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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Honestly, macOS is going the same way too. They really got their act together with the hardware but the software is so much worse. This last round seems to have absolutely no QA. It’s like they outsourced the entire process.

So guess who just built a Linux PC?

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 3 points 8 hours ago

I haven't kept up with the latest minor updates to Tahoe, but I've been staying back on Sequoia because while Tahoe looks very pretty and I'm glad to finally see a potential end to Material design, the readability issues with Tahoe are legitimate and rolling back to Sequoia has been a breath of fresh air.

I jumped over to the Mac world from Linux only this year (although I still keep my X260 with LMDE around) but perhaps it was the worst time to do so - I'll see how I feel once Sequoia support ends and whether Asahi Linux would be more viable.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Completely agree, MacOS is turning into a dumpster fire. They keep adding features nobody asked for, and making the whole thing more bloated and flaky in the process.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Well they have that fancy new SoC and all it’s horsepower they get to be irresponsible with now.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm really amazed that it's been half a decade now and nobody has made a comparable SoC using ARM or RISCV tailored to Linux.