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I really miss the days of a rock solid release every ~4ish~ 3ish years - when it was ready. This treadmill yearly release cycle of half finished OS's released
by donatj 4y ago
I really miss the days of a rock solid release every ~4ish~ 3ish years - when it was ready.
This treadmill yearly release cycle of half finished OS's released not because it was a good collection of well built features ready to be released, rather released because it was time for a release, have done nothing but tarnish the OS.
It's still the best UNIX desktop, end of story. The difference between macOS and Windows though isn't as big as it was when I switched 20 years ago, and most of the gap was closed by macOS getting worse and not by Windows getting better. In the current state, given the existence and relative decent usability of WSL2, given the choice today rather than twenty years ago, I may have never switched.
The thing that really gets me is just reliability. In the early aughts when I asked macOS to do something there was no question, it would work. That was the excuse for having far less verbose output of what's happening. You didn't need it because everything worked. Now we still have total lack of output of what's happening, and things just fail silently all the time. It's become a very frustrating OS to try to love.
- pram 4y agoThere was never a 4 year gap between OSX releases.
- mikhailt 4y agoTechnically, they didn't say OS X. They may be referring to Windows.
- SxC97 4y ago>rock solid release They’re obviously not referring to Windows…
- grumpyprole 4y agoNT4 was a rock solid release actually and significantly more stable than anything Apple offered at the time.
- KerrAvon 4y agoif we’re going to make nonsequitur Apple comparisons, we should note that it was compatible with almost no existing programs, unlike Apple’s contemporary offerings
- grumpyprole 4y ago> it was compatible with almost no existing programs I'm not sure where you got this from. When I used it, I didn't observe any compatibility problems. > unlike Apple’s contemporary offerings Apple have a history of breaking third party apps, far more than Microsoft.
- Terretta 4y agoIt wasn't until XP that most people could run popular DOS and Win95-ware on NT.
- hnfong 4y agoThere's probably quite a few games and programs that didn't run on NT, but I haven't actually encountered any of those for NT4. I had great memories playing unreal tournament on some NT4 machines in a computer lab (while we were supposed to be taking lessons). FWIW Win2k (aka NT5) compatibility was great. I lived on it for a while before I completely migrated away from Windows ~2002. For all their flaws, Microsoft took compatibility very seriously back then, I suspect the "incompatibility" part is a bit overblown and didn't affect as many users as we might perceive..
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- antifa 4y ago> The difference between macOS and Windows though isn't as big as it was when I switched 20 years ago This is confusing to read, because windows after 7 had been an astronomical nose dive compared to anything OSX is doing wrong.