Apple previously announced that macOS Sonoma will be released this Tuesday, September 26. The free software update includes many new features and...

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.

    • johnthedoe@lemmy.ml
      325·
      1 year ago

      I hope Apple haters realise they sound just as annoying as die hard Apple fans.

      • hansl@lemmy.world
        222·
        1 year ago

        Moreso even. They just come to your community to display their hatred, as if there’s nothing better to do.

        How many Apple enthusiasts go to Linux communities and laugh at their OS unprompted?

    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      274·
      1 year ago

      Sure. Now get grandma to buy a Linux machine and deploy a distro. Or even any creatives that don’t want to bother with sudo everything. Each ecosystem fad their pros and cons.

    • cosmic_slate@dmv.socialEnglish
      212·
      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.

      • bigdog_00@lemmy.world
        8·
        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

        • cosmic_slate@dmv.socialEnglish
          2·
          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.