<story><title>OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/13/os-x-is-now-macos-and-gets-support-for-siri-auto-unlock-and-more/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snuxoll</author><text>I swear, I must be the only person on the planet satisfied with the current state of systemd and GNOME 3. Fedora 23 is my main workstation OS and I have the &lt;i&gt;least&lt;/i&gt; amount of friction getting my work done on it compared to either Windows or macOS these days. Then again, I mostly spend my day in IntelliJ, DataGrip, PyCharm, Firefox, a terminal, and a Windows VM for when I&amp;#x27;m forced to open Visual Studio.</text></item><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>&amp;gt; Linux, please take off.&lt;p&gt;Sorry, no can do. We have to complete the process of breaking everything with systemd, then as soon as that&amp;#x27;s done rewrite KDE and Gnome from scratch &lt;i&gt;again&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item><item><author>nothis</author><text>I like Apple&amp;#x27;s mobile devices but ever since the iPad turned out to be a giant iPhone instead of a true desktop&amp;#x2F;mobile hybrid, I&amp;#x27;m scared as hell that they will lock down their desktop&amp;#x2F;laptop ecosystem the way they do with mobile. It&amp;#x27;s clear now that iOS is absorbing everything Mac.&lt;p&gt;Now I&amp;#x27;m trapped between MacOS, Windows 10 and maybe Google&amp;#x27;s Chrome environment. Linux, please take off. I wished the open source community had good interface&amp;#x2F;usability designers.</text></item><item><author>bobbyi_settv</author><text>It seems like more and more of the work on MacOS is dedicated to propping up iOS instead of simply making a great desktop OS. As someone who does not use or want Apple&amp;#x27;s mobile devices, it&amp;#x27;s been hard to get excited about these last few releases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyphar</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a maintainer of runC and long-term contributor to Docker. From my perspective, systemd has been nothing but a huge pain from a development perspective. Not because of the UX (which is okay, there&amp;#x27;s lots of odd stuff there too) but because systemd sets up the system in a way that is ridiculously frustrating for people using low-level kernel primitives directly.&lt;p&gt;If you want to use cgroups and don&amp;#x27;t want systemd to start messing around with your setup, then you have to go through systemd (which is bad, but it gets worse when you find out that systemd doesn&amp;#x27;t support all cgroups). Also, systemd has ridiculous defaults. I wrote the pids cgroup code in the kernel, and was surprised when systemd set the default limit for all system services to be &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;512&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; tasks and &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;4096&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; for all user tasks. Then there&amp;#x27;s the binary logging format which is such a brain-dead idea, that I&amp;#x27;m not even sure how someone actually went through the process of writing the code without ever considering that it was a bad idea.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s just one example of the things that annoy me with systemd. Things mostly work with it, but if you actually want to do something, using it is such a pain. If systemd had stayed as what was promised (a replacement for init scripts) and hadn&amp;#x27;t gone beyond that (managing your bootloader, binary logging, abusing cgroups and changing the kernel plans for what cgroupv2 should look like, messing around with coredumps, misusing &amp;#x2F;dev&amp;#x2F;kmem to actually spam people who are trying to debug kernel issues, an-almost-but-not-quite reimplementation of ntpd, etc).&lt;p&gt;If they didn&amp;#x27;t have such strong views that they were entitled to be the owners of &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; system, it might actually have turned out as a good project. Too bad that the management of the project has decided that they should &amp;quot;rewrite all the things, but badly&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/13/os-x-is-now-macos-and-gets-support-for-siri-auto-unlock-and-more/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snuxoll</author><text>I swear, I must be the only person on the planet satisfied with the current state of systemd and GNOME 3. Fedora 23 is my main workstation OS and I have the &lt;i&gt;least&lt;/i&gt; amount of friction getting my work done on it compared to either Windows or macOS these days. Then again, I mostly spend my day in IntelliJ, DataGrip, PyCharm, Firefox, a terminal, and a Windows VM for when I&amp;#x27;m forced to open Visual Studio.</text></item><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>&amp;gt; Linux, please take off.&lt;p&gt;Sorry, no can do. We have to complete the process of breaking everything with systemd, then as soon as that&amp;#x27;s done rewrite KDE and Gnome from scratch &lt;i&gt;again&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item><item><author>nothis</author><text>I like Apple&amp;#x27;s mobile devices but ever since the iPad turned out to be a giant iPhone instead of a true desktop&amp;#x2F;mobile hybrid, I&amp;#x27;m scared as hell that they will lock down their desktop&amp;#x2F;laptop ecosystem the way they do with mobile. It&amp;#x27;s clear now that iOS is absorbing everything Mac.&lt;p&gt;Now I&amp;#x27;m trapped between MacOS, Windows 10 and maybe Google&amp;#x27;s Chrome environment. Linux, please take off. I wished the open source community had good interface&amp;#x2F;usability designers.</text></item><item><author>bobbyi_settv</author><text>It seems like more and more of the work on MacOS is dedicated to propping up iOS instead of simply making a great desktop OS. As someone who does not use or want Apple&amp;#x27;s mobile devices, it&amp;#x27;s been hard to get excited about these last few releases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digi_owl</author><text>Well Fedora is basically systemd central, so no surprises there. Frankly if it continues the way it has, every distro becomes Fedora with the serial numbers filed off...</text></comment>