Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets::Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple’s sales numbers. Apple began…

  • @maniacal_gaff
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    5211 months ago

    I am insanely interested but the apple ecosystem sucks. I use a MacBook for work because it’s that or Windows, but good lord do i hate the closed source walled garden. Linux at home ftw.

    • @[email protected]
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      5711 months ago

      MacOS is waaay better for that than iOS though. If you squint a little and try to stick to the CLI, you can pretend it’s Linux.

      • @abhibeckert
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        511 months ago

        Or, run docker and have actual Linux.

        • @marx2k
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          1211 months ago

          That docker engine still runs in a small Linux vm.

          And the m1, m2, etc chips killed the use of VirtualBox for running full fledged vms :/

            • @marx2k
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              111 months ago

              The problem is creating isos and vagrantfiles for the common denominator that can be shared via git and artifactory

          • @[email protected]
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            -111 months ago

            but that’s hardly a viable desktop experience on its own.

            Wat?

            I just don’t get it, have you tried using Linux on desktop or are you just repeating standard phrases about it thinking that sounds normal?

            • @[email protected]
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              411 months ago

              I think you might have thought I was saying “Linux doesn’t offer a viable desktop experience.” That is not what I’m saying. I’ve installed Linux distros on all sorts of machines, including Macs, and happily used it as a daily driver.

              I’m saying that a Docker container on a Macbook can’t offer a viable desktop experience.

    • @Tangent5280
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      411 months ago

      I LOVE LOVE LOVE how I can open the screen on my mac and immediately continue where I left off. I love how the entire laptop is made out of metal that doesn’t bend or warp and whose hinge works today just like it did half a decade ago.

      I hate everything else about the mac, especially how I have to pay inflated prices for everything. I hate even more about how fucking hard it is to get into the actual nitty gritty system settings on a mac. If I could find a reasonably priced laptop with great build quality and immediate boot, I’d throw my mac in the garbage or sell it off to someone else who would appreciate it much more.

      I guess I dont really need to mention I’m poor. If I wasnt Id already have got a second laptop that ran not-macOS

    • @fox2263
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      macOS isn’t walled…

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        As someone who has to support MacOS desktop… It functionally is?

        Ok sure, it’s not as bad as Android or iOS, but it’s far from “anyone can simply download and run”

        • @Wodge
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          1911 months ago

          TIL Android is a walled garden.

          • @Stovetop
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            111 months ago

            Well, courts seemed to think so in the Epic v Google case

            • @Wodge
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              Google Play Store is, kinda, but Android itself is not.

        • @[email protected]
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          How is it “functionally” walled? How is it far from “anyone can simply download and run”? It literally is just that. Anyone can download anything and run any unsigned code. I am baffled by the fact that all the people correcting you are getting downvoted.

          • @RookiA
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            Except, what apple dont want you to run.

            • M137
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              711 months ago

              Yes, Counter-Strike is available for MacOS.

              • @[email protected]
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                -411 months ago

                ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ not according to steam, but regardless there are literally thousands of games that do not run on Macs so still an ignorant statement

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                  I’m just curious of an example of a game or two you play that’s not available on Mac. There’s some newish tech that allows Macs to virtualize/emulate windows tech including DirectX 12. Not coming for you I’m just curious to test those waters.

                  (I don’t play computer games, sorry for not knowing)

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                    Virtualization means it’s not running on MacOS…

                    And, I don’t have a Mac so definitely not something I pay any attention to, but it’s pretty easy to see if a game on steam supports MacOS.

                    Far Cry 6 doesn’t run on MacOS. I’d imagine most Ubisoft games don’t.

                    Edit: oh, and Counter-Strike 2… Doesn’t play on MacOS. Apparently I had to be specific about the “2” version.

        • @[email protected]
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          311 months ago

          but it’s far from “anyone can simply download and run”

          But it is? You can just right click and run any apps from any source on macos.

          • @[email protected]
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            511 months ago

            Not sure why you’re getting downvoted on that. It’s factually accurate. You can easily run unsigned code from anywhere on a Mac, unwalled, no problem. I’ve got a SAB / radarr / sonarr / HASS server running on old hardware with a current OS and… it’s great.

            Also isn’t Xcode free? So you can literally “simply“ download, develop, and run