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Windows sucks

MacOS is headed towards suck

If you want a glimpse of the future of desktops : r/unixporn

r/unixporn is full of horribly impractical and poor UX made by bored people who don't really use their computer for serious work. Just tinkerers. Same crowd who post elaborate and artistic BuJo stuff up with to-do entries of "Post up new photos of BuJo to Reddit" and "Get some new pens for BuJo" as tasks. Meta crap.

There are a few tinkerers, a few nice setups, and a lot of younger posters copying things off GitHub for internet points

That last part isn't necessarily bad - it gets people excited about running GNU/Linux. "Come for the DE customization, stay for everything else"?

People customizing their own machines to suit their needs is in fact a good UX as long as they enjoy it

If you take the doors off of a small city car to make it quicker to get in and out of at the expense of keeping thieves and the weather out, is that good UX?

You'd prefer a car that can't be repaired I suppose.

I use Linux, and my whole family drives classic cars and kit cars. My father ran a garage at one point.

My point is that what's on /r/unixporn is predominantly gimmicky nonsense, precious little useful ideas. I'm not blinkered to seeing what's style and what's substance.

I have only been using macOS for a few years now but it’s only been getting better for me. The new control panel thing is great, the M1 is mind blowing and everything mostly just works.

Have been using Linux for 10 years now and while I still respect the work that has gone in, you have to be very forgiving of all the stuff that just doesn’t work right.

but it’s only been getting better for me.

Same.

The M1 does seem pretty great. I wish I could get it in a non-Apple machine, because nothing else about that ecosystem appeals to me.

As a former moderator of r/unixporn (I went by u/fps_co1ncidence) and a longtime ricer of all types of Linux WMs/DEs, I can most confidentially assure you that there is nothing futuristic about what goes on there, just a lot of pointless tinkering and dotfile copy pasting.

The macOS experience is exponentially more polished and Apple will have to screw up phenomenally even from their current position to feel any threat from the FOSS community.

I hear that 2023 is going to be the Year of Linux on the Desktop!

Wake me up when Haiku is the future of desktops.

Hopefully soon, Haiku is awesome

The future, hilarious. The stuff on unixporn is exactly what I was into when I was 15 years old. I had the sickest fluxbox setup, transparent terminal, all kinds of neat widgets, completely customized Irssi themes. It owned.

That was also 20 years ago.

The future of the desktop is Linux.

Tales as old as time.

I don’t know I’m kinda liking windows again.

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