Name one thing you can't do with a Mac that you can do with Linux

Name one thing you can't do with a Mac that you can do with Linux

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install gentoo

Support freedom.

Install it on any hardware.

Be less gay.

Not spend money.

Use ext4 for your system
Have the freedom to upgrade your hardware at any time, however you like

Customize whatever the fuck you want to however the hell you want.

What can you not do though?

Give me an example

Filesystems. Mac fs support is: HFS, Fat/exfat, udf, and read-only ntfs. That's all TRASH.

Write to any part of your root partition. Even root user doesn't have total access.

Suffer over xorg config problems.

get rid of that ugly bar at the bottom

The fuck is this from?

>Name one thing you can't do with a piece of hardware that you can do with a piece of software

To be a man

Thank you for that valuable contribution.

What is a hackintosh?

crow's blood

i haven't seen it but it's probably not good because it's an akb48 show

Why are you comparing a computer brand to an operating system?

Try it on AMD.

MacOS then.

Apparently that makes sense though because it only likes to work on its own hardware.

Listen to music.

>AMD
There are custom kernels for AMDfags

PCI-E passthrough with any available hypervisors

Way too much to list

Putting Linux on a used Macbook Air I bought taught me one thing about my first experience with Mac OS in a long time which is: never, ever, ever use it. Ever. It's a total nightmare of locked down, candy painted trash. If I remember right even root didn't have full privileges. The aptly named iToddlers aren't just a meme.

Have more than 16GB of RAM

View and edit the source code

Yea, and they fucking suck

get it for free.

> shots_blown.jpg

>even root didn't have full privileges
You obviously know nothing about MacOS, if it wasn't clear enough from your description.

Be straight.

right click

Where did this meme come from? I right click all day long.

Upgrade hardware.

Uninstall something and have it be gone forever (iTunes)

Schedule my own updates, and stall them indefinitely

Not have a window pop up in a walled garden network

Plug n play most hardware

Custom kernels

you can't upgrade the hardware of a kernel

Well I learned about both their hardware (the nightmare of their locked down UEFI/BIOS) - which has come a long way now, thanks to a lawsuit they lost and about MacOS with the joys of Apple ID (their keys to your soul).

Those two things alone are all I needed to know to never want to learn more or use it again.

Macs from the 2000s only had one fucking button...you had to hold control and click to simulate a right click.

Apple very literally thought more than 1 button would confuse its customers. This didn't change until the wired mouse with the mini trackball on it (which technically had 0 buttons) and the went to gestures with the magic mouse (also no buttons).

Mind you, you could always just buy almost any other mouse (like we all do anyway) but Macs came standard with really awful 1 or no button mice.

Mac users it should be noted definitely didn't help though as they always insisted the original Mac mouse was the best (even the terrible hockey puck shit) just on the basis of being an Apple made mouse.

Basically Apple decided Apple users were too fucking dense to understand the function of a decent mouse...and Apple users proved them right. It became legendary meme from there and didn't stop until Apple made a better mouse (still arguably made for retards, but vastly superior regardless) but by that time the meme was set in stone.

Sounds like a logical decision to me, having exactly 2 buttons the second of which is completely different from the function of the first is just weird

Use up to date dev software. Use gnu progs. Keep your privacy.

Name one thing

It should also be noted that until the iPad/iPhone thing went full tilt must have (around 2009-2010 it all super blew up...think first iPad/3rd gen iPhone era) the Mac users consisted of only 2 kinds of people.

1. Artists, musicians and graphic designers whom Apple catered heavily towards at the time in order to bring a professional clientel and keep a good reputation.

2. People who were utterly incapable of using Windows without getting a fuckload of viruses. Be it 7, vista, so or earlier the vast bulk of people using Macs were people that were honestly too fucking dumb to function with any other computer...and Linux flat out scared the shit out of them.

So artsy types and fucking drooling morons were apples only computer market for decades. Its not apples fault honestly (the dumbass Apple vs pc ads didn't help though) but that was just how it was...

Artists, fuckwits and iPods. That's all Apple had.

It wasn't until much later they became 'so innovative'. After that even normal people started buying the hype (and by extension macs) and thus the 'Macs are really great and innovative' meme happened.

Before that it was just an internet machine for regards or a work machine for proto sjw art fags.

And that is the story of Apple memes.

You're welcome you dumbass kid. Btw Sup Forums is 18 and older so you should piss off of you didn't live through this kid.

Jackie Chan

shit

switch DE

Rice it up and attract a faggot tranny from Sup Forums so you can suck their cock.

I can't run perf on OS X. How the fuck do I profile my programs on OS X?

See also...
Also if you think 1 button is great your the kind of virus prone,phishing scam bait dumbass Macs were always made for. The kinda person who needs a walled garden ecosystem because you can't be left to your own devices without fucking your shit up.

You ARE the Mac memes my friend...and I'm glad your found an OS so overprotective even you can't Fuck it up.

1. Cry because there are no drivers.
2. Cry because you have no port to plug in the hardware that has no drivers.
3. Cry because you have aids from taking dick in the ass.

