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I don't go around macOS stories with "macOS sucks, this is why I use Linux". It's off-topic noise at best, and just pointless caring about what systems other people run at worst.

So yeah, -1 from me to all of those posts, and also the Arch Linux one (I'm typing this from an Arch machine). I don't think the reasons are that obscure: it's off-topic and doesn't contribute. Your post at least has some depth to it, but on the other hand, it's the same discussion ... every time.



If someone posted a story called "Driving on Water", and it was all about how you could modify your car to get it to drive on a lake... sure, it's interesting... but it would certainly be worth pointing out that boats exist, and that boats are perhaps much easier at doing what you're trying to do, which is transportation on water. Maybe there's some reason the original posters aren't using boats, and they can share that information. We don't know until we start communicating about it.


Everyone here is already familiar with all the major operating systems, including macOS. There is no value in rehashing this debate all over again here – which isn't even what most comments are doing, they're just digs at FreeBSD/Linux.


I don't think we're trying to debate as much as point out problems unique to some OSes, and how we wish it were different. I would very much like to use Linux as a desktop, if setting it up weren't a garbage fire. It doesn't have to be this way.




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