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Ask SoylentNews: How did Your Upgrade to macOS High Sierra Go?

posted by martyb on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the uphill,-both-ways? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The latest version of Apple's macOS operating system, macOS High Sierra, has been released. If you have upgraded your system already, how did the upgrade go? Did you encounter any problems? If you have not yet updated, why have you chosen not to?

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:32AM (11 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:32AM (#574253) Journal

    What is this "macOS" of which you speak, and where can I download it from? You do know this is SoylentNews? Only TMB and crm3824 use Mac.

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  • (Score: 2) by TGV on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:40AM (7 children)

    by TGV (2838) on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:40AM (#574257)

    You can download it from apple.com: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201475 [apple.com]

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:53AM (6 children)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:53AM (#574264) Journal

      NO, I cannot.

      on Mac computers that meet the system requirements.

      Why would I subject myself to such walled garden monopoly, when I could run a free and open Operating System?

      • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by lx on Thursday September 28 2017, @07:26AM (3 children)

        by lx (1915) on Thursday September 28 2017, @07:26AM (#574271)

        Grow up.

        • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Thursday September 28 2017, @07:41AM

          by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday September 28 2017, @07:41AM (#574275) Journal

          Flox off, you two letter, sub 2k uid, partisan wombat! I support your right to free speech absolutely, just don't be such a dick.

        • (Score: 2, Informative) by Type44Q on Thursday September 28 2017, @02:59PM

          by Type44Q (4347) on Thursday September 28 2017, @02:59PM (#574370)

          An emotional response disguised as a logical response... to a logical point. Zero actual rebuttal (not that that would have been possible, given the self-evident nature of said point).

          You brought a spitwad to a gunfight. Well-fucking-done, lightweight.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 28 2017, @07:43PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 28 2017, @07:43PM (#574505)

          Icks.

      • (Score: 2) by KiloByte on Thursday September 28 2017, @02:02PM (1 child)

        by KiloByte (375) on Thursday September 28 2017, @02:02PM (#574342)

        My reason: to port my software for benefit of users who suffer Macs. But no way in hell I'm buying grossly overpriced Apple hardware, and hackintosh failed to install on either of last two Intel machines I own within the limit of effort I consider acceptable. Thus, no, sorry, no working OSX builds of my free software.

        This stands in contrast to the other evil company, who provides gratis native toolchains, doesn't oppose free cross toolchains, and sometimes even give out licenses for fully working versions (like Windows Insider Edition).

        --
        Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.

  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday September 28 2017, @04:55PM

    by Wootery (2341) on Thursday September 28 2017, @04:55PM (#574429)

    What is this "macOS" of which you speak, and where can I download it from? You do know this is SoylentNews?

    Indeed. Most of us here have at least heard of the major operating systems.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 28 2017, @10:08PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 28 2017, @10:08PM (#574554)

    Actually I am quite happy with my MacOS Sierra. I can't remember exactly where I downloaded it from, but the process may have included some peer to peer file sharing software. Mine runs happily inside a VirtualBox on a regular PC. Similar installations can run directly on the iron. It's actually not a terrible effort. Paternalistic end-user experience, a.k.a iTunes is of course an abomination but the developer experience is actually not terrible.

    At the moment I run the following operating systems

    Windows 10, developer mode, windows sub-system for linux
    Mac OS X Sierra, all developer accounts and options active
    Elementary Linux, a few minor mods to render it usable but actually this thing is pretty great out of the box

    I find the three systems to be very close in terms of user experience with the linux system maybe edging out the competition due to it having the most mature and refined Terminal application

    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 28 2017, @10:56PM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday September 28 2017, @10:56PM (#574572) Journal

      due to it having the most mature and refined Terminal application

      Your credentials accepted, Sir!