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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by WD-42 »

pjmlp wrote: post #396
thewebguyd wrote: post #38

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> Most of the other examples in the article also apply, but to be honest I've been using GNOME in parallel for years now and I consider it to be my "forever desktop" if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon (or, most likely, if I want something that is _just a computer_). I'm there as well. I've been really enjoying desktop Linux lately, but I can't go back to a non-Apple laptop at this point. There's just nothing…

The reason that keeps me on Windows, is that you left out of your list gaming and 3D graphics on laptops. Metal isn't really on pair with Vulkan and DirectX in terms of relevance for graphics programming, the M chips aren't up to NVidia ecosystem, SYCL, the two major compute APIs for any kind of relevant GPGPU workloads, and thus don't really matter. And gaming, well, even though all major engines support Metal, ther…

Gaming is pretty great on Linux now. I just finished a little Elden ring session and it still blows my mind that when I close the game my Linux desktop is there behind it. No more dual booting, hopefully will never need windows for anything ever again.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

chii wrote: post #380
hamstergene wrote: post #375

I keep being tempted to write same post but named "Does all software work like shit now?", because I swear, this is not just Apple. Software in general feels more bugged as a new norm. Most websites have an element that won't load on the first try, or a button that sometimes needs to be clicked twice because the first click did nothing. Amazon shopping app needs two clicks every now and then, because the first one di…

> first job 13+ years ago any QA... such QA jobs no longer exists. Ever since the software dev world has moved to doing one's own QA during development, software has been consistently worse in quality. May be there's a correlation there!

The underlying cause of this is online software updates. Knowing you can fix bugs any time removes the release date as _the_ deadline for fixing all egregious bugs. And so the backlog of bugs keeps growing.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by debesyla »

carlosjobim wrote: post #238
_s wrote: post #19

Not just their software, the hardware is beginning to be get pretty unwieldily complicated. From an OS / software perspective: Have a "core" macOS that has none of the apps / integrations are baked in at an OS level. You install the things you want, how you want - eg iMessage, Mail, and then iCloud if you want to sync it, and Photos etc. Have a slim, fast, stable OS that I can just turn on and get going with. From th…

Why do you want to destroy computing for everybody else just to make a very small group of hackers pleased? Can't you be satisfied with Linux or Windows or BSD? Let normal people have at least one platform that is usable for them.

How is letting users to disable bloat a bad feature?

For example, can you remove Chess from MacOS? Nope! Why? What I found on Reddit, it seems because it's integral part of MacOS somehow and I am a bad person for even asking, somehow.

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Post by sofixa »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #355
toomim wrote: post #317

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You hold down command to see the path.

Where? And how is that option displayed to the user? I also just tried it in Spotlight and Finder, and it did nothing. Which I consider a relief, because undiscoverable bullshit is worse than the feature not existing.

macOS and iPadOS are full of those undiscoverable "if you do this combination of buttons/swipes while at full moon, something happens". As a Mac user not by choice (work issued) I hate how impossible to discover these are.

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Post by pndy »

_s wrote: post #19

Not just their software, the hardware is beginning to be get pretty unwieldily complicated. From an OS / software perspective: Have a "core" macOS that has none of the apps / integrations are baked in at an OS level. You install the things you want, how you want - eg iMessage, Mail, and then iCloud if you want to sync it, and Photos etc. Have a slim, fast, stable OS that I can just turn on and get going with. From th…

I did said similar thing weeks ago regarding all shenanigans with W11: every software should include two paths of installation/OOBE: default "express" where vendor shoves you "the experience" and customized "expert" where you select features YOU want. And either way allows you to change system afterwards. We had that in Windows years ago but then it was removed; some Linux distributions do offer package selection beyond the default set.

There's no need for a separated core version - just give back control to the user. But honestly, I don't know what would need to happen so we could get it - it feels like it's a lost cause against corporations. There's of course Apple-EU situation where you can remove applications, set defaults, install additional app stores but this is still limited to that market and happen way too late and too slow.

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Post by whstl »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #196
nextos wrote: post #167

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Linux power management is pretty good. The problem is that defaults favor desktop and server performance. On a MacBook Air 11, my custom Linux setup and Mac OS had the same battery autonomy, despite Safari being much more energy efficient. The real problem is that, just like the grandparent post pointed out, Apple's software quality has been declining. The Tiger to Snow Leopard epoch was incredible. Apps were simple,…

What’s the actual argument that will credibly convince the top leaders of Apple, to push fixing MacOS up the list of priorities? Because right now it’s clearly so far down, beneath dozens of other priorities, that expecting it to just happen one day seems futile.

Apple is addicted to growth. It is as big as it should be, but it acts like an early stage startup always trying to build some new flashy thing to attract the next customer.

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Post by qwertox »

hamstergene wrote: post #375

I keep being tempted to write same post but named "Does all software work like shit now?", because I swear, this is not just Apple. Software in general feels more bugged as a new norm. Most websites have an element that won't load on the first try, or a button that sometimes needs to be clicked twice because the first click did nothing. Amazon shopping app needs two clicks every now and then, because the first one di…

Few things manage to make me as angry as a link (even if shown in form of a button) which does not open in a new background tab when clicked with the MMB.

Preloading selected results in background tabs and then closing the main tab, so that I can iterate through the results of each clicked item per tab is simply so much more efficient than entering a page, hitting back, entering the next, hitting back, ...

Like the items in Twitter's Explore page.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by berkes »

HexPhantom wrote: post #381
spudlyo wrote: post #32

I'm done with macOS, I've migrated to Linux for my general purpose computing. With every new release of macOS, Gatekeeper is becoming harder and harder to bypass, increasing Apple's control over what software can be run on macOS, forcing apps to be signed with an Apple Developer ID. While I'm happy they are taking security seriously, I'm seriously creeped out that macOS sends hashes of every executable I run to their…

What used to be a powerful, user-respecting OS is increasingly starting to feel like an iOS cousin with training wheels

What OS are you talking about?

If Linux, you'll have to be more specific, because users don't use Linux. They use Android, Ubuntu, Gnome, pop!os, redhat etc.

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Post by briandear »

syeare wrote: post #343
MichaelZuo wrote: post #196

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What’s the actual argument that will credibly convince the top leaders of Apple, to push fixing MacOS up the list of priorities? Because right now it’s clearly so far down, beneath dozens of other priorities, that expecting it to just happen one day seems futile.

The actual argument would be people voting with their wallets and moving away from the Apple ecosystem, but this something impossible at least in the USA due to these bullshit "blue bubbles"

How do blue bubbles make any difference?

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Post by xarope »

capitol_ wrote: post #376
jpk wrote: post #351

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I'm not sure I follow. Your complaint is that Framework only sells direct and not through retailers?

No, there is a lot of us who live in countries that framework doesn't ship to.

ditto (insert sad puppy face here)
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