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No one is saying that they don't expertly engineer things, it's just that their design "solutions" look less like actual solutions with every successive product
by DanCarvajal 9y ago
No one is saying that they don't expertly engineer things, it's just that their design "solutions" look less like actual solutions with every successive product launch.
- newman8r 9y agoI appreciate their industrial design, but refuse to use their operating systems. I run linux on all my macs and I'll never go back.
- buildbuildbuild 9y agoI anxiously anticipate the day that Adobe products are Linux native.
- AceJohnny2 9y agoOr even work on case-sensitive macOS partitions. As far as I know, they are the only major mac software to explicitly hold that back.
- selectodude 9y agoThey've finally fixed it after 20 years because APFS is case sensitive. But it's been a lovely way for them to force upgrades to the pay monthly creative cloud if you want to ever move off HFS+.
- AceJohnny2 9y agoThis is not actually the case. APFS can continue to behave as a case-INsensitive partition (check the options when creating a new APFS volume), and remains so for the system partition, I guess specifically to avoid any hard-to-debug compatibility issues.
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- mitchty 9y agoSteam doesn't work on case sensitive hfs or apfs. Ask me how I know. >.<
- Zombieball 9y agoHow do you know? :P
- AceJohnny2 9y agowhich is all the more surprising considering Steam and many of its games work on Linux, which is case-sensitive!
- vortico 9y agoWon't happen, but a number of alternatives have finally been springing up which beat the features of Adobe products. DaVinci Resolve instead of Premier Pro and After Effects to a lesser extent, Unity Web instead of Flash, Darktable instead of Lightroom. And on the Mac OS side, Affinity Designer instead of Illustrator, Pixelmator instead of Photoshop.
- buildbuildbuild 9y agoWow, did not realize that DaVinci Resolve runs on Linux. Blackmagic continues to dominate in broadcast innovation, especially at their price points. Thanks.
- saurik 9y agoI really think if Adobe did that and then released an Adobe-branded desktop Linux distribution they could take over the desktop OS segment for "creative professionals".
- evv 9y agoDoes linux support the hardware well, with regard to tricky-yet-important things like the trackpad, external displays, and power management? I'd much rather run linux on my iPhone, but we're lacking the ecosystem of apps, let alone the mobile development library. I'm hugely biased, but I'd love to have better React Native support on linux for this very reason.
- newman8r 9y agoI have had no issues with my hardware - although it does take a little bit of extra time to get things working (i.e. nonfree firmware required for the wifi).
- scribu 9y agoI used to run Ubuntu on a Macbook Air. The battery lasted significantly longer when I switched back to OSX.
- plasticchris 9y agoIt is possible but requires a lot of manual tuning. It's somewhat surprising how badly it is supported, for example the backlight needs an out of tree module.
- virmundi 9y agoI just bought a System76 and let the Mac languish on my desk. I lost years of my life trying to adjust to that terrible, terrible operating system. It hamstrings everything. Want to install X, well on linux you just apt-get or yum or whatever. Mac has HomeBrew and the other one. Unfortunately the documentation on how to best install that software installer changes, which leads to odd instabilities. Nothings as community supported as a result. Shortcuts are terrible because you have to constantly flex the hands in to hit Mac Key + whatever. Successive releases are buggy. I get betas being unstable, but whole releases have issues for about a month. All this for only an extra $600 per laptop with less ram. Oh, speaking of RAM, OSX sucks at allocating it. Yes, yes, "unused RAM is wasted RAM". So is used swap on a SSD that's soldered to the frickin' frame of the laptop. Nothing says great use of time and resources like replacing the entire upper of the laptop. It's not an AR-15. These parts should be easily removed.
- cptskippy 9y agoI would argue that it's easier to strip an AR-15 to replace the upper receiver.
- virmundi 9y agoThat is true, but I never understand why mix and match uppers and lowers? Why use a DPMS lower with a Sig upper? Makes no sense. Best I can figure is that in a war situation with a gun of questionable stability, swapping parts might give you an advantage in survivability.
- megaman22 9y agoI believe one of the biggest reasons is that nonsensical gun control laws make it difficult to purchase entire rifles in some states, while you can relatively easily buy the components and do the trivial assembly yourself.
- cptskippy 9y agoIt is illegal to sell guns with certain characteristics (e.g. fully automatic fire, select fire) without possessing a Federal Firearms License which carries certain onerous requirements of the seller. It is not however illegal to own or make such guns. Because the AR15 is so modular in nature and parts like the stock and barrel don't dictate if the firearm is automatic, federal laws dictate that the lower receiver is what is actually considered the firearm. Since regulated and unregulated AR15 lowers are mostly identical, and the point at which they diverge is a nonfunctional state, manufacturers can make incomplete or 80% complete AR15 lowers that aren't considered firearms. You can then take these lowers and complete them yourself at home to have an unregistered firearm that you could not otherwise posses without registration.
- MachinShinn- 9y agoAre there still people like you alive? Luckily the inability to procreate will solve this issue soon.
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- 8note 9y agowhere's the engineering though? how much weaker is the glass thanks to these curves. what's the factor of safety? where are they intending the glass to break? how did they use that to minimize the damage to the rest of the device when that happens? is it easier to remove the screen there?