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Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by jsjohnst »

icebraining wrote: post #356
jsjohnst wrote: post #324

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Yes, that’s a great argument for Linux, but much less so for macOS. Apple and Microsoft are roughly comparable these days (and that’s not a compliment to either), but after many years of “next year is the year of the Linux desktop”, Linux is still a pain to install on most consumer hardware in comparison to either macOS or Windows.

Nope, Linux is much easier to install on most consumer hardware compared to macOS. The latter is only easier on the minority of models made by single vendor.

> The latter is only easier on the minority of models made by single vendor.

And it's only "legal" on the minority of models made by a single vendor. That doesn't make it any less relevant that for the intended environment for it to be installed on, it's far easier.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by Chaebixi »

epmaybe wrote: post #100
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #82

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And the laptops only come with USB-C ports, and I'm yet to meet anybody who owns anything which can be plugged into one of those without a dongle (I suppose excluding their Mac charger :)).

I do wish they kept an SD card reader, I use that quite often and now have to use an adapter.

Dongles are the future.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by icebraining »

jsjohnst wrote: post #361
icebraining wrote: post #356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, Linux is much easier to install on most consumer hardware compared to macOS. The latter is only easier on the minority of models made by single vendor.

> The latter is only easier on the minority of models made by single vendor. And it's only "legal" on the minority of models made by a single vendor . That doesn't make it any less relevant that for the intended environment for it to be installed on, it's far easier.

So if only Linus would threaten you with a lawsuit for installing it in a model not designed explicitly for it, then Linux would be a much better system than it is today, right?

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by pfranz »

y_tho wrote: post #283
pfranz wrote: post #207

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It sounds like you have a hardware problem with your Mac. Time Machine and wake from sleep could be signs of bad RAM...maybe the audio problem, too. Or maybe the extra stuff your work installs? In my experience (for all platforms) that software is low-level and of dubious quality. OTOH, as long as your hardware is decently supported, I haven't really had fundamental complaints about desktop Linux in the 10+ years I'v…

> could be signs of bad RAM Well, they can just open it up and cha-... I hope it's an older model.

Sadly, comparable PC laptops are following the same trend. (this could be like the headphone jack, where Apple leads the way and others follow even if consumers aren't happy). The other week I was looking at alternatives to a 13" MacbookPro that were known to run Linux well. My shortlist was a Dell XPS 13 and a Razer Blade Stealth--both have soldered on RAM (I was also looking at Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga and Dell Precision 7xxx, but I never got far enough to see if they had replaceable memory).

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by jsjohnst »

icebraining wrote: post #363
jsjohnst wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The latter is only easier on the minority of models made by single vendor. And it's only "legal" on the minority of models made by a single vendor . That doesn't make it any less relevant that for the intended environment for it to be installed on, it's far easier.

So if only Linus would threaten you with a lawsuit for installing it in a model not designed explicitly for it, then Linux would be a much better system than it is today, right?

If there was a single high end mainstream laptop on the market which had comparable full hardware support of everything on the machine as macOS does to a MBP, then you could say something, but alas there isn’t and likely never will be.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by pfranz »

mi100hael wrote: post #219
pfranz wrote: post #207

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It sounds like you have a hardware problem with your Mac. Time Machine and wake from sleep could be signs of bad RAM...maybe the audio problem, too. Or maybe the extra stuff your work installs? In my experience (for all platforms) that software is low-level and of dubious quality. OTOH, as long as your hardware is decently supported, I haven't really had fundamental complaints about desktop Linux in the 10+ years I'v…

The audio issue only happened to me on one copy, but the wake from sleep and TM issues have happened on multiple MacBook Pros, both with & without the work bloatware. I'm inclined to blame those on bugs in macOS.

Are you using it in clamshell mode? Where you keep the lid closed and use an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse (you mentioned mbp and macbook air in your post). If so, I have heard about multiple problems like sleep/wake and cooling issues across multiple models and multiple OS releases. That is a specific use case I've heard avid mac users complain about over the years.

I did encounter corrupted Time Machine backups when I set up my own network Time Machine Server in Linux (using netatalk). When my laptop would go to sleep in the middle of a backup over wifi the whole backup would get corrupted. I haven't had that problem since I switched to using Synology as a network Time Machine server (I never had it happen when using a USB Time Machine backup, either). I've never used a Time Capsule.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by Tsiklon »

TheKarateKid wrote: post #352
egb wrote: post #2

I so wish Apple had not removed the older Sierra installer from the Mac AppStore... I need to update some machines but High Sierra does not seem ready for reliable use yet.

I don't understand why Apple can't just make the past few releases of OS X available to anyone who needs it. It's a free OS now, and it has tons of hardware checks to prevent it from being run on non-Apple hardware. I don't understand their need to remove/hide the OS upgrades. I have to repair a friend's older MBP next week, and now I need to jump through hoops to get a legitimate installer. If you fall more than 1 v…

They do; if you have it in your purchase history on your iCloud account and your machine supports the older version you can grab the installer.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by mi100hael »

jsjohnst wrote: post #221
mi100hael wrote: post #145

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I have a Dell Precision laptop running Linux at home and a MacBook Pro from work. On a weekly basis, the Mac won't wake from sleep and requires a hard reboot. The Time Machine backups get corrupted at least every other month and require a full backup from scratch. Sometimes the audio just quits working when I wake from sleep. The App Store is some horribly wrapped, unresponsive web app. Disk Utility is useless. Etc,…

I don’t get why engineers let a broken setup hinder them for long periods of time and don’t do a simple google search and spend five minutes fixing their machine. None of your problems you listed are things “broken” and Apple is ignoring, shit happens and sometimes you need to fix it. If you can’t be bothered, take it to the Apple store or give it to your work IT person.

Please, enlighten me as to how I can keep a MBP from freezing when I open the lid. Or from corrupting my Time Machine backups. Or how I can fix the fact that their applications like Disk Utility and the App Store suck.

:eyeroll:

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by dlwdlw »

KGIII wrote: post #272
thought_alarm wrote: post #49

How did Disk Utility.app go from being one of the great built-in OS X utilities to the embarrassing amateurish shit show that it is today? Perhaps the same people responsible for the file system engineering are also responsible for developing this user-facing application. They might excel at low level system engineering, but they are utterly unqualified to develop a high level GUI application. Spend 5 minutes with th…

One of the most-common complaints that I see about Apple is that they have allowed macOS' quality to steadily decline and the most-common speculation has been that this declination in quality is because macOS makes Apple less money than iOS. The iOS-using products are Apple's cash cow. It does make sense that they'd prioritize working on iOS. However, what doesn't make sense is that Apple certainly has enough resourc…

Desperation creates grasping feature creep.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by jordache »

nkkollaw wrote: post #38
jordache wrote: post #27

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which mbp model?

2016. The keys are so shallow that after normal use (no crumbs or anything like that) they start having problems. As for battery life, they had to make it 4mm thinner just for the sake of it, and the screen sucks all the battery. I wish it was thicker but I could actually use it without keeping plugging it in.

My 2016MBP just crashed from sleep wake twice within 1 hr.. Crash meaning I need to hold down the power button to force a hard reset.

Apple you POS! THe only thing that keeps your MBP some what usasble is the "so far" stellar state restore post crash.

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