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It's sort of insane to switch to an almost completely unrelated operating system because of such a trivial feature as a screensaver. It doesn't download those

It's sort of insane to switch to an almost completely unrelated operating system because of such a trivial feature as a screensaver. It doesn't download those screensavers unprompted, you have to actually select them in the System Settings. It's hard to believe that anyone who thought that a Mac was the right computer for them could so easily switch to Linux on hardware which has a great number of unsupported features. I know that Hacker News is not representative of the real world, but gosh, stories like this are crazy.

arcanemachiner 1y ago
It's possible that they were looking for a reason to do it anyway, and this was just the straw that broke the camel's back. I agree with you though: From the outside, this does seem like a strange response to the issue.
black_puppydog 1y ago
That reads a lot like complaining that the author just didn't hear the gospel...
fsckboy 1y ago
>It's hard to believe that anyone who thought that a Mac was the right computer for them could so easily switch to Linux on hardware which has a great number of unsupported features his story makes complete sense in the space in which he wrote it, and therefore you are writing complete nonsense. sounds to me like he was already familiar with unix style computing, and he didn't get a mac originally because it supported something that linux didn't, like most users. "with the Mac it just works" is a 30 or more year ago marketing message still, this was the last straw for him, as he literally said, enough was enough.
bigyabai 1y ago
It's surprisingly common, if you ask around. I owned a Mac for a few years, daily drove it, and the first-party advertising eventually pushed me over the edge to GNOME. Been using Linux for ~6 years now, every time I log onto a Mac the issue is only worse. You might not be able to conceptualize this being an issue. Half the Mac owners I've known in my life eventually left MacOS over an arbitrary software default that impeded their workflow.
ghusto 1y ago
I'm fairly sure this was just the straw that broke the camel's back. There's a fair amount of arse-hatery in MacOS that by itself won't make you switch, but I can easily imagine it mounting up past intolerability. In fact, I don't need to imagine it, because I'm nearly there. The iPhone is even worse, because at least on MacOS I can fix most the design decisions via secret settings in the terminal.

arcanemachiner 1y ago

It's possible that they were looking for a reason to do it anyway, and this was just the straw that broke the camel's back. I agree with you though: From the outside, this does seem like a strange response to the issue.

black_puppydog 1y ago

That reads a lot like complaining that the author just didn't hear the gospel...

fsckboy 1y ago

>It's hard to believe that anyone who thought that a Mac was the right computer for them could so easily switch to Linux on hardware which has a great number of unsupported features his story makes complete sense in the space in which he wrote it, and therefore you are writing complete nonsense. sounds to me like he was already familiar with unix style computing, and he didn't get a mac originally because it supported something that linux didn't, like most users. "with the Mac it just works" is a 30 or more year ago marketing message still, this was the last straw for him, as he literally said, enough was enough.

bigyabai 1y ago

It's surprisingly common, if you ask around. I owned a Mac for a few years, daily drove it, and the first-party advertising eventually pushed me over the edge to GNOME. Been using Linux for ~6 years now, every time I log onto a Mac the issue is only worse. You might not be able to conceptualize this being an issue. Half the Mac owners I've known in my life eventually left MacOS over an arbitrary software default that impeded their workflow.

ghusto 1y ago

I'm fairly sure this was just the straw that broke the camel's back. There's a fair amount of arse-hatery in MacOS that by itself won't make you switch, but I can easily imagine it mounting up past intolerability. In fact, I don't need to imagine it, because I'm nearly there. The iPhone is even worse, because at least on MacOS I can fix most the design decisions via secret settings in the terminal.