Laurent SansonettiLooks like Apple managed to piss off all the fanbois (even the daring fireball guy!) with the new macOS https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/02/2025reportcardcommentary/
Imho the last great release of macOS was Lion, the downfall started soon after. Wasn't obvious at first for many.
WTL@lrz The push for change for the sake of change really has been a serious issue - and obviously everyone's annoyed by it.
Sure, minor tweaks here and there to the visual style - to improve it, are fine, but lately…
New useful features are welcome, but wandering so far from Apple's own HUD is just … face-palmy on a scale taht's hard to imagine.
@WTL I think some leadership change is in dire need (not just the ceo)
@lrz Agreed.
My wish that will never happen? Apple buys all its shares back, becomes a corporation for social good, then transitions to a non-profit co-op.
(as if)
@WTL My friend have you heard of our lord and savior GNU/Linux?
(Half-joking here; unless you really need a Mac for business purposes, I highly recommend giving it a try, it's a lot better than it used to be.)
@lrz At our Mac user group meeting earlier this month, we talked about running linux on Macs, so it's on people's minds. I use linux all the time (servers), but I think moving for my daily driver would be a rough sell; Final Cut Pro is regular use for me, along with a lot of apps that are just better on the Mac right now.
Migrating would be such a huge project, rebuilding all my workflows … I won't say never, but even thinking about it, wow.
@WTL Yeah if you need FCP you can't escape the Mac unfortunately (I guess you could run it from Linux in a VM but perf-wise it might suck?). But I wouldn't underestimate your abilities to migrate your other workflows, as you already know Linux is highly customizable and there is a great community :) Sometimes we have to stop thinking and just do, like when we run and it gets hard :)
@lrz I admit, I'm curious about it, but I so not willing to put the work in right now. It's a daunting amount of things. Just the video side alone I *know* will be a nightmare of incompatibility. Replacing nearly a hundred apps … 😳
Maybe I'll just stick in Sequoia for a while… 🤣
@WTL yeah I guess you would need to take baby steps there, perhaps keeping a mac around while you get yourself familiar with the new desktop environment… I spend most of my time in Firefox and the terminal so for me it was easy to switch to the Mac then escape it :)
@lrz This crossed my feed earlier today and I've got it in my TBR pile; https://buduroiu.com/blog/exiting-apple-walled-garden/.
@WTL pretty cool! I’m still using an iPhone as I need it for banking but it’s good to hear GrapheneOS seems to support that, at least for OP. Might give it a try. Not sure I would recommend NixOS tho, I think Ubuntu or Fedora are better choices to get started (I use the former on one laptop and it’s pretty great!). But I would definitely not buy a framework computer (my personal opinion but see https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986 for yourself).
Framework supporting far-right racists?
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@lrz Oh, I'd probably stick to a mainline distro; and I agree, Framework's off the table. Ideally, I'd like to stick with Apple computers. Sure, they're overpriced, but the hardware is currently best-in-class.
@WTL I'm unsure if using a Mac as a daily Linux driver is gonna work, I tried asahi a couple years ago on a Mac mini and it wasn't that great (got some weird crashes too). I think it's still a moving target. It's unfortunate as regular PC hardware sucks, there are great laptops fully compatible with Linux these days but they do not compare well to a MBA/MBP. But heh, freedom has a price? :)