Subj : Re: macOS 26
To   : tenser
From : apam
Date : Wed Sep 24 2025 23:15:24

 > That is sort of annoying.  For a lot of the command-line-y type stuff
 > I run, homebrew does me well, however, without all the hassle.

Yeah, I use mac ports for the same thing, it works well. Though I don't
really know how the binaries run (unless they're all signed) I know if
you build from source it's fine, but most of the packages in mac ports
are prebuilt.

 > People also got macOS to book on off-brand x86 hardware when Apple
 > was still Intel Inside(TM).  I never bothered.

Yes, I was really refering to people doing it with apple's blessing. The
hackintosh thing was never approved by apple.

 > Linux is ... ok.  It's got a huge amount of mind share behind it, but
 > I don't think it's all that great.  The kernel is complex and bloated,
 > and while some parts of it are very, very good, other parts of just
 > plain bad.  The overall experience of using it gives the impression
 > that it works best on the developers' laptops.

Yes, I agree with this - and that's just the kernel. I don't like a lot
of whats been happening in the userland space either, a lot of it seems
to be remaking things for the sake of remaking things rather than any
actual improvement, and the remakes are not as polished as the originals.
Sure they will be in time, but why?

 > FreeBSD is ok, but similarly too bloated for my tastes.  OpenBSD
 > probably the closest experience to using 4.xBSD on a timesharing
 > machine back in the day, but always seems to lag behind in terms
 > of hardware and third-party software support.

Yeah, freebsd has a lot in it these days, but it's the best compromise I
think openbsd is nice, but it doesn't do all the things I need. FreeBSD
seems to just work in my case.

 > I still use a Mac as my workstation.  It just works.

:)

Andrew


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