TL;DR: macOS Sonoma launching on September 26 brings desktop widgets, Game Mode for gaming performance, web apps in the Dock, new screen savers, Safari profiles, and more features to compatible Macs.

  • cosmic_slate@dmv.social
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    1 year ago

    I’ve used Linux as my main OS for most of the last 16-17 years and switched full-time to Mac a year ago.

    It’s absolutely foolish to compare the two OSes.

    Does Linux give you a lot of flexibility? Sure. But I can trash my Mac laptop’s install and be back up and running exactly where I left off with a restored-from-backup install in an hour.

    Can you get that with a homebrew setup where you archive BTRFS/ZFS snapshots elsewhere? Sure. But I’m at the point of my life where I simply do not care anymore to fuck with it.

    The extra $500-1000 or whatever is a completely meaningless amount of money for an out-of-box experience that “just works” without fiddling with stuff.

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      1 year ago

      Admittedly, NixOS fixes this with a single config file that can rebuild your system in minutes, then the built-in backup tool can restore your files. So yes, absolutely. That being said, that’s limited to a few declarative distros

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        1 year ago

        I haven’t messed with NixOS but just using Nix is fantastic. I’ve been meddling with it on-and-off in VMs for the last few months and I’m a big fan.