Apple previously announced that macOS Sonoma will be released this Tuesday, September 26. The free software update includes many new features and...
TL;DR: macOS Sonoma launching on September 26 brings desktop widgets, Game Mode for gaming performance, web apps in the Dock, new screen savers, Safari profiles, and more features to compatible Macs.
Damn. It’s almost like it’s a different operating system and people should be allowed to enjoy things. MacOS is about the only thing the majority of Apple computer users will use in their personal device. Let them enjoy new things.
I say this as a Linux user myself. Comments like yours don’t add anything of value and only make people less likely to give Linux a try.
Sure. Now get grandma to buy a Linux machine and deploy a distro. Or even any creatives that don’t want to bother with sudo everything. Each ecosystem fad their pros and cons.
I’ve used Linux as my main OS for most of the last 16-17 years and switched full-time to Mac a year ago.
It’s absolutely foolish to compare the two OSes.
Does Linux give you a lot of flexibility? Sure. But I can trash my Mac laptop’s install and be back up and running exactly where I left off with a restored-from-backup install in an hour.
Can you get that with a homebrew setup where you archive BTRFS/ZFS snapshots elsewhere? Sure. But I’m at the point of my life where I simply do not care anymore to fuck with it.
The extra $500-1000 or whatever is a completely meaningless amount of money for an out-of-box experience that “just works” without fiddling with stuff.
Admittedly, NixOS fixes this with a single config file that can rebuild your system in minutes, then the built-in backup tool can restore your files. So yes, absolutely. That being said, that's limited to a few declarative distros