• deaf_fish@lemm.ee
    237·
    1 day ago

    I tried to be unbiased, but failed. Apple and Linux should be switched.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      14·
      1 day ago

      I don’t know about macOS, but from experience, neither Linux nor Windows are actually “just works”. Although it will depend on distro, I definitely have different experience on Arch and Manjaro than say Mint users. Mint worked for me well, although older dependencies have also killed “just works” a few times.

  • Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee
    201·
    1 day ago

    Working computer? Apple? Tell that to my dad. He destroys a Mac in about two years. Bought his house 7 years ago, and three dead macs in the basement.

    Could you imagine if he used a PC?

      • cadekat@pawb.social
        6·
        1 day ago

        I think you’ve got arch and debian reversed, and I’m personally hurt by the lack of Gentoo representation 💔

        • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          4·
          1 day ago

          I mostly included those two based on the funny logos I could find. The placement is mostly based on the vibes of apple users being closer to arch users. I only wanted to include two serious distros.

          • Laser@feddit.org
            5·
            1 day ago

            I only wanted to include two serious distros.

            Hannah Montana is obvious, but which one is the second one?

      • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        arch is most definitely not a “working computer” for most people’s standards and should be switched with Ubuntu, but other than that, I dig it

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    515·
    2 days ago

    Well if your definition of “working” is “can run all the important programs and game” then anything thats not windows or linux wont work.

      • Nester@feddit.ukEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        If you’re willing to take the plunge and spend more time in the terminal you could give neovim a try.

        To turn it into an IDE contender you can use LazyVim to automatically setup a bunch of quality of life improvements.

        It’s a bit of a commitment to learn but it is super rewarding when you get it.

      • stetech@lemmy.world
        14·
        2 days ago

        Use TextEdit for .txt and .rtf, and get Sublime Text, VS Codium, or any of the other bazillion IDEs out there until you find one you can tolerate. Helix does that for me. (:

          • stetech@lemmy.world
            8·
            2 days ago

            Which aspects about it do you dislike?

            I’m asking since for most everything – except maybe the fact it’s Electron-based – there’s an extension, or the behavior can already be altered in the settings.

            Also, IDK how your workplace handles application management, but if you have any freedom as a developer (if that is your role?), make sure to get a package manager, presumably Homebrew or MacPorts.
            Brew especially isn’t perfect, but brew install <name> handily beats out any installation method containing the words “App Store” or “Browser download button.”

            You have to apply some (from time to time well-hidden) tweaks to macOS until it becomes usable. :P

  • _stranger_@lemmy.world
    23·
    21 hours ago

    Don’t worry everyone, it’s like the Sorting Hat, it takes your preference into account. Just say “not TempleOS” and you’ll get into Linux.

    • InputZero@lemmy.world
      5·
      13 hours ago

      The Wikipedia page is your best friend here. In short was an operating system written from the ground up by a brilliant, bipolar and occasionally psychotic man who was named named Terry Davis. It is important to mention when talking about Terry Davis to note he stalked several women and he probably took his own life.

      It was Terry’s belief that a way to speak to God was through computers. So he built an operating system from the ground up to act as God’s temple. It’s actually a pretty nifty achievement truth be told and an interesting view into the mind of someone suffering from psychosis. It is not suitable for every day use, but people have taken the foundations of his OS and ran with it making equally interesting operating systems.

    • Deestan@lemmy.world
      191·
      2 days ago

      It’s an amazing piece of technology made as a hobby project by the absurdly talented Terry Davis. He gradually lost his world, house and evetually his life to debilitating mental illness, so it makes me sad to see posts like this using “mentally unstable lol” as a punchline.

      • katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        11·
        13 hours ago

        Temple OS is an impressive feat for a lone dev, no argument there, but it is hardly an amazing piece of tech because of it. It is a barely functioning skeleton OS that looks like it was made in the eighties. There’s only the barest minimum of token apps available and there’s a breaking lack of basic features. The main selling point is of course the bible-related crap but that hardly makes it “amazing tech” or even unique.

        This makes me suspect that what you are actually defending is christianity and you take affront to the use of a christian symbol to exemplify mental illness. Sure, the dev had issues, but how many people knows this? Luckily you are here to point out that it is the dev that was mad, his christian OS is a fine thing actually and has nothing at all to do with madness. Please use Ubuntu Satanic edition to convey madness in future memes.

        • Deestan@lemmy.world
          1·
          12 hours ago

          This makes me suspect that what you are actually defending is christianity and you take affront…

          I am not going on this creative adventure with you, sorry.

          For anyone else reading: The OS was originally called “LosethOS” as in “lose the OS” and was a personal project in exploring how powerful a personal computer really is if we take away modern abstraction layers. The OS had some cool concepts of a raw C shell integrated directly with programs, and inline “SVG-like” code comments, and more.

          It was not something you could deploy for daily use or production environments, but it was a power flex on what is actually possible, and made a lot of us in tech reconsider whether some of the abstraction layers we take as “automatic” actually help us more than they slow us down and make our power bills go up.

          The core ideas are still found in things like CollapseOS today. Not sure if the inspiration is direct or indirect, but it is still cool.

          Him renaming it TempleOS came later, when he was already deep in struggles. It derailed the core interesting parts as far as I was concerned, but it helped him find meaning, which I don’t hold against him.

      • gnutrino@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        I agree it’s in poor taste to make fun of his mental health issues but calling TempleOS a “hobby project” is burying the lede a little…

  • LANIK2000@lemmy.world
    63·
    1 day ago

    After being forced to use an iMac in collage, I’ll admit it’s fine and definitely better than windows. But it’s still annoying. I wouldn’t call not being able to use the F key row, just because I dare to use a non apple keyboard a “working computer”, just as a most in my face example, there’s much more. It works and it does so looking pretty, as long as you have literally zero personal preferences.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    154·
    21 hours ago

    What kind of Bizzaro world reverse order is this nonsense? Mac is worse than Windows is worse than Linux.

  • Abnorc@lemm.ee
    22·
    1 day ago

    Where is BSD? I feel like there are still steps before you reach TempleOS.