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Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by hospitalJail on Friday December 01, 2023 @09:12AM (#38486859)
Really goes to show the demand of exclusive MacOS software.

To be fair, if something is on Mac, it is usually on Linux. Windows is a bit different.

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Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by yakubin on Friday December 01, 2023 @10:51AM (#38488163)
> To be fair, if something is on Mac, it is usually on Linux.

That's true only for CLI apps. My most frequently used GUI apps on Mac:

- MailMate

- Affinity Photo

- ACDSee Photo Studio

- NetNewsWire

- ApolloOne

- Textual

- Transmit

- iA Writer

None of them are available on Linux. Most of them are Mac-only (i.e. no Windows version either).

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Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by n9 on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:51PM (#38490631)
that's a pretty wild assertion. I'm immediately thinking of music software: 99% of all plugins, the #1-4 DAWs, drivers for 2/3 of all hardware, at least... not on linux.
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Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by n9 on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:52PM (#38490640)
Also... Preview is not available on any other platform and is, imo, the single best executed application of all time.
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Re:RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD by Xerox9213 on Friday December 01, 2023 @02:27PM (#38491061)
Absolutely. It's the only PDF editor that holds a candle to Acrobat Pro.
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