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Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by dotancohen »

mrbuttons454 wrote: post #59

I have been a Mac user since the classic mac days. I waited in line for the first iPhone. macOS/iOS 26 are bad enough that I've begun switching to Linux. I preordered a Clicks Communicator and Pebble Round 2. Switching from a Macbook Pro M4 to an Asus ROG Flow Z13 with Debian. macOS 26.3 updated clang and broke my emscripten workflow. I tried to unrar a file but the version of unrar provided in homebrew is deprecated…

  > Clicks Communicator
Thank you for introducing me to this! If the keyboard is suitable for Hebrew input I will pursue this. I've tried all manner of external and on screen keyboards, but this looks like it might be a winner.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by throwaway762423 »

“For at least 10 years, every Time Machine set up I have been in charge of, or tasked with maintaining for someone else, has eventually run into an issue where it stops backing up successfully.”

Is this with or without feedback that backing up wasn’t successful?

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by dotancohen »

hedora wrote: post #131
ElijahLynn wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gonna say that the switch from X11 to Wayland that was pretty much forced this year across many distributions, broke a ton of things too (screenshot programs, keyboard shortcuts), however, all the code is open source, and there are workarounds and source code available but it still sucks. Basic keyboard shortcuts are still broke with the Wayland migration. e.g. Copyq has this janky workaround for a shortcut to regist…

I do all my gaming and LLM inference on devuan. (That laptop should chew through 30-120B parameter LLMs, depending on how much RAM it has.) I don't have any of the problems mentioned by you or sibling comments, full stop. Up until about a year ago, audio was janky as hell, but then as part of the great de-Poettering, they switched from PulseAudio to PipeWire. I've had zero issues since then. Copy paste works. Login w…

  > the great de-Poettering
If I remember correctly, Devuan uses sysv, yes? Other than Pulse Audio, what other Poettering software is in normal Debian?

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by itopaloglu83 »

giobox wrote: post #2

I genuinely view Time Machine as abandonware at this stage, Apple haven't really invested in it for many years and I would recommend a lot of other third party backup solutions first.

I think they think of time capsule as a done deal. It doesn’t bring any extra money for them, and even though it’s broken, it exist to a point that when they’re selling a Mac they can say that it comes with a backup software as well. Just like a shady landlord tells you that the apartment facing a wall has a nice window.

I don’t know what these engineers are doing at Apple, but it surely isn’t making the ecosystem better, they’re just chasing hypes and shinny useless UI changes.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by shepherdjerred »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #5

I've been running Tahoe since 26.2, after cowardly skipping 0 and 1. And... it's fine? Am I only using the happy path? Or are people just particularly confident about complaining about Tahoe after seeing everyone else do it. For sure it has glitches, but as far as I can tell, they're the same glitches that were in Sequoia. (If anyone at Apple is reading this, can you take a glance at your NFS client code? It does lik…

It has gotten a lot better since the betas/launch. The beta was _really_ bad.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by actionfromafar »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #129
chipotle_coyote wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I understand that, I can't help but compare this to Mac hardware rather than software. There was a years-long stretch when it seemed like they'd really seriously lost the plot: the butterfly keyboard, the Touch Bar, the "trashcan" Mac, heat issues across the line. There was a real case to be made for abandoning Macs based on hardware issues alone (and I'm sure some folks did, and hopefully they're happy for it)…

It's a good point. I hated that butterfly keyboard, and the Touch Bar was an utterly useless gimmick for me. And they realised that and rolled it back (and added ports again!). They do eventually listen to their customers. Let's hope it doesn't take as long for these changes to get rolled back. I'm kinda stuck with Mac at work. I don't mind it, but I run Linux on all my personal computers and find that is way better.

I wonder how much connect there is between those in charge of hardware and those in charge of working software. It would be one thing if the software had a design direction, we all hated it, but it was implemented to its logical conclusion and pure stupid bugs weren't left to linger for years. That would be a matter of difference in taste and vision.

But I wonder if they have the ability to execute... anything, anymore. It's starting to look a little like Windows, which in a totally shameless and burlesque fashion has 3 or 4 design paradigms at the same time, jumbled together in a big stew.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by bc569a80a344f9c »

fragmede wrote: post #134
marcus_holmes wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And Linux ? Good luck getting decent hardware that will run without having basic functionality issues. I think that's probably a few years out of date. Certainly, it used to be completely true and was a major problem. I'm just not finding that now. Drivers are better, and more widespread, and there are less odd hardware innovations in standard PC components that screw it up. And, if you want a laptop that runs Linu…

Get serious, none of them have a working fingerprint reader.

I prefer my MacBook, but the Thinkpad whatever I bought to have Windows and Linux available for some software I need occasionally has a fingerprint reader that worked out of the box on Ubuntu.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by thomk »

mrbuttons454 wrote: post #59

I have been a Mac user since the classic mac days. I waited in line for the first iPhone. macOS/iOS 26 are bad enough that I've begun switching to Linux. I preordered a Clicks Communicator and Pebble Round 2. Switching from a Macbook Pro M4 to an Asus ROG Flow Z13 with Debian. macOS 26.3 updated clang and broke my emscripten workflow. I tried to unrar a file but the version of unrar provided in homebrew is deprecated…

How did you solve the Minecraft issue?

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by hedgehog »

fragmede wrote: post #134
marcus_holmes wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And Linux ? Good luck getting decent hardware that will run without having basic functionality issues. I think that's probably a few years out of date. Certainly, it used to be completely true and was a major problem. I'm just not finding that now. Drivers are better, and more widespread, and there are less odd hardware innovations in standard PC components that screw it up. And, if you want a laptop that runs Linu…

Get serious, none of them have a working fingerprint reader.

My Thinkpad's fingerprint reader worked out of the box.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by wilkystyle »

sivers wrote: post #75
mrbuttons454 wrote: post #59

I have been a Mac user since the classic mac days. I waited in line for the first iPhone. macOS/iOS 26 are bad enough that I've begun switching to Linux. I preordered a Clicks Communicator and Pebble Round 2. Switching from a Macbook Pro M4 to an Asus ROG Flow Z13 with Debian. macOS 26.3 updated clang and broke my emscripten workflow. I tried to unrar a file but the version of unrar provided in homebrew is deprecated…

“I don't feel like we own them.” ← Well-put! I was 100% Apple: Mac Mini on the desktop, Macbook Air laptop, iPhone, and two iPads. Then came Tahoe. I hated it so badly and it wouldn't let me change the things I hated. I noticed a subtle sneer as I worked, having to use this stupid computer that wouldn't let me adjust it to my liking anymore. Then I noticed I wasn't working as much as I used to because I just visceral…

I am currently all-in on the Apple ecosystem and have been for almost 13 years now. But quality of life in Apple land has steadily been getting worse, so I have been considering making the sort of change you describe, but not quite ready to make that leap yet. What would you say was the hardest part of the transition for you?
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