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Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
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Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
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> I don't think I've touched the preferences "app" since I initially setup my mac studio. The moaning and groaning about how bad it is just seems so.....pointless to me. Have you considered that other people have usage requirements different from yours? Of course there's not much reason to complain about System Settings if you never use it, but that's missing the point.
His usage requirements is using it only once when he sets up his computer, which is probably a good thing for a preferences app. It works well for him, why shouldn't be able to say so? So we can keep this thread strictly about complaining? You could copy paste your comment to everyone here, "have you considered that other people use it differently".
> It works well for him, why shouldn't be able to say so?
That's not all the commenter said. "The moaning and groaning about how bad it is just seems so.....pointless to me."
If System Settings is fine for the commenter, that's great for the commenter. (Although "I virtually never use it" isn't exactly a great response to "It's virtually unusable" or a great defense of System Settings.) However, the commenter is criticizing other people for complaining about it, and that's not justified.
Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
* People complain about system preferences but I use spotlight to find settings when I need them* This is exactly how I do it, and I also do it this way in Ubuntu. And in both OSes, I hide docks/apps.
Ubuntu has spotlight?
I'm sure you already know it doesn't contain spotlight itself, which belongs to Apple.
There exist equivalents that have exactly that same functionality as described above. I don't know what GNOME uses, but KDE's krunner searches system settings, user files and applications, bookmarks, browser tabs, solves arithmetic and unit conversions, does spell checking, searches the web, searches active windows, applications and workspaces, etc.. It's configurable with many plugins available. I expect GNOME's system works similarly.
Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
#194"8GB ought to be enough for anybody" , I guess? Also, he said "Raspbian", rather than the "Raspberry Linux" in the title...which I don't think is a thing.
Raspbian and Raspberry Linux both refer to Raspberry Pi OS, which was renamed from Raspbian. [1] [1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Raspbian [1] is the name of the original community project to port Debian to armhf (armv6 hard float) which ran on the Raspberry Pi 1.
Raspberry Pi put our their own images based on this, and called it Raspbian until about 2020 [2] when they started calling it "Raspberry Pi OS" after they started producing aarch64 images.
[2] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-...
Further reading:
[4] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-no-longer-...
Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
#195As a lazy developer I also dislike what’s slowly happening to macOS. Apple wants you to switch to sandboxed apps but they don't provide a way for you to do even half the things a traditional app can (because they can’t imagine them all up front). That’s just frustrating and lazy on their part and makes the developer UX shitty. But, as an end user, what Apple is doing (bringing sandboxed apps and better security to th…
Developers vs. users is a false dichotomy. Users need software. Without software, there's nothing to use. The native Mac software ecosystem is slowly dying. Eventually everything on the Mac will just be a cross-platform afterthought.
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Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
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I get irrationally angry when people imply that Mac and Linux are somehow similar, or interchangeable. They are not! Not even close! I think this is where a lot of the negative opinion of Linux comes from, people lament some issue they have with their Mac and someone else will say, "oh you should try Linux, it's really good now." And so they do and are surprised to find that experience is vastly different. Linux is a…
I disagree that it’s a trade-off. Linux could match Apple’s out of the box battery performance. It’s just that nobody seems to care about Linux’s “out of the box” default configuration because, well, the user can futz with it! Things are slowly getting better though. But we still don’t have that distribution where things are already futzed for you and everything runs as well as it can.
> It’s just that nobody seems to care about Linux’s “out of the box” default configuration
The only possible way this would work OOB is if the OEM or the community maintained OOB settings for each hardware variant.
Heck, I was recently shopping PC laptops and would see variations in CPU OEMs (AMD vs Intel) for the same model.
Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
#197I’ve given strong thought to switching away from macOS. I too have been a Max user all my life, a Macintosh Plus being the first computer in our house. I would get fed up at Apple’s hardware choices or its limitations on users. I have had a dozen Linux computers with various systems on them. I don’t know if it’s because they were Dell machines, or if it’s an Ubuntu thing, but I have had almost every single one turn i…
My experience is that what holds Linux back is NVidia. Their proprietary drivers work great when you first install them, but inevitably break on update bringing you to a text mode emergency command line. When I made the switch to Linux in 2018 I made the conscious decision to avoid Nvidia hardware and it has worked out really well.
Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
#198Well good for him. But we have to let go of this notion that for GNU/Linux to win, Apple has to lose. I'm paraphrasing but can't shake that feeling when I hear those claps in the video. When are we ever going to grow up?
Note: this was at a linux conference.
Hehe, yeah. I saw Stallman in Gothenburg 2007 and even bought his book Free Software, Free Society. It was memorable, getting flashbacks now from him eating toe jam/callous skin from his foot.
Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
#199I feel the swing of the pendulum here. I own mostly but Apple gear right now but I’m being pulled back towards more open and extensible hardware and software. The GPU is a big one. Nvidia hardware unlocks a lot of gaming, graphics, video and machine learning stuff. Open vs closed is another one. Android development unlocks so much more hardware and software and peripheral and protocol support. For the first time in a…
Jeez, if nvidia hardware is "open and extensible" by your standards, they must have been really lowered by Apple's shenanigans.
If I'm not mistaken, Apple was the one that blacklisted Nvidia hardware, not the other way around. You can still download bog-standard UNIX drivers for Nvidia hardware, Apple just won't let you install them.
Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Developers vs. users is a false dichotomy. Users need software. Without software, there's nothing to use. The native Mac software ecosystem is slowly dying. Eventually everything on the Mac will just be a cross-platform afterthought.
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> only in your little dreams
Please don't violate the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> 21.5% of developers used macOS in 2015,[1] increasing to 27.5% in 2020.
I said the native Mac software ecosystem is slowly dying, and eventually everything on the Mac will just be a cross-platform afterthought. The total number of registered Apple developers (not Mac specifically) isn't really relevant to that. Every iOS developer has to use macOS in order to access Xcode, but that doesn't mean they're making native Mac software.