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Re:Apple Begins High Sierra Automatic Rollout by Joeri on Saturday November 18, 2017 @12:09PM (#15729776)
This isn’t the first time on this merry-go-round. Snow leopard to lion was a downgrade in as many ways as it was an upgrade. I also remember reluctantly trading in NT4 for W2K. OS release quality isn’t a linear progression, it’s a sine wave.
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Re:Apple Begins High Sierra Automatic Rollout by bitexploder on Saturday November 18, 2017 @04:39PM (#15730860)
And it is a flat wave :)

Every time something improves something else gets worse.

Except in Linux and maybe mobile OSes. Latest Android or iOS is objectively better, even with things that regressed.

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Re:Apple Begins High Sierra Automatic Rollout by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday November 18, 2017 @10:18PM (#15732061)
Linux has had its share of regressions: KDE 3-> KDE 4 and the accompanying destructions of amazing apps like Amarok 1.4. Gnome 2 -> Gnome 3. The period where Ubuntu tried to replace everything with half-baked Mono apps, etc.
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Re:Apple Begins High Sierra Automatic Rollout by bitexploder on Sunday November 19, 2017 @12:57AM (#15732499)
I guess it just depends. I never use any of that. i3wm hides whatever current mess there is in Linux GUI land for me quite nicely.
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