• kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    7·
    1 hour ago

    Too true. MacOS is the one place you can get a UNIX toolchain in a stable environment. If something works on my Mac, it works on my coworker’s Mac. If something works on Ubuntu but you’re using Nix… Uh, YMMV.

    I love Linux, but if you’re gonna use it as a desktop OS, you pretty much accept that you now have a part-time job keeping up on Linux news to deal with the fact that each component of your system is in a perpetual state of “deprecated support for The Old Way, and experimental support for The New Way”.

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      10 minutes ago

      Our Mac colleague is literally the only one in the dev team having constant troubles, constantly spinning up VMs to get stuff working.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
      2·
      40 minutes ago

      Man, this guy’s wiki background ends on a banger.

      " In mid-2013, his website announced: “God’s temple is finished. Now, God kills CIA until it spreads [sic].”[6]

      Davis died after being hit by a train on August 11, 2018.[7]"

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
    473·
    4 hours ago

    The reason MacOS is seen as a working computer is because if anything breaks about it, it isn’t considered a computer anymore by Apple, it is considered e-waste.

  • WolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
    711·
    6 hours ago

    I absolutely cannot figure out what to do in order to fix an Apple computer when it’s bugging out. Is it a part? The OS? Something external? How am I supposed to diagnose this fucker with so little information? Windows is rapidly heading down the same road. Linux will remain the final bastion of those who fix their electronics themselves

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 hour ago

      If only it had a whole slew of logs, like any other OS, that I could easily Google the locations of… Nah, vomiting ignorance on Lemmy is easier.

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
      13·
      3 hours ago

      macOS is Unix. Everything can be logged and reported through the terminal if you want more debugging information. There are also power tools you can download that give you better GUI-based control over a myriad of things.

      Though it’s worse now than it was ten years ago. Apple’s software has been suffering under Tim Cook and it’s probably not going to get better until he’s gone.

    • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz
      16·
      6 hours ago

      Indeed I think the “Yes/No” are the wrong way around on the Apple part of the flow.

      Also, why else do you think they call them geniuses. Only geniuses could possibly fix your smooth metal rectangle.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    553·
    6 hours ago

    • Do you like to throw money at your problems and more money when you’re told: 🍎

    • Do you have a nonconsensual submissive kink with a love for sadistic roughly forced updates destroying what you were working on and ads shoved deep up your home directory: 🪟

    • Do you like free stuff and can RTFM: 🐧

    • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      161·
      6 hours ago

      why RTFM when you can

      1. Be the manual (own distro)
      2. forum (Linux mint fr fr epic gaming free robux baby gronk rizzed up livvy dunne sigma) i use this

      sorry for the brainrot

  • Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    183·
    5 hours ago

    Do you like being spied on and having your data sold?
    => Windows or ChromeOS

    Do you have too much money?
    => Mac

    Do you have a decent set of working brains?
    => Linux

  • Redredme@lemmy.world
    232·
    6 hours ago

    Working computer - >Mac

    Should have been:

    Do you have more money than brains?->Mac

    Or

    Fuck this, I’m doing this for shit and giggles. ->Mac

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    314·
    7 hours ago

    Well if your definition of “working” is “can run all the important programs and game” then anything thats not windows or linux wont work.

      • stetech@lemmy.world
        9·
        5 hours ago

        Use TextEdit for .txt and .rtf, and get Sublime Text, VS Codium, or any of the other bazillion IDEs out there until you find one you can tolerate. Helix does that for me. (:

          • stetech@lemmy.world
            4·
            5 hours ago

            Which aspects about it do you dislike?

            I’m asking since for most everything – except maybe the fact it’s Electron-based – there’s an extension, or the behavior can already be altered in the settings.

            Also, IDK how your workplace handles application management, but if you have any freedom as a developer (if that is your role?), make sure to get a package manager, presumably Homebrew or MacPorts.
            Brew especially isn’t perfect, but brew install <name> handily beats out any installation method containing the words “App Store” or “Browser download button.”

            You have to apply some (from time to time well-hidden) tweaks to macOS until it becomes usable. :P

      • Nester@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        5 hours ago

        If you’re willing to take the plunge and spend more time in the terminal you could give neovim a try.

        To turn it into an IDE contender you can use LazyVim to automatically setup a bunch of quality of life improvements.

        It’s a bit of a commitment to learn but it is super rewarding when you get it.

    • Deestan@lemmy.world
      121·
      6 hours ago

      It’s an amazing piece of technology made as a hobby project by the absurdly talented Terry Davis. He gradually lost his world, house and evetually his life to debilitating mental illness, so it makes me sad to see posts like this using “mentally unstable lol” as a punchline.