Re:macOS in Svelte
by somenewaccount1 on Saturday August 14, 2021 @09:13AM
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Ive installed Linux on dozens of machines, wifi works out the box on about 8/10. Bluetooth (after driver download) on about 1/3 without doing more troubleshooting.
On Mac? Both work 100% of the time on every one I've purchased.
That's the difference. 100% vs 80%. If my software deployments broke 20% of the time at work, I would be fired.
And? Wifi works on 100% of the laptops I've installed Linux on out of the box because I select laptops with parts that Linux supports. Just like Apple makes their OS work for their components.
Linux supports far more hardware out of the box than either MacOS or Windows.
Re:macOS in Svelte
by somenewaccount1 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @06:46PM
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> Why do people pay the premium for this UI Apple forces you to use?
People pay the "premium" because they do not have to make any effort in selecting which laptop will work out of the box. Effort takes time, time is money. In general, people would rather pay the money upfront, rather then pay with their time later.
I have no idea what a "custom WiFi icon" is but I'm guessing you bought something with prebundled apps. That is irrelevant to the discussion of consistency in one OS versus another (but of course important in the buying process but that's another matter).
>or they're using a different protocol then the one I have at home.
You are making a pretty bad case for Mac as Apple is the one that creates and enforced all kinds of "standards" instead of using what everyone else agreed upon years ago. Apple doesn't implement the full WiFi standards, they use their own standards for everything from chargers to media streaming protocols to connectors.
There's a lot of good to be said of Mac but it using the same protocols as everyone else is not one. Unless you ban everything else and live in an Apple world but then standards are completely irrelevant anyway.