| ▲ | buildfocus 9 hours ago | |
The contrast between the steadily shrinking freedoms in Apple-land and the open computing approach underlying all today's the Valve announcements is fascinating. | ||
| ▲ | hoherd 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
I switched from Linux to macOS with osx 10.2.8 because it was a much better unix desktop experience. Lately, more and more I've been feeling a lot like linux is a better desktop experience. Yeah yeah, I'm sure there's a whole line of people who'd like to mock this entire decision, but I assure you that back then, a lot of us would rather use our desktop OS than fix our desktop OSes broken 802.11b, audio, graphics, etc.. And back then, osx shipped x11, and you could `ssh -Y` and `xnest` and all that fun stuff. Plus linux (and other unixes) never left my side for headless work. Top this off with all the Android lockdown, and I feel like linux and FLOSS has maybe never been as important as it is now. | ||
| ▲ | bluescrn 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Yet Valve have still managed to maintain a dominant 'App Store' without having to rely on locked-down platforms. | ||