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novaburst
twt.nfld.uk
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@prologic wellll, i was talking about both the GUI front-end and the command-line one (which I tried to build), and macOS if anything, it's actually different to *BSD (because Darwin/XNU, even though I know it has code from freebsd)*
ullarah
txt.quisquiliae.com
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@novaburst not FreeBSD. MacOS started out from the original Berkeley Systems then into Mach, nextStep etc.

Checkout this awesome OS family tree!. I’d love to have that printed on a big poster!
novaburst
twt.nfld.uk
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@ullarah also imho macOS is shit anyway (walled garden), still better than windows xD
david
netbros.com
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@novaburst because, you know, everything needs to be free! ☭ I heard 2022 might be, finally, the year of the Linux desktop. What is shitty now might become usable soon! 😂😜
thecanine
twtxt.net
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@david It's not about free as in price, even Linux has paid distros. It's about being free to use your device and the software on it in any way you want/need to. I think even Windows and Android are leagues better, comparing them in this way.
david
netbros.com
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@thecanine that kool aid has been going on since forever. I just don't get it. If I don't like to use something—for whatever reason—I simply don't. The hate for Apple, whether is the company, or its products, is equivalent to Apple "fanboyism"; both extremes are equally stupid.

You can't compare Microsoft Windows, or Android, with macOS/iOS. The first two were not specifically designed to run on—and take full advantage of—a set hardware. It is proven they all have their niche. As with everything in life, there is always something for everyone. Some people love Microsoft Windows, and Android, and that's alright. Others like Apple hardware, the software that comes with it, as is. And others, like @prologic, tweak it to their liking (I do tweak my macOS too, but use the Apple "ecosystem" way more than @prologic). It's that simple.
thecanine
twtxt.net
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@david I don't even hate Apple, there are even divisions of Microsoft and Google, that I dislike way more than any part of Apple to be honest.

I think one can absolutely have a good reason to hate a company, that produces things they don't even use. The best example of this was Microsofts Internet Explorer, which for decades made lives of many web developers a living hell.

Some web developers argue site rendering on Apple products can still be somewhat lacking (even outside of missing codecs) and working in that area now, I can confirm a few sites had to be changed to show up right on Macs, though to be fair I don't know what exactly was causing it.

Also damn Apple, I really hope they learned how to finally make screens, that don't come off when cleaned.



Believing me, I've seen this on almost every other Macbook, back during my internship in Ireland. 😏

Cheap shots (and there are many more) aside, part of me would still like to give M1 Macs a fair try, so if any of you work high positions at Apple and my approval is for some (even to me unknown) reason somehow really important to you, feel free to send me one of those machines for free and I might retract some of what I said, at least when it comes to Macs. 😄