Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
by kerkeslager on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:28PM
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Pretty much, yes.
You're talking about problems that "piss you off", whereas Linux has problems that not only piss you off, but completely stop you from being able to do what you need to do.
It's easy to talk about these things in abstract terms, but frankly I've run across two problems with Mac ever that I actually had to fix in order to do what I needed to do:
1. Get "gcc" to point to "gcc" instead of clang.
2. Get Valgrind to work (which problem is admittedly still not solved).
The problems that I've had to fix in Linux often start immediately upon booting up for the first time and attempting to connect to wireless, and end with me emailing documents to a Mac to print them because I needed the document printed within an hour, not after 8 hours of tinkering.
You're talking about problems that "piss you off", whereas Linux has problems that not only piss you off, but completely stop you from being able to do what you need to do.
It's easy to talk about these things in abstract terms, but frankly I've run across two problems with Mac ever that I actually had to fix in order to do what I needed to do:
1. Get "gcc" to point to "gcc" instead of clang.
2. Get Valgrind to work (which problem is admittedly still not solved).
The problems that I've had to fix in Linux often start immediately upon booting up for the first time and attempting to connect to wireless, and end with me emailing documents to a Mac to print them because I needed the document printed within an hour, not after 8 hours of tinkering.