pretty outdated meme, to say the least
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The reason MacOS is seen as a working computer is because if anything breaks about it, it isn't considered a computer anymore by Apple, it is considered e-waste.
I guess I don’t get this attitude about macs. I switched to mac when I was traveling a lot in 2007 and saw how portable they could be compared to other laptops. It’s almost 2025 and I just bought my third one last year. My kids are still using my 13 year old MBA for homework, and the hardware is absolutely solid.
Edit: Lol, downvote reality. My favorite pastime.
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I absolutely cannot figure out what to do in order to fix an Apple computer when it’s bugging out. Is it a part? The OS? Something external? How am I supposed to diagnose this fucker with so little information? Windows is rapidly heading down the same road. Linux will remain the final bastion of those who fix their electronics themselves
I absolutely cannot figure out what to do in order to fix an Apple computer when it’s bugging out
Buy a new one, duh
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macOS is Unix. Everything can be logged and reported through the terminal if you want more debugging information. There are also power tools you can download that give you better GUI-based control over a myriad of things.
Though it’s worse now than it was ten years ago. Apple’s software has been suffering under Tim Cook and it’s probably not going to get better until he’s gone.
Indeed I think the "Yes/No" are the wrong way around on the Apple part of the flow.
Also, why else do you think they call them geniuses. Only geniuses could possibly fix your smooth metal rectangle.
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Don't worry everyone, it's like the Sorting Hat, it takes your preference into account. Just say "not TempleOS" and you'll get into Linux.
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Do you like to throw money at your problems and more money when you're told: 🍎
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Do you have a nonconsensual submissive kink with a love for sadistic roughly forced updates destroying what you were working on and ads shoved deep up your home directory: 🪟
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Do you like free stuff and can RTFM: 🐧
why RTFM when you can
- Be the manual (own distro)
- forum (Linux mint fr fr epic gaming free robux baby gronk rizzed up livvy dunne sigma) i use this
sorry for the brainrot
Working computer? Apple? Tell that to my dad. He destroys a Mac in about two years. Bought his house 7 years ago, and three dead macs in the basement.
Could you imagine if he used a PC?
Once, when I started a new job, I had to use an Apple laptop until my Linux laptop came. While the Apple laptop was better than I expected, it was still one of the most annoying weeks of my life. The most unbearable part was the keyboard. I could never tell which hotkeys used ctrl and what used alt, and it just wasn't worth the effort of remembering the differences or remapping them.
But besides that, after using Linux for 15 years, the very basic levels of configurability that the Apple window manager provides just made it look like a child's toy compared to Linux. In Linux, there are so many different window managers that it becomes very easy to customize an environment that works perfectly for you. With Apple, you just get what you're given and if it's bad or doesn't work well for your habits, then tough luck, you're stuck with it anyway. So in that respect, Apple computers don't work at all - you work for the computer, whereas it should be the other way around.
But at the end of the day, what it really comes down to is the fact that people just like what they're used to, and it sucks to change. What's best is a matter of preference; none is better objectively better than the other.
Except Windows. Fuck Windows.
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What kind of Bizzaro world reverse order is this nonsense? Mac is worse than Windows is worse than Linux.
Copium needs to justify spending $800 for 2tb of SSD or $400 for 8 GB of ram like if we still were in the early 2010s
This meme does seem to be from the early 2010s, to be fair.
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Macintosh OS is the most fucked up UNIX I've ever used. Worse than Solaris 8
Wtf is templeOS and why do Ineed to use it
The Wikipedia page is your best friend here. In short was an operating system written from the ground up by a brilliant, bipolar and occasionally psychotic man who was named named Terry Davis. It is important to mention when talking about Terry Davis to note he stalked several women and he probably took his own life.
It was Terry's belief that a way to speak to God was through computers. So he built an operating system from the ground up to act as God's temple. It's actually a pretty nifty achievement truth be told and an interesting view into the mind of someone suffering from psychosis. It is not suitable for every day use, but people have taken the foundations of his OS and ran with it making equally interesting operating systems.
people have taken the foundations of his OS and ran with it making equally interesting operating systems.
Do you have some examples? I'm curious
First off, a word of warning. TempleOS and any fork I've seen does not do hardware monitoring. Meaning the OS has no clue what the CPU temp is or any other temp or power usage. Modern hardware should be able to protect itself from this, but it's a fuck around and find out kinda deal. These operating systems can fry your hardware, it's very unlikely but not impossible.
That said, the best one is TinkerOS. It's more or less the same as TempleOS but for newer hardware. Most other forks we're more or less hobby projects by various people and I don't think there's much documentation on those if at all. I'd never use any of them as a daily driver though, as neat as they were.
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cope and seethe. Haven't had an issue with either my debian desktop nor my debian laptop in the 5 years I've been running it on them. Sounds like you're just mad your OS constantly advertises paid services to you, and mine doesn't.
cope and seethe
Are you going to call someone a "cuck" next? 😂
Not unless they want me to be their bull
Listen, it's a funny hyperbolic way of saying "stay mad"; don't let sex-negative reactionaries have all the fun phrases
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Well if your definition of "working" is "can run all the important programs and game" then anything thats not windows or linux wont work.
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Where is BSD? I feel like there are still steps before you reach TempleOS.
Not relevant anymore, TempleOS now has more users than BSD.
As it was written.
Working computer - >Mac
Should have been:
Do you have more money than brains?->Mac
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Fuck this, I'm doing this for shit and giggles. ->Mac
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Too true. MacOS is the one place you can get a UNIX toolchain in a stable environment. If something works on my Mac, it works on my coworker’s Mac. If something works on Ubuntu but you’re using Nix… Uh, YMMV.
I love Linux, but if you’re gonna use it as a desktop OS, you pretty much accept that you now have a part-time job keeping up on Linux news to deal with the fact that each component of your system is in a perpetual state of “deprecated support for The Old Way, and experimental support for The New Way”.
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Do you want a working computer? Yes
To play games? Yes -> Windows
|--- No
|--- Will you just browse the internet and maybe work with some sort of Office document? Yes
|------ chromeOS
Do you like being spied on and having your data sold?
=> Windows or ChromeOS
Do you have too much money?
=> Mac
Do you have a decent set of working brains?
=> Linux
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I tried to be unbiased, but failed. Apple and Linux should be switched.
I don't know about macOS, but from experience, neither Linux nor Windows are actually "just works". Although it will depend on distro, I definitely have different experience on Arch and Manjaro than say Mint users. Mint worked for me well, although older dependencies have also killed "just works" a few times.
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