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Still haven't forgiven Apple for removing the 1/8" headphone jack from iPhones either.
I had a craptop I put Linux on and I like it, unfortunately I need to run tax software once per year so I need a Mac or Windows computer around.
At least macOS ships with python, bash, emacs, gcc, gdb, etc.If you buy the right motherboard and video card, getting macOS running isn't much harder than getting Linux running. After that, I can't think of much downside of macOS over Linux. What does Linux do that is so much better than macOS other than (potentially) the install experience?
If you are that much of a power user to these tools, why not use Linux as your OS?
HeadSet saysAt least macOS ships with python, bash, emacs, gcc, gdb, etc.If you buy the right motherboard and video card, getting macOS running isn't much harder than getting Linux running. After that, I can't think of much downside of macOS over Linux. What does Linux do that is so much better than macOS other than (potentially) the install experience?
If you are that much of a power user to these tools, why not use Linux as your OS?
If you buy the right motherboard and video card, getting macOS running isn't much harder than getting Linux running.
I thought that macOS was only available with Apple hardware. I was thinking there is no point to pay for that if are running open source software that can run fine on Linux.
I thought that macOS was only available with Apple hardware.
The polite way would be to let people mount an iPhone as a device with a filesystem you can browse from Linux or any other OS. You can do that with Android, though of course Android is Google spyware which no one should ever use because it betrays all your data to Google/NSA.
When you plug in your iPhone to a Mac and go look in the filesystem, you see /private/var/vm has been mounted, but it contains only an opaque 4G swapfile. Your photos are in there somewhere, but Apple does not want it to be easy for you to get your own data.
Apple wants you to go through a gate which they control and which they can charge you to open, or leave shut if you refuse to submit to their total control over your data.
OK, they do allow you to email out photos from the photo app, one at a time, knowing that this is also an effective wall between you and access to your own data. Are you really going to email yourself your 1,000 photos, one at a time? They are betting you won't. And they're probably right.
Still haven't forgiven Apple for removing the 1/8" headphone jack from iPhones either.
Not quite willing to throw out my iPhone and MacBook yet, but as soon as they die, definitely going to buy one of these phones:
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
And probably one of their laptops as well.
But only as soon as I'm am certain that they do not restrict access to my own data in any way.