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Windows sucks MacOS is headed towards suck If you want a glimpse of the future of desktops : r/unixporn

by rc_kas 4y ago

not_alexb 4y ago
Wake me up when Haiku is the future of desktops.
- _chu1 4y ago
  Hopefully soon, Haiku is awesome
- speed_spread 4y ago
  [flagged]
bergenty 4y ago
I don’t know I’m kinda liking windows again.
hammyhavoc 4y ago
r/unixporn is full of horribly impractical and poor UX made by bored people who don't really use their computer for serious work. Just tinkerers. Same crowd who post elaborate and artistic BuJo stuff up with to-do entries of "Post up new photos of BuJo to Reddit" and "Get some new pens for BuJo" as tasks. Meta crap.
- kastagg 4y ago
  People customizing their own machines to suit their needs is in fact a good UX as long as they enjoy it
  - hammyhavoc 4y ago
    If you take the doors off of a small city car to make it quicker to get in and out of at the expense of keeping thieves and the weather out, is that good UX?
    - smeagull 4y ago
      You'd prefer a car that can't be repaired I suppose.
      - hammyhavoc 4y ago
        I use Linux, and my whole family drives classic cars and kit cars. My father ran a garage at one point. My point is that what's on /r/unixporn is predominantly gimmicky nonsense, precious little useful ideas. I'm not blinkered to seeing what's style and what's substance.
- Liquix 4y ago
  There are a few tinkerers, a few nice setups, and a lot of younger posters copying things off GitHub for internet points That last part isn't necessarily bad - it gets people excited about running GNU/Linux. "Come for the DE customization, stay for everything else"?
threeseed 4y ago
The future of the desktop is Linux. Tales as old as time.
shaggyfrog 4y ago
I hear that 2023 is going to be the Year of Linux on the Desktop!
Gigachad 4y ago
I have only been using macOS for a few years now but it’s only been getting better for me. The new control panel thing is great, the M1 is mind blowing and everything mostly just works. Have been using Linux for 10 years now and while I still respect the work that has gone in, you have to be very forgiving of all the stuff that just doesn’t work right.
- alwillis 4y ago
  but it’s only been getting better for me. Same.
- blep_ 4y ago
  The M1 does seem pretty great. I wish I could get it in a non-Apple machine, because nothing else about that ecosystem appeals to me.
pram 4y ago
The future, hilarious. The stuff on unixporn is exactly what I was into when I was 15 years old. I had the sickest fluxbox setup, transparent terminal, all kinds of neat widgets, completely customized Irssi themes. It owned. That was also 20 years ago.
reayn 4y ago
As a former moderator of r/unixporn (I went by u/fps_co1ncidence) and a longtime ricer of all types of Linux WMs/DEs, I can most confidentially assure you that there is nothing futuristic about what goes on there, just a lot of pointless tinkering and dotfile copy pasting. The macOS experience is exponentially more polished and Apple will have to screw up phenomenally even from their current position to feel any threat from the FOSS community.

Windows sucks MacOS is headed towards suck If you want a glimpse of the future of desktops : r/unixporn

by rc_kas 4y ago

Windows sucks MacOS is headed towards suck If you want a glimpse of the future of desktops : r/unixporn

not_alexb 4y ago

Wake me up when Haiku is the future of desktops.

_chu1 4y ago
Hopefully soon, Haiku is awesome
speed_spread 4y ago
[flagged]

bergenty 4y ago

I don’t know I’m kinda liking windows again.

hammyhavoc 4y ago

r/unixporn is full of horribly impractical and poor UX made by bored people who don't really use their computer for serious work. Just tinkerers. Same crowd who post elaborate and artistic BuJo stuff up with to-do entries of "Post up new photos of BuJo to Reddit" and "Get some new pens for BuJo" as tasks. Meta crap.

kastagg 4y ago
People customizing their own machines to suit their needs is in fact a good UX as long as they enjoy it
- hammyhavoc 4y ago
  If you take the doors off of a small city car to make it quicker to get in and out of at the expense of keeping thieves and the weather out, is that good UX?
  - smeagull 4y ago
    You'd prefer a car that can't be repaired I suppose.
    - hammyhavoc 4y ago
      I use Linux, and my whole family drives classic cars and kit cars. My father ran a garage at one point. My point is that what's on /r/unixporn is predominantly gimmicky nonsense, precious little useful ideas. I'm not blinkered to seeing what's style and what's substance.
Liquix 4y ago
There are a few tinkerers, a few nice setups, and a lot of younger posters copying things off GitHub for internet points That last part isn't necessarily bad - it gets people excited about running GNU/Linux. "Come for the DE customization, stay for everything else"?

threeseed 4y ago

The future of the desktop is Linux. Tales as old as time.

shaggyfrog 4y ago

I hear that 2023 is going to be the Year of Linux on the Desktop!

Gigachad 4y ago

I have only been using macOS for a few years now but it’s only been getting better for me. The new control panel thing is great, the M1 is mind blowing and everything mostly just works. Have been using Linux for 10 years now and while I still respect the work that has gone in, you have to be very forgiving of all the stuff that just doesn’t work right.

alwillis 4y ago
but it’s only been getting better for me. Same.
blep_ 4y ago
The M1 does seem pretty great. I wish I could get it in a non-Apple machine, because nothing else about that ecosystem appeals to me.

pram 4y ago

The future, hilarious. The stuff on unixporn is exactly what I was into when I was 15 years old. I had the sickest fluxbox setup, transparent terminal, all kinds of neat widgets, completely customized Irssi themes. It owned. That was also 20 years ago.

reayn 4y ago

As a former moderator of r/unixporn (I went by u/fps_co1ncidence) and a longtime ricer of all types of Linux WMs/DEs, I can most confidentially assure you that there is nothing futuristic about what goes on there, just a lot of pointless tinkering and dotfile copy pasting. The macOS experience is exponentially more polished and Apple will have to screw up phenomenally even from their current position to feel any threat from the FOSS community.