Comment by btown
14 days ago
macOS (not iOS) used to be this. POSIX underpinnings. Iconography and visual language designed for clarity and simplicity. Balances between customizability and system stability with deactivatable gatekeepers.
Now, the same way Windows serves Microsoft’s AI investments, Apple serves a nebulous corporate goal for inimitable (read: too unpredictable/unreliable for competitors to copy) Liquid [Gl]ass user interfaces at the expense of clarity, and launch speed at the expense of stability.
I’m not sure if Steve Jobs would have complained about the market capitalization - but he certainly would have executed product improvements more cleanly.
It’s not yet the year of Linux on desktop, I don’t think - but we get closer every year.
> It’s not yet the year of Linux on desktop, I don’t think - but we get closer every year.
It is if you want it to be. For me it was 1996 - been doing great on Linux since then.
Wow, i thought it was just me, glad to to see i am not alone. I ditch windows in 1996 for Linux, never look back!
> It’s not yet the year of Linux on desktop, I don’t think - but we get closer every year.
For me it is. I was already considering going back to Linux for a while, and MacOS Tahoe pushed me over the fence. Got a Thinkpad with Linux as a replacement for my MacBook some months ago and don’t regret it yet.
> It’s not yet the year of Linux on desktop
Not for me. Coincidentally, I spent half a day yesterday with Gemini trying to install Linux Mint so that it dual boots with my Windows 10. Unfortunately - no matter what I did (and I tried a lot of things), the installer "couldn't locate an existing system installation" and warned me of losing access to my data should I continue.
Now, I am using computers since 1980s, and I said "Nope, I don't have time for this". Now imagine a casual user trying to fight with GRUB.
If you have Bitlocker on on windows you might have to disable it for dual boot installation to work (you can re-enable it later).
I don't have Bitlocker enabled.
I swapped from Windows 11 to Linux in 2024 (Arch for a bit, NixOS for the last 1.5 years) and can never go back. Linux isn't perfect yet, but my experience is so much better now, and it will only improve. Windows seems to be regressing in many ways.
Yeah, the regressions in Mac OS are particularly ill-timed and infuriating because there is no real competition now. I consider Windows unusable. It's not even worth talking about anymore; and I was a big Windows fan (and developer) into the 2000s. Now I don't have a single instance of Windows running in my house.
If Apple's slide continues, computing will recede back to its hobbyist/academic roots, I guess.