is os x truly dead?

1. 2020-08-04 at 10:47 PM UTC

   #1
   Wariat Marine/Preteen Biologist
   are we going full circle to the early macintosh os days the old mac os before apple sold out to the masses and became a corporate whore?
   
   https://link.medium.com/X2bTdQXGG8
2. 2020-08-05 at 12:04 AM UTC

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   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
   Try Noppix. A truly amazing little operating system. Slim and full-featured. Browser and everything. You don't even need a hard drive in the computer, it runs entirely in memory. An incredibly useful tool for use in diagnosing and repairing larger operating systems, or even to just use as your main operating system.
3. 2020-08-05 at 12:09 AM UTC

   #3
   Wariat Marine/Preteen Biologist
   how bout chrome os. dont chromebooks not need any memory as its all online saas based?
4. 2020-08-05 at 12:10 AM UTC

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   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]

   Originally posted by Wariat how bout chrome os. dont chromebooks not need any memory as its all online saas based?

   
   This is Debian. A hell of a lot faster.
   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppix
   
   You can even run it directly from a portable USB stick.
5. 2020-08-05 at 12:11 AM UTC

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   Wariat Marine/Preteen Biologist
   linux is hard to use tho. command line interface stuff.
6. 2020-08-05 at 12:12 AM UTC

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   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]

   Originally posted by Wariat linux is hard to use tho. command line interface stuff.

   
   No, it's much like Windows. All point and click.
7. 2020-08-05 at 1:21 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   that article is fucking stupid, it's just complaining about design elements.
   
   having 'inconsistent' or nonstandard design is not going to kill it
8. 2020-08-05 at 3:31 PM UTC

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   Lanny Bird of Courage
   ARM is probably going to break or cripple a lot of the excellent dev tooling that exists on OSX and has been built up over the last decade or so, which isn't fun, but it's been time to switch to linux as the daily driver for a while anyway
9. 2020-08-06 at 12:35 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

   Originally posted by Lanny ARM is probably going to break or cripple a lot of the excellent dev tooling that exists on OSX and has been built up over the last decade or so, which isn't fun, but it's been time to switch to linux as the daily driver for a while anyway

   
   I dunno, most of the toolchains will probably still work, just the compiler and linkers would need to be rewritten