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Comment by radley

7 days ago

> If you want a repairable machine, buy one. They exist. Others have already mentioned Framework

But that means Windows or Linux, not macOS. There's serious trade-offs that you're dismissing because you personally don't need macOS, but that's not the case for everyone.

#hn-bingo

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ThePowerOfFuet  7 days ago

macOS has slid a long way down the quality ladder over the past ten years.

  • AussieWog93  7 days ago

    In what way? Tahoe's UI SNAFU aside, it seems like it's basically just a more polished version of the older macOS versions from a decade ago.

    • vintagedave  7 days ago

      I run into bugs every day. It wakes, and has a black screen not wallpaper. Change spaces and the focus is wrong for half a second. Login screen is a pain because it collapses all users together. Notifications don’t scroll if they stop scrolling when the cursor is over a gap between them. Something on the system constantly eats disk space, and I think it’s the system updates. If I dock two apps in one space, sometimes one is black. If I zoom out to the Spaces overview it shows fine in the preview though. In the Terminal if I close a tab it can focus an entirely different window.

      I could go on for hours. It’s a buggy mess these days and I miss Lion and Snow Leopard desperately.

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    • jorvi  7 days ago

      For all its faults I do still like modern macOS, but it is a far cry from the beauty that was Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard).

  • radley  7 days ago

    Oh, I completely agree. But they can get away with it because we depend on the platform more than the individual apps.

    And yes, Tahoe is shiny hot garbage piled on top of so much broken software, just to push an effect trick. I'm not sure how I feel developing with SwiftUI when Apple clearly can't make it work for their own apps.

    • nottorp  6 days ago

      > we depend on the platform more than the individual apps

      The only way you actually depend on the platform is if you do Mac OS / iOS development.

      However, I happen to work on a project that requires both Windows and Linux, so I get reminders every day of why I should stay on Mac OS as desktop.

      Caveat 1: no, I'm not upgrading to Tahoe or iOS 26.

      Caveat 2: I wouldn't dream of running a server on anything but Linux. Desktops with a GUI though...

      The problem that fucks us over is that Mac OS only has to be better than the competition.

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