• finley@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    Maybe they want an Apple laptop because they want something that’s nice, runs major software, and doesn’t force the user to spend half their life in the command line.

    People like this remind me of jerks driving around in lifted trucks and cars with loud exhausts calling everyone else a “pussy”. There’s nothing but insecurity that drives attitudes like this.

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        There’s also a branding problem IF you want “normie” widespread adoption.

        If the go to image of a Linux user is the fedora m’lady guy saying “so that’s you’re distro,huh”

        Or the furry tallsocks wall of text customize to the n-th degree person,

        The normie will never align.

        You might like that, from a social perspective, but even saying “your knowledge is outdated” is funny because most folks have little to no knowledge of their Mac either, they just know it “just works” for their mainline usage.

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        6 hours ago

        Of course it doesn’t. But if it makes you feel better to make things up about someone you disagree with, I can’t stop you.

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      runs major software

      You’d probably want to go for Windows in that case? There’s plenty of software that doesn’t have a MacOS version.

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          How many people choose Xcode over other IDEs though? Or are there some things that you can only do in Xcode?

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        6 hours ago

        Lol, advocating windows. I guess it could get worse than the OP’s post.

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          I was just comparing it to MacOS, and using it as a reply to the comment that MacOS “runs major software and doesn’t force the user to spend half their life in the command line”, which I interpreted to mean an OS that a mainstream user would be comfortable with. Windows fits that description better than MacOS does. I’m not advocating for using Windows instead of Linux or anything like that.

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            4 hours ago

            People who buy Macs are typically not buying it because they’re gamers.