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Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad
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I definitely think it's "linux brain" that exists around here to a degree. You can see it on any given thread that talks about...well...anything technical. "Just download Linux!" they'll say. And I say this as someone who LIKES Linux. I have it on two of my pcs (and I have a Mac and iPhone/iPad, etc. as well). It's great. But there's a zealotry around here around it.
That said, it's not hard to dislike Apple right now. I'm pretty mad at them for cozying up to trump all the time. I'm glad Cook will not be leading Apple soon (though I wish he'd just leave outright. He'll still be at the company). But it's hard to deny the hardware is great and the software is generally good and generally works well.
But Lemmy is certainly a niche population of nerds. And that's fine! It's great! But a lot of those nerds seem to love the "console wars"-type mentality of "MY thing is the best and anything else is bad."
MacOS is on a steady decline though. Since Jobs died, it has become worse with each release.
Apple TV is great, though.
I really appreciate your response and I agree completely. Linux seems awesome (I've played with Mint a little bit, and have heard a lot about Bazzite and Kinoite, and I do plan on moving over when I have the time/energy/motivation. It does seem significantly better than the commercial offerings once one gets past the (often exaggerated) learning curve.
Would you mind expanding on the Apple stuff? I haven't looked into them as a company since they told the courts to fuck off during the Snowden trial or something like that. I'm realizing that I'm not an Apple fanboy, but I also don't have the data pool to really form an opinion one way or another.
I grew up an apple fanboy but in my early twenties I realized I couldn't afford to stay one. Since the iPhone came out they've gotten more and more closed off and hard to modify. The last straw for me was realizing you couldn't install older versions of software (someone gave me a 1st or 2nd Gen iPad) and I couldn't even put an older version of home assistant on it. That really showed me how hard they push for "you must buy the newest thing" because they'll deliberately break the old one