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The fact that there is an entire _industry_ of tools to patch every little shortcoming speaks volumes of Apple's usability.
by joeframbach 7mo ago
The fact that there is an entire _industry_ of tools to patch every little shortcoming speaks volumes of Apple's usability.
- asdff 7mo agoIsn't this literally linux?
- necovek 7mo agoWith Linux systems, if there wasn't a configuration option to override something, you'd be able to create a fork and still do it. So low level layers in Linux have become flexible enough that you do not need to do it, even if there are opinionated UIs on top.
- deepsun 7mo agoThere's no need, standard settings allow to change a lot.
- asdff 7mo agoThe same levers are on macos too. People are getting caught up someone wrote a tool and released it. The fact that someone wrote a tool and released it shows it's possible and these levers exist.
- deepsun 7mo agoNonono, I honestly tried to set it up on MacOS myself. It's not even close to Linux by configurability. And I'm not talking about some or CLI settings, I'm talking about built-in GUI OS "Settings" program.
- mrkpdl 7mo agoI’d say it says more about the flexibility of the Mac as a general purpose computing platform. It’s a sign of the health of the platform.