Fork Mac OS.

what

>Apple very literally thought more than 1 button would confuse its customers.
Learn your fucking computer history.

It was an intentional design choice with the Lisa because GUIs in an operating system were nonstandard.

Everything had a contextual menu, contextual menus would pop up in really assbackwards locations based on your mouse X and Y position on the screen. Some things had a right click, other things didn't, and some of them required a right click on a right click. It was a mess, so when Apple made their iteration of that, they removed the second button and placed it under a Control + Click, adjusted the contextual menus and moved all of the normal navigation up to the top of the screen.

>'Macs are really great and innovative' meme happened.
They were, they completely altered the tech landscape

They may not have invented concrete or the process of treating wood but they made houses where the all the plumbing just worked without you ever having to look at it, the rooms of the house being arranged in a way that made sense and wiring that didn't require a knowledge of advanced circuitry for you to maintain and make sure it didn't burn your house down

They had a profoundly logical approach to designing things and if it weren't for them we probably would have had a generation of people making abhorrent needlessly convoluted user interfaces a la Windows

They may not be for you but seriously be glad they happened. Most people have no context for just how much they were able to save us from the trainwreck Microsoft was leading us towards.

>Also if you think 1 button is great your the kind of virus prone,phishing scam bait dumbass Macs were always made for. The kinda person who needs a walled garden ecosystem because you can't be left to your own devices without fucking your shit up.
None of that is relevant to having one mouse button. Like at all.

And just because it's simpler doesn't mean it's simpler to a disadvantage, that's essentially my argument for Apple in a nutshell.

>It wasn't until much later they became 'so innovative'. After that even normal people started buying the hype (and by extension macs) and thus the 'Macs are really great and innovative' meme happened.

Logic, Final Cut, Avid, and Aperture were industry standard digital authoring tools well before Macs became consumer products.

Apple had deep pockets in California being right next to Hollywood. Literally all digital movies in 2004-2008 were using FCP or Avid.

Have my anus secured

>1. Cry because there are no drivers.

Or just grab a repo from GitHub containing the exact driver that you need.

You can't install Mac OS on Gaming Consoles. You can't install Mac OS on ARM laptops. You can't build Mac OS from Scratch.


The entire point of Linux is to be Unix-like, and Free. Mac OS is just a nice laptop OS, and that's it. It can't do what Linux does.

That's actually all falsehood. They were good at marketing and tweaking existing designs to be normie friendly at the expense of feature sets. For example iOS has no user accessible file system (unlike android) specifically for the purpose of not confusing the end user.

Used to work applecare...if only you could see internal company memos...

Either way the systems are always locked down not for stability but for idiots. The less users can access the less they can potentially Fuck up. There's nothing to learn if there's nothing to access.

Put it this way...when I was doing osx support the vast majority of my calls were people who thought we have tech support for Microsoft office...the rational was always the same 'but I bought it at the Apple store!' as if Wal-Mart gave repairs and services for vacuums.

My favorite slide during our mandatory refresher training literally addressed this by stating 'explain it to the customer politely and with simple language as if speaking to a child'

Apple didn't invent shit...they just locked down other inventions so normies would be comfortable in using them.

Apple is the opposite of Linux. In Linux you have total control at the cost that you may fuck up...in osx and iOS you have zero control so YOU CANT Fuck it up.

Its just tech for retards. Sure it's great for those who need it but let's face it, an Apple innovation just means removing a function. Like say a headphone jack.

And it's always been like that. Every new product is a matter of what did they remove this time...so grandma doesn't get confused.

Yes but as soon as they became more mainstream after the iPad they ditched almost all of those programs and features. They just made that shit to appeal to professional usage...when it wasn't relevant it got phased out.

Install it on an ARM/MIPS device.

cure cancer

look guys be salty all ya want but facts are facts...and the fact is that apple just dumbs shit down for the masses...I never said it was a bad thing per se, just that it is what it is.

hell there were even android tablets BEFORE the ipad (they were technically last to the game) but apple made it idiot proof by removing features until it was usable by anyone. its just idiot proof. that neither good or bad...its just the way it is.

Change a DE.

view and modify ANY part of the source code

use other desktop environments besides the default one

compile your own kernels tuned to your specific hardware

completely disconnect from the apple botnet

run as many virtual instances as you want. macOS is a giant pain to virtualize

AND THE BIGGEST OF ALL:
YOU CAN RUN LINUX ON ANY PIECE OF HARDWARE YOU WANT. YOU AREN'T FORCED TO BUY A SHITBOX WITH NO DAMN PORTS TO RUN IT.

hey think of it this way...Making complex electronic devices so dumbed down that senior citizens, the technilogically inept and sub 75 IQ niggers can easily use them IS A BIG ACCOMPLISHMENT.

And nobody else has ever done it properly before. That's pretty innovative!

Look at the source code of the kernel that's running your system.

>Either way the systems are always locked down not for stability but for idiots. The less users can access the less they can potentially Fuck up. There's nothing to learn if there's nothing to access.
Well that's one reason Apple software is simple, but it's still simple with a purpose. That doesn't mean it's inherently bad.

