Apple M3 Ultra - Hackdot

Re:Apple M3 Ultra by internetter on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:08AM (#43267544)

This is more about "average" end user software, not the type of software that would be running on a machine like this. Yes their applications fell off, but if you're paying for 512gb of RAM apple notes being slow isn't the bottleneck

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by diggan on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:26AM (#43267800)

Lack of focus on quality of software affects all types of workloads, not just consumer-oriented or professional-oriented in isolation.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by gjsman-1000 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:41AM (#43268026)

Nah, if I ever wrote an article about the software crisis on the Linux desktop, there’d be flames here making Apple’s issues look small.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by diggan on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:43AM (#43268061)

It'd be an interesting flame war in the comments, if nothing else, go for it! I'm happy to give plenty of concrete evidence why Linux is more suitable for professionals than macOS is in 2025 :)

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by hedora on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:52AM (#43269114)

Try copy pasting bash snippets between any linux text editor and terminal.

Now try the same with notes on a mac. Notes mangles the punctuation and zsh is not bash.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by rafram on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:59AM (#43280246)

Notes is a rich-text editor. If you don’t want smart quotes, use a plain-text file in TextEdit, or Sublime or Vim or whatever.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by internetter on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:39PM (#43269702)

Omg I despise the fact that there's n competing GUI standards on linux, zero visual consistency.

I love diversity in websites, and apps for that matter, but this isn't diversity, it is the uncanny valley between bespoke graphic design and homogeneity.

Say what you want about SwiftUI, but it makes consistent, good looking apps. Unless something has changed, GTK is a usability disaster.

And that's before I get into how much both X11 and wayland suck equally.

There's so much I miss about Linux, but there's so much I don't

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by WD-42 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:05AM (#43268423)

People are paying the richest company in the world for their software crisis on Linux.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by knowitnone on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:08PM (#43270092)

if you do write something, please seperate enterprise, developer, end user, embedded/RT because they all have different requirements.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by internetter on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:44PM (#43269777)

> Lack of focus on quality of software affects all types of workloads, not just consumer-oriented or professional-oriented in isolation.

The apps are developed by different teams. MacOS apps are containerized. Saying macOS's performance is hindered by Notes.app is like saying that Windows is hindered by Paint.exe. Notes.app is just a default[0]

[0]: though, I dislike saying this because I always feel like I need to mention that even Notes links against a hilarious amount of private APIs that could easily be exposed to other developers but... aren't.

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