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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Apple update the kernel instead of outdating hardware/software?
Date: 17 Mar 2015 19:13:25 GMT
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On 2015-03-17, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <me9p5o$ce2$2@dont-email.me>, Electric Comet
><electric-comet@mail.invalid> wrote:
>
>> > ..and have had a substandard user experience with extremely limited
>> > software choices, both in number of options and in
>> > quality/performance.
>> 
>> Be specific, name a few things
>
> photoshop and the rest of the adobe creative suite, lightroom,
> microsoft office, final cut pro, imovie, 1password, itunes, ios device
> support, garmin gps device support, other hardware device support,
> along with zillions of other apps that will never, ever run on linux.
>
> also, driver support for hardware is often a no-go on linux, sometimes
> buggy open source crap which has zero support if anything goes wrong.
>
> linux is great for servers, but for a desktop system it's horrible.

Yes. And it's even a pain in the ass for servers, due to the nature of
open source, where problems often result in cryptic errors written by
teenage open source developers. One example (out of many I have
encountered in my career) is a version of rsync in a production RHEL
installation where the only error generated was literally:

You don't exist, go away!
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far)
[sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(463) [sender=2.6.8]

We encountered this error, of all times, during automated deployment of
code to a production server. *clap* *clap* *clap* Thanks so much! Well
done, sirs! You just gotta love when Linux developers insert witty,
cryptic, unhelpful error messages into their code, offering no
assistance what-so-ever in determining what actually went wrong so you
have to go read source code while you are working on mission-critical
server infrastructure. Really productive use of time there. 

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