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0 pointsacomjean4y ago0 comments

Linux and open source are always inefficient with its limited development resources. There are how many distros. Desktop systems. How many video editors? All free, and all in need of some development polish.

There is no one dominant firm/distro. This is an OS that can’t agree on a way of distributing applications across distributions: flatpack, snap…

It interesting That every M1 machine comes with an OS these people people are enthusiastically looking to replace with something better.

I think the issue for me with this is that it’s a lot of volunteer effort going to support a single machine vendor that is very wealthy and seems disinclined to help out.

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sharikone4y ago

They are breaching a walled garden. And they are looking at a system with capabilities unseen before. And Apple has its prestige. I can totally understand the excitement that goes into this.

Of course it's like working in front of an armed cannon that can be fired at you at any moment. Apple can very easily perform a lock in the seriousness of which no desktop computer has ever seen before, given they control the hardware down to the transistor level.

istingray4y ago

I can also understand and respect the excitement that goes into this. In terms of the Linux meta though, it's like sneaking into a farmer's field to plant crops for them.

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