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Programmer, Skateboarder & Aspiring Musician.

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I can’t speak for Flatpak as I haven’t tried it but nixpkgs are beautiful to work with and configuration of my system has become completely reproducible in a clean format.

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Yeah there are some issues with compatibility, I’ve found a couple of apps that error on my Mac.

How does it compare to Flatpak?

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My most recent version of this was symlinking SSL Certs before building Nix packages, a simple task I just kept forgetting to and was then greeted by errors.

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The one with all the wind on that god awful little mud hill?

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I tried MacPorts once because I don’t like the name of Homebrew but it’s weirdly slow in comparison

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Well you still have to check all the boxes, you pay for the license the same way you can study and take certain exams but have to pay for the certificate.

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This is just a clever safety feature so that those that don’t need it don’t accidentally mess around with things, if they’re curious they can look up what it does.

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They actually heavily target Developers with MacBook Pro, they even have a whole conference every year dedicated to developers.

Also I think fighting with macOS is the problem, there are a few walled off things however it’s not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

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I’ve connected my Mac to 4k and 1440p displays and had no issues, in fact it was a pleasant experience.

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I find I have plenty of freedom on a Mac

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Honestly you can use a Mac perfectly well without ever signing into iCloud + you don’t get prompted to sign in ever really unless you click on a feature that requires iCloud like the iCloud tab in settings.

You can even use the apps like mail without ever signing into iCloud.

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The only place I’ve ever seen ads on my MacBook is in the App Store, the iCloud section of settings and on Apple’s website, all of which it makes sense for the adverts to exist. Oh wait I may have seen one as a precursor to a YouTube video but sans ad-blocker that is standing regards of OS.

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Yeah I think most people have experienced an iPad or iPhone but not a Mac so they assume it’s the same walled garden. What they don’t realise is Mac has been a solid choice for power users, developers and creators of all varieties for over 10 years, this means the community and app selection is honestly ridiculously good.

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These features are for consistent stability. The more space/less space option under display is more than enough for most use cases.

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As in my other comment, the display menu in settings has options titled more/less space which increase or decrease the size of text and windows on screen, this is accounted for.

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Linux is unix-like, macOS is certified unix.

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To add with Linux being unix-like not certified unix, macOS doesn’t need to implement anything in Linux fhs style.

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Maybe if you noticed a lot of developers run Mac then you’d see their technical opinions are usually worthwhile.

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Well no I mean I’ve tried the exact issue you were complaining about and it looked great

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I’ve seen MacBook’s last for 8+ years and remain performant.

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I personally love those features as a developer, I don’t need every type of port pretty much just one would be enough in a perfect world we would use wireless to interface all peripherals and media items like cameras

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I don’t understand when people say macOS is inflexible, I find it incredibly flexible, stable and efficient.

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Nah I was quite literally born with the name mac… Literally on my birth certificate that way.

I agree JS doesn’t require as much technical knowhow.

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That’s more of an architecture shift as opposed to we don’t support it because fuck you, also Rosetta means most x86 Mac apps will be able to run on the m-series chips.

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