The MacBook Pro introduction in October caused unusually negative reactions among professional users due to the realization that Apple no longer caters equally to casual and professional customers as it had in the past [YouTube video]. Instead, the company appears to be following an iOS-focused, margin-driven strategy that essentially relegates professionals to a fringe group.
This has well-known developers such as Salvatore Sanfilippo (of the Redis project) consider a move back to Linux. Perhaps that's a good moment to look at the current state of Mac hardware support in the kernel. While Macs are x86 systems, they possess various custom chips and undocumented quirks that the community needs to painstakingly reverse-engineer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @09:17AM
It's not "on the Mac", but "on Macs". I don't care what Apple's marketing department uses, please use proper English.
(Score: 3, Funny) by tangomargarine on Wednesday December 14 2016, @03:30PM
Why do you think Macs are so expensive? They just build one and use their quantum cloning machine to duplicate it.
The cloning machine was shatteringly expensive. They're still paying it off in installments.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @05:55PM
Counterexample: 2017: the year of Linux on the desktop?
Both forms are correct -- one speaks of Linux on a number of computers, one speaks of Linux on a single platform.