Too true. MacOS is the one place you can get a UNIX toolchain in a stable environment. If something works on my Mac, it works on my coworker’s Mac. If something works on Ubuntu but you’re using Nix… Uh, YMMV.
I love Linux, but if you’re gonna use it as a desktop OS, you pretty much accept that you now have a part-time job keeping up on Linux news to deal with the fact that each component of your system is in a perpetual state of “deprecated support for The Old Way, and experimental support for The New Way”.
I want it; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
Man, this guy’s wiki background ends on a banger.
" In mid-2013, his website announced: “God’s temple is finished. Now, God kills CIA until it spreads [sic].”[6]
Davis died after being hit by a train on August 11, 2018.[7]"
The reason MacOS is seen as a working computer is because if anything breaks about it, it isn’t considered a computer anymore by Apple, it is considered e-waste.
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This was a problem when they were selling Apple IIs
MUGs came into being because Apple provided zero support and overcharged for proprietary hardware. So the only recourse was to find a hobbyist, and they were glad to help.
So I’m switching to TempleOS.
So am I too crazy for 🐧?
I am not at all mentally stable, but was planning on starting my switch in January.
I think you get your pick of BSDs.
I absolutely cannot figure out what to do in order to fix an Apple computer when it’s bugging out. Is it a part? The OS? Something external? How am I supposed to diagnose this fucker with so little information? Windows is rapidly heading down the same road. Linux will remain the final bastion of those who fix their electronics themselves
If only it had a whole slew of logs, like any other OS, that I could easily Google the locations of… Nah, vomiting ignorance on Lemmy is easier.
macOS is Unix. Everything can be logged and reported through the terminal if you want more debugging information. There are also power tools you can download that give you better GUI-based control over a myriad of things.
Though it’s worse now than it was ten years ago. Apple’s software has been suffering under Tim Cook and it’s probably not going to get better until he’s gone.
I absolutely cannot figure out what to do in order to fix an Apple computer when it’s bugging out
Buy a new one, duh
Indeed I think the “Yes/No” are the wrong way around on the Apple part of the flow.
Also, why else do you think they call them geniuses. Only geniuses could possibly fix your smooth metal rectangle.
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Do you like to throw money at your problems and more money when you’re told: 🍎
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Do you have a nonconsensual submissive kink with a love for sadistic roughly forced updates destroying what you were working on and ads shoved deep up your home directory: 🪟
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Do you like free stuff and can RTFM: 🐧
why RTFM when you can
- Be the manual (own distro)
- forum (Linux mint fr fr epic gaming free robux baby gronk rizzed up livvy dunne sigma) i use this
sorry for the brainrot
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Do you like being spied on and having your data sold?
=> Windows or ChromeOSDo you have too much money?
=> MacDo you have a decent set of working brains?
=> LinuxWorking computer - >Mac
Should have been:
Do you have more money than brains?->Mac
Or
Fuck this, I’m doing this for shit and giggles. ->Mac
Is my employer paying for it? ➔ 🍎
The best thing about quitting was returning that damned Mac… Hated every second of using it, horrid UX.
Well if your definition of “working” is “can run all the important programs and game” then anything thats not windows or linux wont work.
Honestly. I got a work mac and now I can’t run notepad++. I’m stuck with an ide I hate.
Thanks for the suggestions. I cannot fucking stand vscode or vscodium
Which aspects about it do you dislike?
I’m asking since for most everything – except maybe the fact it’s Electron-based – there’s an extension, or the behavior can already be altered in the settings.
Also, IDK how your workplace handles application management, but if you have any freedom as a developer (if that is your role?), make sure to get a package manager, presumably Homebrew or MacPorts.
Brew especially isn’t perfect, butbrew install <name>handily beats out any installation method containing the words “App Store” or “Browser download button.”You have to apply some (from time to time well-hidden) tweaks to macOS until it becomes usable. :P
TempleOS, huh? Better give it a try then.
It’s an amazing piece of technology made as a hobby project by the absurdly talented Terry Davis. He gradually lost his world, house and evetually his life to debilitating mental illness, so it makes me sad to see posts like this using “mentally unstable lol” as a punchline.
I agree it’s in poor taste to make fun of his mental health issues but calling TempleOS a “hobby project” is burying the lede a little…
So … no updates?
where plan 9
In outer space
