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Re: Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux

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Post by jlarocco »

riprowan wrote: post #111
Brakenshire wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suppose it's useful when almost everything works, but that one thing that you absolutely need isn't otherwise available.

This is my problem. Audio editing on Linux is a joke. For everything else I do, Linux can get me there. So I need a Mac or a PC as an audio editor? Might as well just get a Mac or a PC. I'll have to maintain it anyway, and it can do everything Linux can do, plus probably be better supported.

It's the same with RAW image conversion software used for photography. I'd dump OSX on my MBP and never look back if Capture One or DxO Optics ran on Linux.

The open source alternatives are no where near as fast, they lag far behind supporting new cameras, their interfaces are ugly and difficult to use, etc.

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Post by geowwy »

criddell wrote: post #166
StudyAnimal wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "professional" market doesn't care about visual cohesion. They either use just one app anyway or have them custom written to use their nvidia quadros with whatever UI they like, But the senior execs that need the absolute monster for outlook and facebook will always be well served by the top end macs.

> The "professional" market doesn't care about visual cohesion. That isn't true at all. I spend all day in a handful of applications and good aesthetics make my day much more enjoyable.

But it's even more important than that.

People find it easier to use apps that have a familiar look and feel. That means less training, less troubleshooting, lower operating costs.

Re: Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux

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Post by jlarocco »

kevinherron wrote: post #8

This is neat, but I can't think of a single non-GUI tool on OS X that I need or doesn't have an equivalent in Linux...

I was thinking the same thing. Nobody uses OS X for the command line tooling. I think in most cases the Linux "equivalent" is usually better.

It's a good first step, though. It'll be interesting to see how well they can get GUI applications running.

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Post by RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u »

wahern wrote: post #151
Sanddancer wrote: post #91

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OS X is posix-compliant. It doesn't implement certain GNUisms but depending on any vendor-specific problems is going to be a pain point.

OS X is UNIX 03 certified. That's a formalism. 1) That's a nearly 15-year-old standard (03 == 2003). Windows was certified to the predecessor POSIX standard. 2) While certified, it's compliance in actuality is poor. macOS's certified status says more about flaws in the certification test suite and administrative process, and the OpenGroup's need for income, than it does about macOS. The manual page for pselect, for e…

> [...] The manual page for pselect, for example, even admits that it's not compliant!

Where does it say that? I'm running 10.12.1, and the man page for pselect(2) looks like the one from FreeBSD. I could believe that pselect doesn't actually behave as documented, having run into my share of macOS bugs.

> [...] Porting stuff to macOS is about as painful as porting to Solaris or AIX, which is to say not very painful [...] The biggest headaches with macOS are the bugs.

Agreed, though AFAIK all commercial UNIXes are buggy in one way or another, and I don't know if macOS is worse in comparison. Autoconf exists for a reason, even though few if any really like it.

Re: Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux

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Post by ronyeh »

nodesocket wrote: post #223

I don't think the virtual esc key is going to be an issue. The placement actually seems more convenient than the current esc key location. I am going to miss a regular USB port and MagSafe.

Maybe this might work as a replacement for MagSafe?

https://www.amazon.com/Griffin-BreakSafe-Breakaway-Chromeboo...

I haven't tried it myself, so it probably does not feel as fast and fluid as MagSafe.

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