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Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by brewtide »

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 I think that's probably a few years out of date.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 framework 13 fingerprint scanner worked immediately out of the box.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by tempodox »

Just now I have received mail that the Linux laptop I ordered has been assembled and handed over to shipping. After over 30 years on the Mac Apple has managed to make me look forward to switching to Linux. I never would have thought this day would come, but all things come to an end eventually.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by sgtaylor5 »

I’ve got a M2 MBA and I love it. I can /live/ with Tahoe, would rather have Sequoia or something a little older (but keep the Password app!) I certainly /don’t need/ a touchscreen Mac laptop, which is what Liquid Glass seems to be designed for.

Having said that, I probably would’ve switched to some version of Linux many years ago if it wasn’t for the lack of business accounting software that was easy to set up. GNUcash isn’t it for me. Switching would’ve saved me a lot of money on subscriptions.

I could probably use Obsidian instead of NotePlan with a bit of work; I would just use it on mobile a bit less.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by tempodox »

bitwize wrote: post #163

Absent the Satanists who run California and the nation conducting a dark ritual to summon Steve Jobs back from the abyss, the chances of him saving Apple from total enshittification collapse again the way he did the first time are slim to none. It's peak Apple fan to grouse about how rotten everything is in the Fruit Empire, and then conclude "Welp, nothing to be done for it except smoke hopium that Apple somehow get…

I would so love to contradict you, but I can’t. I have to completely agree.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by tempodox »

chillpenguin wrote: post #125

I'm glad I'm not the only one. What keeps me on mac, however, is the hardware seems so much better than the alternatives. I'd love a macbook quality linux laptop.

Rumors persist that you can in fact put a Linux on a macbook. Just in case you have one lying around (which I don’t).

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by tempodox »

NegativeLatency wrote: post #107

I still have my childhood/family's Macintosh II, been a lifelong fan of Apple (warranted or not doesn't really matter), Tahoe and the rest of the version 26 updates have left such a bad taste in my mouth that I'm considering swtiching to Linux. Not sure what I'll do for a phone, but I'm actively replacing Apple, apps, workflows etc with stuff that will work on Linux to switch if it doesn't get fixed soon.

I’m not waiting any longer. I have exactly zero hope that Apple will fix anything. I even doubt they’re still capable of it, even if they could be bothered to be interested in it.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by ttepasse »

Derbasti wrote: post #213
ordinaryradical wrote: post #6

This is going to be remembered as a comical fumble, in my view. I was fully locked-in to the ecosystem, the phone, the services, the TV, and I am looking for the exits. I’m starting to parallelize to software which will play well on Linux, and when I’m feeling ready (or miserable enough) I will not be looking back. The macOS exodus will be like Hemingway’s line about bankruptcy: very slowly and then all at once.

Off the top of my head: Yesterday, my wife wanted to use Discord. It was right there in the applications folder. But MacOS couldn't find it. Launching it manually took minutes, for some reason. We wanted to download a clip using yt_dlp (a Python program). Terminal told us, this would require dev tools, which it doesn't. So we installed Python from python.org instead, which worked. Except, that non-blessed python coul…

> I live and work in a multi-lingual environment, and have set up a keyboard shortcut to switch between the German and English keyboard. MacOS does not have a keyboard shortcut for this.

MacOS has since the early OS X days the default shortcut CTRL+Space for that. It may be deactivated for newer releases. It's findable under:

Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → Inputsomething

(Einstellungen → Tastatur → Tastaturkurzbefehle → Eingabequellen)

Personally I dream of a Mac keyboard with OLED key caps for multilingual keyboard layouts.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by tempodox »

ryandrake wrote: post #127
benoau wrote: post #68

> Even ignoring bugs and design changes, in which way does it serve users to phase out Rosetta 2, which in a container-heavy world is more or less required for developers due to the ecosystem of ARM64 Linux containers being nowhere near as widespread as for AMD x86-64 ones, and which keeps many applications runnable that otherwise wouldn't be? This is what tells me I'm completely misaligned with Apple's vision of the…

"Preventing users from running the software they want to run" seems like such an anti-feature, yet every major system seems to be moving quickly in this direction. I feel like general purpose computing is going to be on life support, soon.

Cory Doctorow’s “The coming war on general-purpose computing” said it all. In 2012.

https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

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Post by 8bitsrule »

mrbuttons454 wrote: post #83
stockresearcher wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From an outsider just going by what you wrote: you are trading a $2000+ year-old computer for a new $2000+ computer because you are annoyed about some temporary problems (yes, they are temporary). Apple marketers are just going to think that in another year you’re going to get annoyed by some Linux thing (yes, there will be something annoying) and buy a brand new $2000+ Mac. These kind of posts get a lot of upvotes,…

I've been running Debian on servers for 20+ years now. And in the last few years I've been running it on my desktop, sort of a toe in the water. Debian hasn't let me down, and I'm very familiar with it. I was on my way out the door before the Apple Silicon launch. They managed to briefly bring me back in, but the software is only getting worse. It's a shame too, because I do believe Apple has the best hardware.

Interesting. The IIs and early Macs were great hardware. Still, I always liked the software the best ... until they stopped supporting it (e.g. Hypercard).

But the hardware? The very first Mac I actually owned, a iiSi, was designed to suck the air for the fan through the slot for the $400 3.5" floppy. Wonder why it died? (The iivx quietly fixed that with a $1 piece of plastic.) ($400 was worth more 30 years ago... it could buy a dozen non-Apple floppies. When the mouse died I called them to get a replacement switch. 'We don't sell parts,' the support guy told me. 'Besides, it's only an $80 mouse.')

Later on I had heavily invested in external music hardware that worked with the serial port ... then that port just went away, no warning. I switched to a Power clone ... no failures for 7 years. Then I took a chance on an iMac. First the hard drive kept forgetting its partitions. Then, less than a year later, the screen started developing vertical color streaks; when hundreds of other users complained about the same problem on their forum, they shut down the forum. No options, out of warranty. Fool me twice ...

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