Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken

Re:Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken by noobermin on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:00PM (#12686852)

>Sleep absolutely definitely will never work, unless you muck around in the kernel for a bit. Then it works but your wifi cuts off when you're playing music.

Straight up FUD. This isn't the experience at all. Linux had these issues in the mid 2000s, that hasn't been my experience in years.

I agree with the "inconsistency" but I see the same "inconsistency" when I open matplotlib windows (wxgtk I suppose) and they look different, only closing the window fails randomly on OS X and leaves Python interpreter running while I've yet to experience that on Linux.

Then, I'd try to kill the non-responding app, and kill works on Linux, but on macOS, it is inconsistent. And that wasn't ten years ago, that was may be two or three days ago.

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Re:Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken by nikanj on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:09PM (#12686949)

Anecdotes are not data, but if this is no longer true, then I must somehow still be living in the mid-2000s.

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Re:Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken by noobermin on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:16PM (#12687029)

I mean I can't speak for you as I can only speak for my experience and experience of people I know.

You didn't ask for advice, but if I had any, it would be to avoid Ubuntu. Most of the poorly functioning and randomly crashing processes I've seen on Linux was on Ubuntu machines.

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Re:Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken by m_mueller on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:37PM (#12690074)

So what distro is supposed to be the one that 'just works' now? It's really a shame how Ubuntu has degraded, in the 10.4 days I found it worked very well out of the box.

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