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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by lanyard-textile on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @08:22PM (#43406909)
Oh whatever :P Don’t be condescending about a mindset you don’t experience yourself.

I ran debian as my daily driver for like half my life; now I’m on mac and never have to worry about my friggin wifi driver.

Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by liquid_thyme on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:52PM (#43407842)
You can both use macs and criticize Apple to be and do better. Why would they change for no reason? I've heard this myth about companies listening to customers :)
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by dingnuts on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:43PM (#43407786)
I haven't had a problem with my Wi-Fi in Linux since 2006, what are you on about?
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by rasmus-kirk on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @04:55AM (#43409603)
Yeah, I'm running PopOS woth minimal issues and have been doing so for 5 years. The only issues I have is that they built it on a jank stack of Gnome, but they're fixing that at this moment.

It sounds like a lot of the "I used to use Linux, but nothing worked" crowd are either previous Arch-users (no shit you had to do everything manually) or older folks.

Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by underdeserver on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @05:00AM (#43409637)
You're squarely in the minority, mate.
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by kraf on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @07:02AM (#43410437)
Nah he's not. Stuff has been pretty stable, impressively so. Especially if you keep to certain hardware options which Apple users also accept.
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by Defletter on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @05:52AM (#43409949)
Congrats? I've personally experienced driver issues on my laptop and desktop, both from the hardware being too new for the kernel (or at least the version being used by that distro), within the past two years. And this is LMDE, not some fringe one-man fork.
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by Aachen on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @06:35AM (#43410236)
If we want to pile anecdotes, it just works for me as well. The most recent driver problem I had was Windows, needed to preload something during the installer to get it to recognise hard drives in proxmox working if I remember correctly, and that's not even speaking of printer problems on Windows compared to the seamless integration they now seem to have on Debian (or is my desktop environment responsible for that? Not sure, I'm not super deep into Linux stuff)
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by kraf on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @07:00AM (#43410426)
It's been many years since I had my last driver issue. I find that impressive considering how many different platforms Linux has to run on.

Have you noticed how bad the Docker experience is on Macs though, after how many years?

Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by cowsandmilk on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @07:51AM (#43410732)
Not sure how that’s the fault of MacOS
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by fsflover on Monday March 24, 2025 @10:17AM (#43461406)
Whose fault is it? Also, as opposite to the Linux wifi driver?
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by aiisjustanif on Sunday March 23, 2025 @01:56PM (#43454544)
I have never had an issue with WiFi drivers as an Arch and EndeavourOS user for 6 years now. And for the last 3 years my Framework Laptop does just work as my daily driver.

I think it is unjust to share strong opinions about previous issues that Linux distributions had without recent evidence.

Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by lanyard-textile on Saturday March 29, 2025 @08:24PM (#43519975)
That’s fair :) Guess I’m just scarred.