Other companies tried their hand at making MP3 players and nobody used them because they fucking sucked. Then Apple came along and realized that you just need a scroll wheel, like 2 other buttons and a jack you can connect to some headphones and you're good as gravy. It did everything other MP3 players did and it just did it with out all the weird, tacky and unnecessary baggage.

>with simple language as if speaking to a child
Yes, because there's a massive market for people that want to use computers to send e-mails and watch movies and don't want or need to know the infrastructure and all the ways it can fuck up.

If you drive a truck for a living you're not a moron because you have trouble diagnosing why the engine is making a clicking noise.

>Apple didn't invent shit...they just locked down other inventions so normies would be comfortable in using them.
Did you read my post? I didn't claim they invented all the nuances of computer science, I said they made cohesive systems that worked for what they were worth and had an enormous market of people.

Are you familiar with the term pseudo-intellect? Because that's what you are. You're talking like you're over people's heads but you're just operating on instinct and your arguments fall apart when you're asked to actually justify them.

Waste hours or days fucking about trying to get the GUI resolution, refresh rate, or acceleration working.

Oh and also on a Mac you can't experience Windows tearing either since it has a good GUI unlike linucks

Again, just because it's simple doesn't mean it's simple to a disadvantage.

Driving a car that has 3 stick-shifts that you operate with your toes isn't a better car because it's hard to use.

>Use gnu progs
you can do this on mac what the fuck
>have two buttons
>the one on this side does x
>the one on the opposite side does the opposite of x
wew unintuitive as heck

It doesn't do the opposite. There's no opposite of "click on target"

It opens up a contextual menu, it seems weirdly ubiquitous to have an entire mouse button dedicated to doing this

>replying to retards
wtf
btw I'm definitely not the retard in question

name 1 thing that actually matters

right click

i can install linux legitimately even tho i'm real poor

You don't matter

>Mac = a computer
>Linux = a computer operating system
>all the autistic fucks that are still going with this thread
>stupid fucking people will be the death of us all

lol blown the f*ck out

He meant MacOS. You grandmaster autist

Do you suffer from such extreme tunnel vision as an effect of your autism that you can't infer the most basic bits of information no matter how consequential?

If there were a stop sign in front of a moving freight train but it had the last letter crossed out would you go plowing headfirst into it?

Use your brain you fucking shoe

right???? all these freaking retards who can't understand subtlety or context. Our race is doomed

Making it as small as possible, turning off magnification, and moving it to the secondary monitor works well enough

not spend one thousand dollars

nothing, mac os is Unix as much as linux

Run a commercial load balancer (Xen or Kemp, for example)

Nobody said it was bad dumbass. Just that it was dumbed down and simple/locked down and with fewer options. Or are you so fucking lazy you can't be bothered to read?
Same goes for you moron.

Ps your car analogy sucks. Your not adding extra shit...or getting rid of waste.

Of Mac was a car they give you a gauge that left out rpms. Or not give you a stereo because it's a distraction.

A computer is already like a car...some people Fuck up and crash. A Mac is like a tricycle. It never crashes but they removed half the usefull features to make it easy for you.

Then again I'm sure you like having one usb port and no HDMI out...options are bad and complicated after all...having extra ports would be like shifting gears with your toes right?

Back in applecare we had a lot of fun with you guys. You get paid based on review emails. The joke we always made was we don't fix shit but if we make you feel special for buying a Mac we get good reviews anyway.

But hey your the one who feels good about getting less...so enjoy your walled garden...we both know you can't handle more anyway :)

Run (not administer) a server farm.

compile OS from source

write to ntfs..

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opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-3789.21.4/

>A computer is already like a car...some people Fuck up and crash. A Mac is like a tricycle. It never crashes but they removed half the usefull features to make it easy for you.
Yeah that makes sense as an analogy it's just not true.

You're very hard pressed to actually come up with this glass ceilings that everyone claims Apple has created.

>Then again I'm sure you like having one usb port and no HDMI out...options are bad and complicated after all...having extra ports would be like shifting gears with your toes right?
Forward-thinking. If you can eliminate hardware you will

Apple's simplicify officially transcended too far when they removed the other ports though, absolutely no one found a hole on the side of your laptop to be an obstruction.

>But hey your the one who feels good about getting less...so enjoy your walled garden...we both know you can't handle more anyway :)
I use Arch Linux if I can help it. I also just happen to not be a fedora clad mongoloid that refuses to do anything that isn't overtly convoluted and I also appreciate something being good for what it's worth and that some people just don't have my opinion.

>"Reason"
>"DOESN'T MATTER NERD SHIIIIIT GO JERK OFF TO ANIME LOSER ;_;"

>itoddler full damage control

not be a faggot

shut up

Change your window manager

>be straight
>implying women are superior in any way to cute traps

I actually think there's some minimal wm for macos, not sure.

Go into massive debt. Cant do that with linux. Also you can play games on linux. Macs are the ultimate symbol of neoliberalism whiles linux is the patrician socialist choice.

Not suck Apples dick