Modern “Hackintoshes” show that Apple should probably just build a Mac tower

Re:Modern “Hackintoshes” show that Apple should probably jus... by 21 on Monday May 01, 2017 @11:54AM (#14238602)

It's funny that you say that an Adobe CS user is "captive", but you don't consider yourself "captive" to the superior Linux hacker tools. Ie: why is the creative user captive, but you are free.

If you wanted to move to macOS/Windows you couldn't, because you wouldn't bear their inferiority when it comes to hacker things, so aren't you also captive?

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Re:Modern “Hackintoshes” show that Apple should probably jus... by peatmoss on Monday May 01, 2017 @12:01PM (#14238684)

Easy, because I could and occasionally do run my tools on Windows and macOS. And from some of the responses here, it's clear that some people do prefer that.

But, if I wanted to buy the latest Adobe Creative Suite and run it in Linux, I have no real recourse.

So I guess in that sense, my statement could be made more precisely as: Obligate users of such commercial software suites as Adobe Creative Suite are captive users of either Windows or macOS.

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Re:Modern “Hackintoshes” show that Apple should probably jus... by 21 on Monday May 01, 2017 @01:29PM (#14239549)

Said obligate users _could_ migrate to Gimp or Audacity.

But they don't, for the same reason you stay on Linux. The fact that you can run bash on Windows is not such a huge difference if for other reasons you don't.

They don't want an inferior experience, even if they could tolerate it if strictly necessary.

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Re:Modern “Hackintoshes” show that Apple should probably jus... by peatmoss on Monday May 01, 2017 @01:41PM (#14239686)

> Said obligate users _could_ migrate to Gimp or Audacity.

Perhaps—and I've certainly met professionals that claim to use those tools. However, I've met others who claim (rightly or wrongly) that Gimp and Audacity are not perfect substitutes for other commercial packages.

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