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I don’t get why engineers let a broken setup hinder them for long periods of time and don’t do a simple google search and spend five minutes fixing their machin

I don’t get why engineers let a broken setup hinder them for long periods of time and don’t do a simple google search and spend five minutes fixing their machine. None of your problems you listed are things “broken” and Apple is ignoring, shit happens and sometimes you need to fix it. If you can’t be bothered, take it to the Apple store or give it to your work IT person.

smt88 9y ago
I used desktop Linux for 10 years, and finally I switched to Windows in 2015 because I was tired of "a simple google search and spend five minutes fixing their machine". At a certain point, you want things to just work out of the box. You want to outsource the mental effort and time required to "just search and fix".
- jsjohnst 9y ago
  Yes, that’s a great argument for Linux, but much less so for macOS. Apple and Microsoft are roughly comparable these days (and that’s not a compliment to either), but after many years of “next year is the year of the Linux desktop”, Linux is still a pain to install on most consumer hardware in comparison to either macOS or Windows.
  - icebraining 9y ago
    Nope, Linux is much easier to install on most consumer hardware compared to macOS. The latter is only easier on the minority of models made by single vendor.
    - jsjohnst 9y ago
      > The latter is only easier on the minority of models made by single vendor. And it's only "legal" on the minority of models made by a single vendor. That doesn't make it any less relevant that for the intended environment for it to be installed on, it's far easier.
      - icebraining 9y ago
        So if only Linus would threaten you with a lawsuit for installing it in a model not designed explicitly for it, then Linux would be a much better system than it is today, right?
        jsjohnst 9y ago
        If there was a single high end mainstream laptop on the market which had comparable full hardware support of everything on the machine as macOS does to a MBP, then you could say something, but alas there isn’t and likely never will be.
mi100hael 9y ago
Please, enlighten me as to how I can keep a MBP from freezing when I open the lid. Or from corrupting my Time Machine backups. Or how I can fix the fact that their applications like Disk Utility and the App Store suck. :eyeroll:
- jsjohnst 9y ago
  As the two issues (outside your subjective opinions on apps) you mentioned don’t happen to anyone I know, the answer is fixing whatever you broke obviously... :eyeroll:

smt88 9y ago

I used desktop Linux for 10 years, and finally I switched to Windows in 2015 because I was tired of "a simple google search and spend five minutes fixing their machine". At a certain point, you want things to just work out of the box. You want to outsource the mental effort and time required to "just search and fix".

jsjohnst 9y ago
Yes, that’s a great argument for Linux, but much less so for macOS. Apple and Microsoft are roughly comparable these days (and that’s not a compliment to either), but after many years of “next year is the year of the Linux desktop”, Linux is still a pain to install on most consumer hardware in comparison to either macOS or Windows.
- icebraining 9y ago
  Nope, Linux is much easier to install on most consumer hardware compared to macOS. The latter is only easier on the minority of models made by single vendor.
  - jsjohnst 9y ago
    > The latter is only easier on the minority of models made by single vendor. And it's only "legal" on the minority of models made by a single vendor. That doesn't make it any less relevant that for the intended environment for it to be installed on, it's far easier.
    - icebraining 9y ago
      So if only Linus would threaten you with a lawsuit for installing it in a model not designed explicitly for it, then Linux would be a much better system than it is today, right?
      - jsjohnst 9y ago
        If there was a single high end mainstream laptop on the market which had comparable full hardware support of everything on the machine as macOS does to a MBP, then you could say something, but alas there isn’t and likely never will be.

mi100hael 9y ago

Please, enlighten me as to how I can keep a MBP from freezing when I open the lid. Or from corrupting my Time Machine backups. Or how I can fix the fact that their applications like Disk Utility and the App Store suck. :eyeroll:

jsjohnst 9y ago
As the two issues (outside your subjective opinions on apps) you mentioned don’t happen to anyone I know, the answer is fixing whatever you broke obviously... :eyeroll: