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From my "crushingly dull obligatory tech history" in BSD Cafe wiki:

❮ Former Mac user (1992–2014; AppleSeed programme member 2009–2014). The GUI of OS X 10.10 Yosemite drove me away from Apple. I gradually switched from OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks to PC-BSD. Then TrueOS, then FreeBSD-CURRENT. In the midst of all that, something with FreeBSD in September 2012 … probably toying with 9.0 on a PowerPC iMac with failing graphics hardware. Not because I was a glutton for punishment (like, the horror of a command-line loader, and the certainty that hardware was failing) – because there was nothing good to be done with the Mac, and I was curious about non-Apple alternatives to Microsoft Windows.

Essentially: KDE Plasma on FreeBSD-CURRENT from around 2015 until 2025 … ❯

#Apple #Mac #TrueOS #FreeBSD #KDE #Plasma #Linux #Windows

@ermo

The PC-BSD challenge was, as you can see from the roadmap, not only doing the FreeBSD part but doing the various add-ons that PC-BSD/TrueOS had, as well.

http://jdebp.info/Softwares/nosh/roadmap.html

#GhostBSD seems to be the spritual successor to that. So as long as it has ZFS on root, and no bloody GRUB, I'm going to attempt it.

In an ironic twist, in 1.41 several of the PC-BSD services are now disabled, for security reasons.

#PCBSD #TrueOS #nosh

@scottjenson I read the page, then boosted, without knowing who you are. Then checked your profile. Oh, my.

I was a huge fan of Macs, the HIG in particular, for more than twenty years.

Thank you. Thank you.

Apple's lie about Yosemite – no, the title bar of Safari (my favourite software) did NOT present the title – was the thin end of what I perceived to be unacceptable degradation of the Guidelines. Driven, I suspect, by management, not by the human end users.

When the audiences at and after WWDC simply smiled, applauded, and lacked the bravery to call out the spoken lie – a URL falsely described as a title, whilst the new Safari was on-screen – I knew that the slide downhill would be irreversible.

Fandom ended. Mavericks was the end of the line, for me. I switched to PC-BSD.

#Apple #MacOSX #Mavericks #Yosemite #Safari #PCBSD #TrueOS #FreeBSD