how ignorant and self centered mac users! they want the OS+PC should just be designed for what they want. yeah how lame, some people actually need more than 1 USB port, and some people need active directory.
a typical defense of having one USB port would be something like " oh use wireless"
another great one is "fuck NTFS"
is it a coincidence that the majority of mac users behave this way
@3v0 I'm not a Mac user, but I have a tiny, portable USB hub I can use on the go if I need more than one USB port on a laptop/tablet with only 1 built-in port.
For active directory you can download plugins or third party software that will work just fine. We logged into Macs on campus (this was years ago) with active directory.
And NTFS is supported via NTFS-3g for years now, just download and install it.
You speak of things having to be "designed for (only) what people want" as if that's a bad thing, so surely you can't complain about the fact that you may have to go out of your way to bring up support for various technologies and protocols that are not even owned by Apple, on an Apple system.
I mean, unless your copy of Windows came with iTunes, ZFS filesystem support, and Xcode.... what I'm trying to say is, there are a lot of proprietary, vendor-specific things out there that it's difficult/impossible to include in the "base" OS, and every OS is going to have to accept that fact. You can't have everything configured exactly as you need it out of the box.
What I would love is a laptop ior a tablet with: Monitor out (DP with MST, or 2x DP) 2+ USB 2 (not USB3) for booting from a pen drive and or adding keyboard and mouse (no need for more complex USB3 for those) eSATA for external harddisks or pen drives Room for 2 HDDs and at least a 15" screen with 1920x1200 and Ethernet (100mbit or gbit)
@3v0 It's an overgeneralization to refer to "mac users' attitudes" in that context. Not every Mac user is going to feel that way. And there are plenty of counterexamples where non-Mac users (Windows users, GNU/Linux users, etc.) are openly hostile to having features/functionality on their system that they don't use.
@3v0 Fortunately, Apple doesn't listen to their complaints, for the most part. Your average Mac OS X installation is chock-full of useful features that probably 95% of users will never care about. That's a good thing; don't get me wrong. But people who see it as a bad thing are not going to convince anybody who's anybody to listen to them. They're just wasting their breath.
What I do not like on a laptop is also a nice list: 1) No floppy drive 2) No optical drive 3) No VGA out. It is not 1985, it is f-ing 2015. Use DP or for old laptops use HDMI,, but not VGA
@3v0 They didn't really start again. There wasn't enough time to do that. Literally impossible. They may have scrapped large swaths of code, sure, but the reality is that a lot of what started development with Longhorn got delayed until future Windows releases. Windows 10 is more Longhorn than Longhorn.
Vista was a severely de-scoped Longhorn, and most of the de-scoping occurred not because the features were bad, but because they didn't have enough budget to cram all that development into the targeted timeframe.
For instance, ReFS, which is just now starting to hit Windows Server (and isn't even the default filesystem!), was a Longhorn concept.
ReFS is supposed to eventually be Microsoft's replacement to NTFS, but they're very, very slowly introducing it, because they (wisely) understand that any filesystem takes about a decade of production use before it's really rock-solid.
People using ReFS on Windows Server now are helping Microsoft beta test ;-)
That way in 2020 regular users will have it on desktops
The truth of the matter is that ReFS is helping Microsoft play catch-up to ZFS. ZFS introduced, in the late 2000s through the present, a lot of very important features that filesystems need, which nobody else supported at the time. ReFS is taking ZFS's features and chucking them into a Microsoft proprietary technology that integrates well with Windows.
I no longer save to network locations, only locally cus last time it told me the network drive was still connected, it let me click save but then it couldnt find it when I tried to open it again
so that was annoying
it was virtualboxsharedfolder filesystem
but may have been nfs instead not sure
it should prompt the user if a network drive is disconnected
now in firefox I have to download the file, click on the download arrow click show all, click open containing folder, try again because it doesn't always open it, copy the file from downloads to the desktop
so much work
firefox doesnt even go to the actual downloads folder
I'm upgrading the experimental instance to openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release). Some instability is acceptable for this machine. The production server will still use full openSUSE releases for stability.
Copy-on-Write (the core philosophy behind btrfs and zfs) is "inefficient". Checksums are wasteful of both storage and CPU cycles. Crypto has a lot of overhead. The security benefits of virtual memory come at huge performance cost! There were staunch opponents of virtual memory when it was first becoming a thing.
Power efficiency and responsiveness innovations originate in consumer electronics, then consumer PCs, and slowly propagate their way up to HEDTs, workstations, and (eventually) industrial server "big iron"; it just takes years.
Data integrity and security innovations originate in the enterprise market, and slowly propagate over to consumer stuff, but it takes years.
@DragonLord Right, but that hardware, in terms of power costs, physical dimensions, complexity, design costs, etc. comes at a non-zero cost. It's not free. And when virtual memory was brand new, it was initially done in software to demonstrate the concept, and only then did hardware chips come out with it. But some people didn't want those chips due to the cost.
It's a small cost compared to much heavier things these days like virtualization and such, but it was huge back in the day.
