X.Org is now pretty much an ex-org: Maintainer declares the open-source windowing system largely abandoned

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[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't buy that for a second. Maybe it's different if you have a Hackintosh, which FYI Apple would hang you for, but Apple products do not give you any freedom. Your system is the way Apple wants it, end of discussion. Customizing Windows is hard enough, but Mac makes it look like a piece of cake.

Linux can run not only UNIX programs, but also most Windows programs, in addition to making it super easy to do pretty much anything you want with it. It's also like 5000x faster than both Mac and Windows, and it's more relevant than UNIX these days, so all the "standard" tools are native to it. Most servers even have a Linux distribution on them, including this website in fact, because it just works best. In the near future probably everything else will fall into irrelevance.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

which FYI Apple would hang you for

They've never sued anyone merely for using Hackintosh, let alone instructing others how to do it. They only sue when you try to sell a hackintoshed machine. Either way, the EU forbids companies from determining what a user can and cannot do with software that they have acquired legally. MacOS itself is free, so that's all good. I wish Apple good luck trying to override the fucking EU.

MacOS runs just fine for me, including on the Thinkpad X220, which is a laptop from 2011. If you buy modern, compatible hardware, you aren't going to have a problem with it. I use both OSes and find that macOS provides a full DE while still feeling lightweight. In GNU/Linux there's an option between lightweight and heavier environments, and I experience stutters with the latter, specifically when I enable compositing on KDE. I'm glad GNU/Linux works for you, though.

You're right about servers, I'm not contending with that. Note that I'm not arguing macOS is an overall better system.