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I’ve been debugging and fixing my Macs on my own (well, with internet help of course) for 20 years. They’re still more flexible than windows imo.

willdr 3y ago
More flexible than Windows isn't exactly a compliment.
- hackmiester 3y ago
  Seriously - this dichotomy is absurd. My workplace has been RHEL for 20 years and has quietly side stepped all of this nonsense. Yes, even after the acquisition.
  - jftuga 3y ago
    What laptops do they issue out to engineers? What issues do you run across?
    - skydhash 3y ago
      The way I use my laptop (plugged and always attached to a monitor, keyboard and external mouse), a desktop would be the most appropriate choice. And no, I don't want to work at coffee shop and a smaller, lighter, cheaper laptop could do if I wanted to be mobile around the house (WFH).
    - hackmiester 3y ago
      We run Dell Latitude, Precision, and sometimes XPS (though I hate those). Pretty much no issues. Dell would rather us run Ubuntu it seems, but it's close enough that RHEL tends to work fine.
jabbany 3y ago
Can you get macos to stop dropping .ds_stores all over the place? (I really do want to know) Because you can get Windows to never drop thumbs.dbs without much hassle.
- gabeio 3y ago
  > Can you get macos to stop dropping .ds_stores all over the place? (I really do want to know) You can prevent it from dropping them on network drives (SMB stores): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209
  - jabbany 3y ago
    I know about this. Unfortunately it is in no way sufficient. I want it to stop dropping these _anywhere_, and I'd be more than happy to give up thumbnail functionality for this. However, afaik the "easiest" way to do this is apparently to bind a hook to listen to all file system writes by everything and then sweep up the junk whenever it is detected...
- sillysaurusx 3y ago
  Haha. The only way I found was to mount a read only file system. The ds store has to be one of the silliest design decisions. But say la vee.
  - keyle 3y ago
    "C'est la vie"
makeitdouble 3y ago
That's definitely an aspect that got worse during these 20 years though, and Apple has no incentives to reverse the trend. If anything, there C* suite explicitly advocates for a more iOS like model all across the board. Parent's comparison point was linux, but I'd argue current macos isn't that far from current windows.

willdr 3y ago

More flexible than Windows isn't exactly a compliment.

hackmiester 3y ago
Seriously - this dichotomy is absurd. My workplace has been RHEL for 20 years and has quietly side stepped all of this nonsense. Yes, even after the acquisition.
- jftuga 3y ago
  What laptops do they issue out to engineers? What issues do you run across?
  - skydhash 3y ago
    The way I use my laptop (plugged and always attached to a monitor, keyboard and external mouse), a desktop would be the most appropriate choice. And no, I don't want to work at coffee shop and a smaller, lighter, cheaper laptop could do if I wanted to be mobile around the house (WFH).
  - hackmiester 3y ago
    We run Dell Latitude, Precision, and sometimes XPS (though I hate those). Pretty much no issues. Dell would rather us run Ubuntu it seems, but it's close enough that RHEL tends to work fine.

jabbany 3y ago

Can you get macos to stop dropping .ds_stores all over the place? (I really do want to know) Because you can get Windows to never drop thumbs.dbs without much hassle.

gabeio 3y ago
> Can you get macos to stop dropping .ds_stores all over the place? (I really do want to know) You can prevent it from dropping them on network drives (SMB stores): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209
- jabbany 3y ago
  I know about this. Unfortunately it is in no way sufficient. I want it to stop dropping these _anywhere_, and I'd be more than happy to give up thumbnail functionality for this. However, afaik the "easiest" way to do this is apparently to bind a hook to listen to all file system writes by everything and then sweep up the junk whenever it is detected...
sillysaurusx 3y ago
Haha. The only way I found was to mount a read only file system. The ds store has to be one of the silliest design decisions. But say la vee.
- keyle 3y ago
  "C'est la vie"

makeitdouble 3y ago

That's definitely an aspect that got worse during these 20 years though, and Apple has no incentives to reverse the trend. If anything, there C* suite explicitly advocates for a more iOS like model all across the board. Parent's comparison point was linux, but I'd argue current macos isn't that far from current windows.