Oh boy. I’d like to know Jony Ive’s reaction to Catalina...
Based on Apple's recent history I'm sure Jony Ive would lament how Catalina didn't make the computer 0.1mm thinner.
Broken
21–30 of 571 posts
Re: Broken
#22Can I just say how happy I am with Xfce. It's a Linux desktop environment that looks like in the early 2000s. It's fast. There are no unnecessary frills. It just gets the job done. Its release cycles are measured in several years, and keep it minimal. I used to be on Windows, then macOS, then Ubuntu and now this. As a developer with soon to be 20 years of experience, it's the best environment I've had.
Re: Broken
#23See also the discussions on “Everything’s broken And nobody’s upset” from 7 years ago, about Microsoft, by Scott Hanselman focusing quite heavily on sync problems
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4531549
It does seem to me that everything I use IT wise is more “always a bit broken” now, than it ever used to be.
Re: Broken
#24I'm not sure if anyone has seen this yet, but Catalina is letting me login without entering my password!
I have two users on my machine.
1. I "lock screen" from the Apple menu and close the lid. 2. I reopen the lid and it does not ask for password. 3. I start using laptop and lock screen suddenly pops up, but asks password for the wrong user. 4. I hit random key and the screen goes away, and i can continue working.
Also, it looks like a lot of settings don't work on the lock screen / choose user screen. For instance, the pointer speed doesn't match what I have set, font sizes don't match either, and the resolution looks wrong.
In all... It feels like windows?
Re: Broken
#25I was just in the process of installing Catalina, guess I'll just click on that "Cancel" button now.
Huh, does that work? I didn't realize that one could actually revert mid install. Let us know. (:
Re: Broken
#26[deleted]
Re: Broken
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe it's time to get off Macs for good. At least don't try to use the version of Linux under MacOS as a Linux system. The OP is running cron jobs and Python in the background, and changes in the Apple security environment broke them. If you need to run Linux stuff, put it on a real Linux system.
>> don't try to use the version of Linux under MacOS MacOS is based on Unix not Linux. However, I mostly agree with your sentiment and would extend it to “use the right tool for the job”. Use launchd (although I hear it is on the way out) instead of Cron etc.
It's based on Mach via NeXTStep. Not Unix.
Re: Broken
#28Can I just say how happy I am with Xfce. It's a Linux desktop environment that looks like in the early 2000s. It's fast. There are no unnecessary frills. It just gets the job done. Its release cycles are measured in several years, and keep it minimal. I used to be on Windows, then macOS, then Ubuntu and now this. As a developer with soon to be 20 years of experience, it's the best environment I've had.
I feel the same way about i3 and not too far over the 20 year mark myself :)
Re: Broken
#29[deleted]
How is this related to a post talking about a(nother) buggy macOS release?
Re: Broken
#30Can I just say how happy I am with Xfce. It's a Linux desktop environment that looks like in the early 2000s. It's fast. There are no unnecessary frills. It just gets the job done. Its release cycles are measured in several years, and keep it minimal. I used to be on Windows, then macOS, then Ubuntu and now this. As a developer with soon to be 20 years of experience, it's the best environment I've had.
So was I until I switch to a 4k monitor and realize that there's no real, stable, functional fractional scaling on Linux, even less so on XFCE, unfortunately.