iMac G3 – The Mac that saved Apple

Re:iMac G3 – The Mac that saved Apple by MisterTea on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @10:36AM (#25570712)

Over-automation of the OS is what lead to this big mess we see. Truly simple interfaces and methods are bulldozed and replaced by massive Rube Goldberg contraptions which are supposed to make it "easy" for joe sixpack with a few clicks or taps. The reality is even johnny electron, genius programmer, now has hard time navigating the hellish maze of interconnected binaries full of black-box state when it inevitably collapses under its own weight.

Delete it all.

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Re:iMac G3 – The Mac that saved Apple by lisper on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @10:40AM (#25570750)

And replace it with what? Linux and Windows are not much better in this regard.

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Re:iMac G3 – The Mac that saved Apple by phendrenad2 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:22AM (#25579140)

If only it were possible to create a new OS. But sadly, any competitor to Linux would face an uphill battle from people asking the honest question "why not use Linux?"

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Re:iMac G3 – The Mac that saved Apple by lisper on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @02:10AM (#25579373)

I actually think it would be possible to use Linux as a core and build a reasonable userland on top of it, just like MacOS did with Darwin. But it would be a boatload of work.

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Re:iMac G3 – The Mac that saved Apple by pjmlp on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @03:03AM (#25579614)

Cough, Android and ChromeOS.

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Re:iMac G3 – The Mac that saved Apple by lisper on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:32AM (#25583061)

Yeah, like those. But my dream is an OS that is usable for non-hackers while preserving the Linux ethos of leaving the user with ownership of their machine. That does not currently exist AFAIK.

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Re:iMac G3 – The Mac that saved Apple by pjmlp on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:49AM (#25583232)

I don't see that ever happening, because too many just keep rebooting UNIX instead, as seen by all GNU/Linux based phone attempts.

And the companies that have the power to drive it into newer territories, like Google, don't care about providing yet another UNIX clone, just reducing the kernel development costs.

Had Inferno been a success, I bet we would also see blog posts on how to dump Limbo, replace ACME with vim, and have the GNU userland on it.

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Re:iMac G3 – The Mac that saved Apple by lisper on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @12:06PM (#25583410)

> I don't see that ever happening

I don't either. But a boy can dream.

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Re:iMac G3 – The Mac that saved Apple by pjmlp on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @03:02AM (#25579610)

Because cloning UNIX is more than done already.

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