Comment by kiawe_fire
4 years ago
This is the attitude anyone who cares about this stuff needs to adopt. Especially those with engineering, design, or documentation skills.
Now is the time to get the open alternatives shored up, and to start creating a viable and concise pathway and ecosystem that we can recommend to “non-techies” who are looking for an alternative.
That can only happen if we start using this stuff now, and commit to donating some time and effort to take the deficiencies we find in our own use and make them better.
It’s fine to vent, and I hope to see people continue to call big tech out. But putting on a more positive mindset, this is actually an amazing opportunity we have to start creating the change we want to see.
1. Ditch Apple
2. Buy the best that exists today (ie System76)
3. Give monthly critical feedback every step of the way to open source hw/sw companies and their competitors about what you really need in the next version
4. Buy a Better world
Ask HN: Do you use Purism, PinePhone, or Fairphone? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28216287
I successfully transformed my company from MacOS to Arch on Apple hardware. There are two computers left with Catalina for some specific workflows, in isolation from outside world.
System 76 are cool, but when the time comes we will build custom PCs for work. The "aura" and "coolness" of Apple is gone.
I admit that my decision to use only Apple computers in the office was irrational and tainted by emotional perception from the past. I almost puled the trigger for M1 Air and was planning to upgrade office Macbook Pro's to M1X. Not anymore.
Wow congrats, getting Macs to run Linux sounds a superhuman feat.
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> That can only happen if we start using this stuff now, and commit to donating some time and effort to take the deficiencies we find in our own use and make them better.
If, and i doubt it in any reasonable time, you can replace all of apples ecosystem, including buying / renting of DRM media i would switch. until then switching is quite a big step back.
the problem is not lack of software so much as it’s lack of industry support.
The industry is what got us here in the first place... we need to do this for ourselves. By us, for us.
yea great pep talk, but go convince the various license and copyright holders to allow you to create a store to sell media on linux. this just isn’t going to happen. which means, we’re done here.