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it's not just the hardware. El Capitan, the latest and greatest, still ships with a stone age Vim 7.3 from August 2010. And we're told not to touch it because /
by vegabook 10y ago
it's not just the hardware. El Capitan, the latest and greatest, still ships with a stone age Vim 7.3 from August 2010. And we're told not to touch it because /usr/bin is sacrosanct. Bunch of add ins doesn't even work properly. Seriously Apple just doesn't seem to care. This isn't hard to fix, and it's an embarrassment compared with Linux.
- hiram112 10y agoI think the solution is to install the Brew version of the Unix-land tools you use, then set your path to favor these over the Apple supplied executables. That's what I did for Emacs, find, bash, etc. and it works fine.
- rleigh 10y agoThis is a workaround, one which I use myself. But I do have a not unreasonable expectation that the base operating system will be actually maintained rather than abandoned. The amount of unmaintained and obsolescent stuff is quite bad, and getting worse.
- wyclif 10y agoI use Brew as well, but look...it's ridiculous for a company that prides itself on out-of-the-box experience to ask people to do this when they could fix it themselves. It's not hard to do. There is simply no reason why Apple can't ship a laptop with the most recent versions of the common userland utilities.