> or more specifically, not so much inexplicable (as actually I think it is quite predictable), but rather it is just exhausting
Weird how I feel the same about all the pro-Apple comments in every Linux thread, specifically to the effect of:
'Unlike Linux, macOS just works. When I was younger I used to play with Linux too, but now I do actually work I just need shit to work and macOS does that', followed by a bunch of outdated, showing knows nothing about what they're talking about shit about PulseAudio.
But when Apple completely and utterly screws up, to the point when you can't even launch non-Apple apps on a machine you paid thousands of dollars for, then people are all too sudden overreacting?
Funny how that works.
> I'm never going to buy a Windows computer. Period. I'm probably never going to switch to Linux either.
Good. And most FLOSS people don't want you to either. What is my problem is when people have crazy high expectations of FLOSS maintainers, but a trillion dollar company screwing up is filled under the category of 'shit happens' so to speak.
Especially considering Apple's a commercial entity that DOES NOT and WILL NOT care about you or what you think and does not need anyone's advocacy as they have a massive marketing budget of their own. Aside from that, there is a feeling in the FLOSS community that Apple's conducting a war on general purpose computing as we know it, which is not an unreasonable thing to be fearful of considering their influence.
> I don't go around shouting my reasons why I won't,
I am glad to hear that, but there's an awful number of your fellow Applers who are doing exactly the opposite.
> But for a certain segment of the non-Apple crowd, yelling consistently about their opinions is an odd recurrence.
Right, which is totally not a thing for the Apple crowd, is that it?
Fair enough, I can see your perspective. Thank you. Although to take my position that I don't plan to switch which OS I use and thus claim that an entire community of developers don't want me, that was a bit of a low blow.
> to take my position that I don't plan to switch which OS I use and thus claim that an entire community of developers don't want me
I meant to say that we don't want you to switch to Linux if you're clearly happy with what you have already, not that we don't want [to have anything to do with] you, sorry if that wasn't clear.
Weird how I feel the same about all the pro-Apple comments in every Linux thread, specifically to the effect of:
'Unlike Linux, macOS just works. When I was younger I used to play with Linux too, but now I do actually work I just need shit to work and macOS does that', followed by a bunch of outdated, showing knows nothing about what they're talking about shit about PulseAudio.
But when Apple completely and utterly screws up, to the point when you can't even launch non-Apple apps on a machine you paid thousands of dollars for, then people are all too sudden overreacting?
Funny how that works.
> I'm never going to buy a Windows computer. Period. I'm probably never going to switch to Linux either.
Good. And most FLOSS people don't want you to either. What is my problem is when people have crazy high expectations of FLOSS maintainers, but a trillion dollar company screwing up is filled under the category of 'shit happens' so to speak.
Especially considering Apple's a commercial entity that DOES NOT and WILL NOT care about you or what you think and does not need anyone's advocacy as they have a massive marketing budget of their own. Aside from that, there is a feeling in the FLOSS community that Apple's conducting a war on general purpose computing as we know it, which is not an unreasonable thing to be fearful of considering their influence.
> I don't go around shouting my reasons why I won't,
I am glad to hear that, but there's an awful number of your fellow Applers who are doing exactly the opposite.
> But for a certain segment of the non-Apple crowd, yelling consistently about their opinions is an odd recurrence.
Right, which is totally not a thing for the Apple crowd, is that it?