I warned about this back in the day, when iOSification was on the horizon. The trouble started after Steve Jobs died. Yes, iOS before him had problems but nothing like what came after. The obsession with "wheeee we can get rid of all skeumorphism" caused Apple to become a follower and not an innovator, and took away focus from things that really mattered.
Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
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Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
#122It's important to notice that he's switching to a desktop running linux. Running linux on laptops is still a gamble. Sometimes things work great. Sometimes you spend months trying to fix basic stuff like screen brightness[1][2] on hardware certified by Ubuntu.[3] I think there's a market for a linux distro that targets a limited set of premium hardware. I'd gladly pay money for an OS that worked out of the box on any…
Yes. Honestly, if all OSX brought to the table was "works seamlessly with laptop hardware" I'd probably still use it - unless there was a Linux distro that did the same.
Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
#123I'm sure this guy is savvy but I think that he gets much more credence due to his last name being Wozniak. Sorry but any post saying "why I did ____" seems to rub me the wrong way. I would have much more respect for a post that outlined issues found and how to reproduce them than a "I'm tired of this so you should be too" kind of post. personally I don't ca if you know or like/dislike what I use to work. If I wanted…
I didn't get a "...so you should be too" vibe from this post, nor from most "why I did ___" posts that I've read.
Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Windows 8 wasn't all that bad. Relative to Windows 7 it was just two steps forward and two steps back. For all the Metro haters: the core workflow to launch applications (winkey + number keys or winkey + search + enter) is still the same as Windows 7. Windows 8.1 improved things a bit by identifying some scenarios where Metro was unnecessary and keeping it out of the way. So relative to Windows 7 it's now two steps f…
If the core workflow was actually the same, then businesses wouldn't have been so loathe to upgrade to it. From what I've witnessed, few people launch their primary applications through text search - they prefer shortcut icons, whether they be in the menu, taskbar, or desktop.
Shortcuts on the desktop and pinned applications on the taskbar remain the same. The new start screen permits shortcuts. All the existing avenues are still wide open.
Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
#125FYI this was not posted by 'the Woz', but rather by the unrelated Geoff Wozniak. I imagine many others may have clicked through owing to the domain.
It would be nice if a moderator would update the title to, "Why Geoff Wozniak Quit OS X."
Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
#126FYI this was not posted by 'the Woz', but rather by the unrelated Geoff Wozniak. I imagine many others may have clicked through owing to the domain.
Part of me thinks this is a bit sleazy. He knows how recognizable the name "Wozniak" is, and doubly so if he's going to be running a tech blog and posting about Aplle related things. Would gregwozniak.ca or gwozniak.ca been that much worse? It would be infinitely less confusing and link-baity.
I don't see why happening to have a famous person with your last name means you can't use your last name for a domain. If a) Ira Remsen was still alive and b) I was a food blogger instead of a tech enthusiast, I wouldn't hesitate to buy remsen.com or remsen.food (if i wanted it) just because Ira happened to invent artificial sweeteners.
Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I've updated the BIOS multiple times. It didn't fix anything.
What version of Ubuntu? If it's 12 then you might need to do what I did for my new PC a year ago to get the latest drivers: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack That fixed the only issue I had which was with the 1 Gig ethernet. Now I'm on stock 14 and of course it has all the newer drivers already.
I've tried 12.04LTS, 13.10, 14.04LTS, and now 14.10. Sometimes upgrading, sometimes from a clean install. The current issues with my ThinkPad are due to bugs in the latest drivers.
Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I definitely clicked and read the entire article only because I thought it was written by Woz. I agree, it is link-baity and misleading. EDIT: Holy down votes. Don't know what to say. I thought it was Woz, sosume. All I did was agree with the less-downvoted parent. EDIT 2: Hive mind crit axotty for 9999.
You thought Woz was Canadian? It's the guys name. Using ones own name cannot be linkbaity or misleading.
It is when your name is identical to the co-Founder's name. It's link-baity by the fact that many people were baited into clicking that link under false pretenses.
I'm not accusing this Wozniak of malice, however.
I didn't look at the TLD I just clicked. I thought Woz was ditching OS X, I got excited. I was baited.
Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
#129FYI this was not posted by 'the Woz', but rather by the unrelated Geoff Wozniak. I imagine many others may have clicked through owing to the domain.
that would be woz.org
Re: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
#130Tiger was the most stable release I've ever used.
I haven't upgraded to 10.10 yet. It just seems like a lot of useless pain. I have no need for any of the "features" they've added.
To be fair to OSX, when you do an "upgrade" in modern "user friendly" linux distros (Ubuntu, for example), you would be smart not to click the "upgrade me to the next release" button. It's usually worse than the experience on OSX in my experience by a large margin.
I agree with the poster on almost everything he said, but I still don't know if the pain is enough for me to justify switching back to linux. The amount of time spent configuring things is just wasted time. I lost the drive to spend countless hours tinkering years ago.
"Turning things off" in OS X usually is a preference pane option. Every now and then you have to do something a bit more elaborate to get the behavior you desire. I'd argue that on Linux, the time spent turning the things you want on and off is far more time consuming.