| ▲ | steve_adams_86 2 hours ago |
| Haven’t they actually done a relatively good job in this regard in many ways? I can still use my 12 year old MacBook Air. It’s not super current and not all apps work, but it’s actually still a decent Apple experience. Same with our old iPad. They kept it updated way longer than I expected. |
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| ▲ | pudgywalsh 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Haven’t they actually done a relatively good job in this regard in many ways? No. Can't run current versions of any apps including Chrome, Edge, and Safari. Meanwhile the hardware is perfectly fine and could run a supported version of Windows or Linux. Call me when Apple has a "LTSC" version of their OS. (Spoiler: they won't, ever. Supporting Apple in an enterprise is nothing short of a nightmare.) |
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| ▲ | cosmic_cheese 9 minutes ago | parent [-] | | This is partially on third-party devs' shoulders. There are community-maintained backports of Chromium and Mozilla for old versions of macOS, which means it isn't strictly impossible, but Google and Mozilla just don't bother and cut off compatibility earlier there than on other platforms. It's even possible to build Mac apps to run on everything from OS X 10.4 (2005) through macOS 27 (2026) across PowerPC, Intel, and Apple Silicon in a single binary. See XLD[0], which does exactly that. [0]: https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html |
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| ▲ | bigyabai 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > It’s not super current and not all apps work That's an enormous concession, relative to Windows or Linux. |
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| ▲ | mschuster91 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > That's an enormous concession, relative to Windows or Linux. Windows yes, but Linux... no, at least if it's open source. Closed source apps that compile fully static, these tend to be stable and Just Run in my experience... but open source apps? Good luck trying to bring these to even compile 10 years afterwards without going through an insane dance with Docker... | | |
| ▲ | doodlesdev an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | While that's absolutely correct, you're arguing with a strawman. Take a look at the original quote: > I can still use my 12 year old MacBook Air. It’s not super current and not all apps work, but it’s actually still a decent Apple experience.
The point is I can run the latest Linux distributions and software on a 12 year old computer with no issues whatsoever.You might be able to do that in Windows, if you bypass TPM and CPU requirements or if you stay with Windows 10 extended updates. You won't be able to in macOS without OpenCore Legacy Patcher and a lot of faith in your God of choice. | |
| ▲ | serf 4 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | >Closed source apps that compile fully static, these tend to be stable and Just Run in my experience... but open source apps? Good luck trying to bring these to even compile 10 years afterwards without going through an insane dance with Docker... who cares? when a closed source app fails the door is shut for good on self-remediation, unless you want to reverse engineer/break the law. when an open source app fails to compile you can choose to put the time in to get the thing working. it's not a shut door, it's just a long path. | |
| ▲ | cavem0nkey 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Couldn’t agree with this more. Stuff I wrote 25 years ago for NT4 still actually works on windows 10 without a recompile. The Linux situation reminds me of unix back in the 90s even across distributions. |
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| ▲ | select1 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | On Linux, there aren't 'apps' that normal people want. Basic things like 'functional 1080p/4k Netflix' and 'commercial software' aren't really a thing. | | |
| ▲ | fragmede 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Netflix works, just not 4k. Blender and Davinci Resolve say there's commercial software, just not actual Photoshop. | | | |
| ▲ | bel8 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That's another goalpost. That's because DRM doesn't go well with Open source. | |
| ▲ | bigyabai 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Correct, you have just successfully identified the reason why Windows exists. Well done! |
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