Something horrible must have happened, if macOS users are curling shell scripts from the internet to make their desktops more like Linux.
GNOME has reached maturity and hasn't changed significantly in years, while Apple is busy destroying macOS.
I should applaud their efforts, and I get that much of it is voluntary, but their bugs are numerous, notable and the way they interact with the rest of the universe (both people with accessibility needs, and the wider developer ecosystem on linux) can most accurately be described as arrogant and hostile.
KDE is the bastion of maturity here, and I would agree that it is mature.
I’m not sure how the love for GNOME continues when KDE (while not my personal choice) has clearly been running circles around it since GNOME3 and the gap has only widened since that change too.
Because KDE looks and feels straight out of 2010 compared to GNOME? GNOME just suffers by leaving some (what should be integrated) features to its shitty extension system.
Can you name a UI/UX improvement in desktop design (that KDE doesn't have) since 2010 to warrant this being a negative?
To be honest, I wish the GNOME team completely halted development and exclusively focused on bug fixing for at least a year. For example, Nautilus sometimes leaks memory and get killed by the kernel.
Neither GNOME nor KDE are perfect. We could list out bugs in both for days and still not be done. But they are both usable, and have divergent design that gives users a meaningful choice between which desktop they prefer. They both have strong ideological underpinnings that ignore weaknesses in their tech stack to drive progress forward at any cost. It's not the end of the world for either desktop. Both projects have been plugging away for decades without issue.
You still didn’t answer any question I posed about UX though, since that was what we were talking about and I have levied specific criticisms.
What other questions are there to answer? GNOME is benign, there's a reason why it's the default in mainstream distros like Ubuntu and Fedora.
I see archive.today has the charming old ruby version on the bottom of a 2013 brew.sh page in 2013, when I must first have used it https://archive.ph/lCqJ1
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
Personally, my limited experimentation with Apple AI has left me quite liking it.
The contents of the Exportable’Privacy Report’ are interesting to look through
What's that? You didn't pay Apple's 1200% markup on storage, just so you can have enough room for your actual work after the OS fills your disk with a bunch of bloat? What are you, poor?
Thank you, I might. I never have, the launch was such a mess, I've never looked back and fastidiously turn it all off.
What's changed, for you to say it now works? And what do you successfully and regularly do with it?
There's a hint in the submission you're replying under. Much of it runs on a 20gb local model now. Completely new system.
The problem is Apple intelligence is decent, but not worth 20% of your storage decent.
Frankly, the only company attempting to create websites that only work in Chrome is Google.
The irony here is that Apple tried to make an AI framework to specifically avoid this, but I think the future will simply be 10 copies of Qwen 0.6B running on my computer.
You missed the second sentence of my comment.
I can imagine Siri AI being useful on iOS because of its deep integration to the OS. But for MacOS there’s better tools
I'll probably use it at some point. I don't have any interest in installing apps from, or paying money to OpenAI or Anthropic.
(And I pay for iCloud+ already.)
You need to consider the other 99% of users that use Apple products.