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 -  (3 children)

Mac crashes like 5x more often than Windows and Linux and was always really slow for me. Mac has some specialty areas where it offers optimal performance, but everything else doesn't work well. Not to mention that it's such a locked-down OS that it's barely usable. And despite all of this, it costs 1000x more than every other system. The only thing Apple products have going for them is the brand. It's a complete and total ripoff. I switched to Linux once Microsoft started going in the same direction and forced Windows 10 on everyone.

X11 I know isn't optimal. But despite this, it still manages to work better than plenty of other window managers with algorithms that should outperform it, meaning something's not right with them.

[–]are 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

locked-down OS that it's barely usable

Wrong! It has a full blown real unix system for those that want to use it at that level.

And despite all of this, it costs 1000x more than every other system

WRONG. Nothing is as cheap as a macintosh per multiply-addition from and back to ram. NOTHING. Look at any benchmark of a M1 Ultra Mac Studio 2022:

  • 21 teraflop GPU/APU
  • 800GB/s of memory bandwidth to/from 128GB of memory
  • 20-core CPU, 64-core GPU, and 32-core Neural Engine

Mac crashes like 5x more often than Windows and Linux

Thats so untrue, now I know all you wrote was just nonsense.

The beloved Macintosh made Apple the biggest Company in the history of Earth valued at a $2.5 trillion dollar market cap!:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=aapl&ia=stock

Apple products are the best value for anyone who is not a pauper and values their TIME, not just their money.

That is why Apple is a bigger company than Microsoft.

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

A few Linux distros are "certified" unixes. The rest care more about functionality than conforming to some old standard. Mac itself only went through the effort to get certified due to some licensing issue, it wasn't always so.

Macs are like 5x the price for the same hardware, and both the operating system and the hardware are so restricted that it doesn't even feel like your device. It feels like a school or work computer. Apple barely tolerates you doing anything they don't specifically approve of, and they've tried to get people executed for jailbreaking their devices, and they want you to use ONLY Apple products and will do anything they can to force you to. It's a scam unless you're using it for its niches.

[–]are 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I explained to you, and you do not understand , that to achieve the same level of multiply-adds of large floats per second TO AND FROM RAM, gigabytes of values, a Mac is CHEAPER than any known PC. The reason is Apples memory design and chip design for computation (its used 5 nanometer for years, and in a couple months will offer parts of chip at 3 nanometers).

The fastest laptop from now on will probably always be a Mac.

Poor people make up lies about the worlds largest company in history... Apple. 2.5 trillion dollars built on quality products.