Comment by Razengan
8 hours ago
You can ask an AI to go through my HN account and see that I used to be an unapologetic Apple fanbitch
Now I must soundly say: Screw Apple.
Momentum and their hardware quality are the only things setting them apart from other platforms, while their ecosystem and individual software products are going to shit.
There's no way to have ourselves heard by them. Their "official" forums are just peer support for users to bang heads against each other.
Ironically, our best hope for computing now is that someone eventually uses AI to make a better OS and ecosystem, like they've started doing with the Adobe and Office clones.
It might not be super healthy to be so emotionally invested in a company, its products, and its doings.
What's the qualifier for "so" (in "so emotionally invested")? Did someone measure it and it's beyond the healthy range?
Parent is just passionate about the quality, or decline, of the tools he spend a good chunk of money of, and spends hours each day doing professional work with.
> Did someone measure it and it's beyond the healthy range?
The person I responded to self-identified as an "Apple fanbitch". Now they categorically say "Screw Apple."
That seems like a pretty emotional attachment swinging from one extreme to another. Attachment will cause you pain.
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I agree with you but buying in to Apple's ecosystem is more than just being emotionally invested in a company. If all of the hardware you bought is going to shit because of what Apple is doing then I think it's fair.
The hardware doesn't change after sale.
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Oh yeah let's not be emotionally invested in the things you use everyday to do basically everything.
Try walking with a pebble in your shoe or sitting in a crooked chair or sleeping on a lumpy mattress and see how long before you get pissed, O Awakened Unattached Sage
Stop bending over for mediocrity.
> Stop bending over for mediocrity.
That's a false binary choice. You can also shift your purchases to other providers if you think a company is providing a shitty product.
...in the things you choose to use everyday to do basically everything
As you see, seeking validation for your anger is not well received when your own culpability goes missing.
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There is already a better OS.
But there is no Windows Phone anymore unfortunately.
I miss my Lumia 720 more than I miss some family members.
Yeah, just not on the aspects that matter to some of us.
Such as?
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Linux? If someone can fix the ecosystem, I'm there.
What's wrong with the ecosystem? Hardware support is robust. Development is done out in the open and miles more professional than the slop Apple or Microsoft are putting out. Desktop environments, distro defaults and documentation are abundant and varied enough to support most user's needs. Besides hostile proprietary closed source software like Adobe or MS Office (of which alternatives are also abundant), what else could you need?
I installed Asahi Linux on my Macbook Air recently and while it definitely took more effort than your grandparent would be capable of, it wasn't too bad. Getting FDE working was a pain for sure though.
The overall experience is good, aside from a few big areas: sleep mode still drains battery a ton, like 20-30% a day or more. And battery life in general while using it is pretty bad. And Firefox constantly runs out of memory and crashes.
Hopefully it improves soon. Even despite these issues I'm not going back to MacOS or Apple ecosystem again despite being a big fan of it and user for the last 7 years.
Those are issues with Asahi, but batter life is great on a Framework 13 pro, or anything with the new Panther Lake chipset.
I mean, I pretty much agree with everyone else here that Apple software quality has gone to shit recently but the issues you describe are just awful.
I would not use a laptop with those issues no matter the problems MacOS has currently.