<story><title>Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000</title><url>https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2019/10/apple-of-2019-is-linux-of-2000.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Windows 10 works marginally better. Both remain vastly inferior to MacOs.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s where I&amp;#x27;m stuck. We&amp;#x27;re all-in at our house on Apple stuff. I&amp;#x27;m no Windows hater per se, hell, I used to work at Microsoft and my wife still does. And there was a time that I&amp;#x27;d say about Mac OS: &amp;quot;this is what an operating system should be&amp;quot;. Oh, you most certainly disagree, but bear with me. I don&amp;#x27;t say that anymore. Too much half-assed shit, and yada yada, no need to repeat it here; macOS ain&amp;#x27;t what it used to be. But what else am I going to use? I keep rootin&amp;#x27; for Linux, but every time I boot one of my VMs, well, it ain&amp;#x27;t replacing macOS just yet. Windows (at least the NT variants) when I worked for MSFT was a perfectly servicable operating system. It wasn&amp;#x27;t Unix, but it was better than classic Mac OS, and pretty damned solid. But I have to use Windows 10 at work now, and I fucking hate it. Again, no need to repeat it all here, I just do.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, Mac hardware sucks, too. I guess when my 2012 retina dies, I&amp;#x27;ll have to...oh, wait a minute, I&amp;#x27;m still plugging away on a seven year old laptop? That I&amp;#x27;ve dragged all over God&amp;#x27;s creation and use daily? Still as functional as the day I bought it? I dunno, &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; I find a better alternative come replacement time? Or has the quality of everything else gone down, too? I know, I know, X1 Carbon, XPS; but then my gut seems to think that I hear just as much complaining about those, too.&lt;p&gt;So in truth, when the 2012 MBP dies, I have no idea what I&amp;#x27;m going to do to replace it.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: thanks, folks. Don&amp;#x27;t know why I hadn&amp;#x27;t considered used 2015. If a 2012 is fine, I ought to be tickled with a 2015, right? :-)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sidenote: &amp;quot;which listed the magical indentation that purges reserved space.&amp;quot; Unless you&amp;#x27;re using Python, I think the author wants to replace &amp;quot;indentation&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;incantation&amp;quot;.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item><item><author>nkoren</author><text>Meh. I bailed out of the Mac ecosystem last year, as my mid-2012 retina Macbook was finally getting too creaky, and the latest Mac hardware was a regression in many respects, while simultaneously utterly unaffordable. I&amp;#x27;m now dual-booting Ubuntu&amp;#x2F;Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 15&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What this experience has taught me is that computing in 2019 basically sucks. The problems with 2000-era Linux, as described in the article, are very similar to the problems with 2019-era Linux. External monitors are a particular pain point for me. I&amp;#x27;ve got an HDPI laptop and I want to plug into an old non-HDPI era monitor. Doesn&amp;#x27;t work. Spend the next 10 hours poking around forums, trying weird XWindows options, installing Wayland, etc. Still doesn&amp;#x27;t work. Eventually, give up.&lt;p&gt;Windows 10 works marginally better. Both remain vastly inferior to MacOs.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying that the grass isn&amp;#x27;t greener on the other side. Macs &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; regressing, but the grass isn&amp;#x27;t greener on &lt;i&gt;either&lt;/i&gt; side. Let&amp;#x27;s stop pretending otherwise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FPGAhacker</author><text>Find a used 2015 mbp. I love mine (15 inch, mid 2015).&lt;p&gt;I probably would have upgraded for a better gpu, but the keyboards are too iffy for me.  I shed a lot, and if dust&amp;#x2F;detritus is the mbp keyboard killer, it will never work for me.&lt;p&gt;Honestly I mostly use my iPad now.  Work-work is still a dell laptop with win 10, and is daily torture to use.  Mostly from all the corporate spyware my employer loads it down with.&lt;p&gt;At home, even for coding, I use the iPad second gen 12.9 and a vps.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000</title><url>https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2019/10/apple-of-2019-is-linux-of-2000.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Windows 10 works marginally better. Both remain vastly inferior to MacOs.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s where I&amp;#x27;m stuck. We&amp;#x27;re all-in at our house on Apple stuff. I&amp;#x27;m no Windows hater per se, hell, I used to work at Microsoft and my wife still does. And there was a time that I&amp;#x27;d say about Mac OS: &amp;quot;this is what an operating system should be&amp;quot;. Oh, you most certainly disagree, but bear with me. I don&amp;#x27;t say that anymore. Too much half-assed shit, and yada yada, no need to repeat it here; macOS ain&amp;#x27;t what it used to be. But what else am I going to use? I keep rootin&amp;#x27; for Linux, but every time I boot one of my VMs, well, it ain&amp;#x27;t replacing macOS just yet. Windows (at least the NT variants) when I worked for MSFT was a perfectly servicable operating system. It wasn&amp;#x27;t Unix, but it was better than classic Mac OS, and pretty damned solid. But I have to use Windows 10 at work now, and I fucking hate it. Again, no need to repeat it all here, I just do.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, Mac hardware sucks, too. I guess when my 2012 retina dies, I&amp;#x27;ll have to...oh, wait a minute, I&amp;#x27;m still plugging away on a seven year old laptop? That I&amp;#x27;ve dragged all over God&amp;#x27;s creation and use daily? Still as functional as the day I bought it? I dunno, &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; I find a better alternative come replacement time? Or has the quality of everything else gone down, too? I know, I know, X1 Carbon, XPS; but then my gut seems to think that I hear just as much complaining about those, too.&lt;p&gt;So in truth, when the 2012 MBP dies, I have no idea what I&amp;#x27;m going to do to replace it.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: thanks, folks. Don&amp;#x27;t know why I hadn&amp;#x27;t considered used 2015. If a 2012 is fine, I ought to be tickled with a 2015, right? :-)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sidenote: &amp;quot;which listed the magical indentation that purges reserved space.&amp;quot; Unless you&amp;#x27;re using Python, I think the author wants to replace &amp;quot;indentation&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;incantation&amp;quot;.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item><item><author>nkoren</author><text>Meh. I bailed out of the Mac ecosystem last year, as my mid-2012 retina Macbook was finally getting too creaky, and the latest Mac hardware was a regression in many respects, while simultaneously utterly unaffordable. I&amp;#x27;m now dual-booting Ubuntu&amp;#x2F;Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 15&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What this experience has taught me is that computing in 2019 basically sucks. The problems with 2000-era Linux, as described in the article, are very similar to the problems with 2019-era Linux. External monitors are a particular pain point for me. I&amp;#x27;ve got an HDPI laptop and I want to plug into an old non-HDPI era monitor. Doesn&amp;#x27;t work. Spend the next 10 hours poking around forums, trying weird XWindows options, installing Wayland, etc. Still doesn&amp;#x27;t work. Eventually, give up.&lt;p&gt;Windows 10 works marginally better. Both remain vastly inferior to MacOs.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying that the grass isn&amp;#x27;t greener on the other side. Macs &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; regressing, but the grass isn&amp;#x27;t greener on &lt;i&gt;either&lt;/i&gt; side. Let&amp;#x27;s stop pretending otherwise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>augstein</author><text>Just get a 2015 MBP. These are the last ones with MagSafe and more than Thunderbolt 3 ports.</text></comment>