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This should carry a (2009) in it's headline. After Snow Leopard it went downhill with reliability and stability, but got new exciting features: iOS compatibili

by rurban 5y ago

This should carry a (2009) in it's headline. After Snow Leopard it went downhill with reliability and stability, but got new exciting features: iOS compatibility, yeah. No more x32 support, yeah! No more OpenGL support, yeah! New filesystem without identifier normalization, yeah! No more /use/local/bin/. No more kernel drivers. Mail and mDNSResponder constantly crashing, and every new release the list keeps growing. The new Windows.

black_puppydog 5y ago
I thought the whole point of using windows is an insanely long backwards compatibility and future support window? Hence the name windowS? :)
acdha 5y ago
> Snow Leopard it went downhill with reliability and stability … Mail and mDNSResponder constantly crashing If this isn’t just hyperbole, try a clean reinstall after a hardware diagnostic. This isn’t normal. (/usr/local/bin is fine, are you perhaps referring to Homebrew changing its preferred location?) You can argue about 32-bit support but given that the platform first went 64-bit in 2003 it’s kind of hard to say you didn’t have advanced warning. Similarly, the writing has been the wall for OpenGL since Microsoft stopped favoring it on the most popular platforms in the 1990s. The model doesn’t fit how modern hardware works and it’s not surprising that they don’t want to keep supporting a standard which the industry increasingly doesn’t use.
dev_tty01 5y ago
I'm guessing you are not an actual user of the system you are criticizing since you are wrong on so many points. Not my experience at all. Many of your criticisms are simply false. usr/local/bin is fine. OpenGL is an antiquated system that is a poor match to modern GPUs and it too was deprecated for a long time. mDNSResponder did have some issues but we have been past that for many, many years. Never had issues with Mail that a reindex command wouldn't clean up. APFS has been nothing but an improvement in my experience. 32 bit support was deprecated for over a decade. Sometimes it is time to move on. As far as kernel drivers, yes there are still some 3rd party kernel drivers, but the (ongoing) transition to system extensions running in user space is absolutely an improvement.
- plorkyeran 5y ago
  Homebrew moved out of /usr/local on apple silicon and I've seen people assume that this was because of macOS changing things so that /usr/local was no longer usable. It wasn't; Homebrew just wanted to stop using /usr/local and they saw this as a good time to do the migration.
- aasasd 5y ago
  Indeed, only absolute losers would run old games and apps that use OpenGL, when there are new shiny ones.

by rurban 5y ago

black_puppydog 5y ago

I thought the whole point of using windows is an insanely long backwards compatibility and future support window? Hence the name windowS? :)

acdha 5y ago

> Snow Leopard it went downhill with reliability and stability … Mail and mDNSResponder constantly crashing If this isn’t just hyperbole, try a clean reinstall after a hardware diagnostic. This isn’t normal. (/usr/local/bin is fine, are you perhaps referring to Homebrew changing its preferred location?) You can argue about 32-bit support but given that the platform first went 64-bit in 2003 it’s kind of hard to say you didn’t have advanced warning. Similarly, the writing has been the wall for OpenGL since Microsoft stopped favoring it on the most popular platforms in the 1990s. The model doesn’t fit how modern hardware works and it’s not surprising that they don’t want to keep supporting a standard which the industry increasingly doesn’t use.

dev_tty01 5y ago

I'm guessing you are not an actual user of the system you are criticizing since you are wrong on so many points. Not my experience at all. Many of your criticisms are simply false. usr/local/bin is fine. OpenGL is an antiquated system that is a poor match to modern GPUs and it too was deprecated for a long time. mDNSResponder did have some issues but we have been past that for many, many years. Never had issues with Mail that a reindex command wouldn't clean up. APFS has been nothing but an improvement in my experience. 32 bit support was deprecated for over a decade. Sometimes it is time to move on. As far as kernel drivers, yes there are still some 3rd party kernel drivers, but the (ongoing) transition to system extensions running in user space is absolutely an improvement.

plorkyeran 5y ago
Homebrew moved out of /usr/local on apple silicon and I've seen people assume that this was because of macOS changing things so that /usr/local was no longer usable. It wasn't; Homebrew just wanted to stop using /usr/local and they saw this as a good time to do the migration.
aasasd 5y ago
Indeed, only absolute losers would run old games and apps that use OpenGL, when there are new shiny ones.