target of every adversarial SEO spam site.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by miunau »

thewebguyd wrote: post #38
rcarmo wrote: post #10

There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was, but I understand the sentiment. As someone who's been a Mac user since System 6 and has been consistently using Macs alongside PCs _daily_ for over 20 years I can say that Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased. It's just that me and other old-time switchers have stopped complaining about it and…

> Most of the other examples in the article also apply, but to be honest I've been using GNOME in parallel for years now and I consider it to be my "forever desktop" if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon (or, most likely, if I want something that is _just a computer_). I'm there as well. I've been really enjoying desktop Linux lately, but I can't go back to a non-Apple laptop at this point. There's just nothing…

Why not start supporting Asahi financially, if you aren't already?

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by MichaelZuo »

nextos wrote: post #167
rcarmo wrote: post #53

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I have some hope that Framework and AMD can fix some of those issues. Would love to try out their new desktop (because it's a simpler, more tightly integrated thing) and replace my Mac mini -- then wait for Linux power management to improve.

Linux power management is pretty good. The problem is that defaults favor desktop and server performance. On a MacBook Air 11, my custom Linux setup and Mac OS had the same battery autonomy, despite Safari being much more energy efficient. The real problem is that, just like the grandparent post pointed out, Apple's software quality has been declining. The Tiger to Snow Leopard epoch was incredible. Apps were simple,…

What’s the actual argument that will credibly convince the top leaders of Apple, to push fixing MacOS up the list of priorities?

Because right now it’s clearly so far down, beneath dozens of other priorities, that expecting it to just happen one day seems futile.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by prawn »

aresant wrote: post #97

It is literally insane that when I search for Photos on iOS I can't zoom in to make the thumbnails bigger. As an approaching mid-40s person this is untenable, even worse that it DOES let you zoom in prior to search.

The lack of filters in things like Photos or the iCloud version baffles me. Tools that would be effective and far more useful than half of what they add instead.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by CobaltFire »

devilsdata wrote: post #113
rcarmo wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One word: Bazzite.

Fedora atomic distributions in general are great. I recommend Bluefin-dx over Bazzite (they’re both GNOME-based Fedora Atomic from the same group— universal blue) for developers, because it’s really easy to install the packages that Bazzite gives you, and it comes pre-installed with Docker.

I also recommend Bluefin-DX. Been running it for about a year now and love it.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by plorkyeran »

joezydeco wrote: post #138
hkpack wrote: post #64

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I understand that you're doing it on principle, but for a software development team, 99$/year is a really minuscule price to pay to be able to build / notarise / distribute software. Developers pay exorbitant amount of money for much lesser value, and the idea of putting your teammates at risk to stick it to apple is kind of sad bordering with negligence from a business POV.

The tool is built deep in our CI/CD chain. The whole thing is a house of cards built on a massive pile of tinder next to an open drum of kerosene. You want me to integrate XCode into that ? Last time I tried setting up an Apple developer license inside a large corporation, one that they paid for and not tied to me or my credit card, it was also a nightmare. And yes, it's also on principle.

Who said anything about Xcode? The codesign tool is part of macOS, not Xcode. The CLI tool for notarization is bundled with Xcode, but you don't have to use it; they have an official REST API that you can use directly.
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