Comment by mrweasel

Comment by mrweasel 11 hours ago

4 replies

Isn't that true for pretty much every OS? The feature set we need to be able to do our jobs and computing hobbies have been available for two decades.

Operating systems like Debian is sufficiently boring that I can just upgrade and continue computing. macOS upgrades have become a small gamble, the stuff that I depend on may not continue to work, or at least it will take a good deal of work. There are however no reason to upgrade, so the risk isn't really worth the hassle of upgrading and breaking Java or Python.

p_ing 8 hours ago

Microsoft still manages to do 'cool stuff' at the kernel level; IO Rings, VBS, Rust, etc.

Only thing I see on the Apple' what's new that looks interesting is Metal updates. Most of the rest is UI.

ryandrake 11 hours ago

You can still get software that installs and works perfectly on Windows 7 (released 16 years ago). Good luck finding software that even installs on Snow Leopard (released 16 years ago), let alone works well.

  • cosmic_cheese 11 hours ago

    The flip side of this is that every attempt at advancing the Windows UI framework story beyond win32/MFC and WPF has failed and the platform itself is steeped neck deep in technical debt.

  • kjkjadksj 4 hours ago

    Snow leopard is a unix based os. There is a ton of software that can still install on it and work fine.