It's not sudo that is the problem. Sudo actually has some good reasons for existing, nost notably, auditibility. If someone SSHes into a box as root, all you know is that someone logged in as root. But if you sudo, you know exactly who requested root privileges because it's all recorded in the audit log.
The problem is the fact that all this software is written by shitty developers who think that they are special and don't need to play nicely with anyone else.
This is no different from the Windows world where applications would run roughshod all over the place, placing their files god knows where and just assumed that the user had admin privileges. Then when you tried to run the software as a non-admin, it would break, despite the fact that there was no bloody good reason for this thing to need admin privileges.
And now thanks to NPM and all the other javascript crap, all these shitty developers now think they're rockstar linux developers and linux is starting to see the exact same problems.
Otherwise you're at thw mercy of the platform team, or you have to maintain separate packages for platforms woth different release and maintenance cadences.
That's one way to look at it.
Another way of looking at it is making use of exist stable ecosystems. It makes you mindful about playing nicely with others. It forces you to do things properly instead of taking cheap shortcuts because the regular way is too "inconvenient". It forces you to plan ahead and try to avoid making sweeping changes that risk breaking backward compatibility.
Of course, this is again condemning the JS community because they are patently unwilling/unable to do any of these things. So... as you said...
Really? You make a post like that and accuse ME of being the whiner?
You know what happened the last time I bought a cheap cable? It shorted out the power circuit on two of my iPads, so no. Fuck *YOU* for suggesting this bullshit. I will *not* buy a cheap adapter and risk damaging my very expensive equipment just to satisfy your hysterical nervous breakdown.
If I was connecting to something legacy like VGA, then you would have a point. But I'm not. I'm talking about people that just want to connect their laptops to any of the displays that have been manufacturered in the past 10ish years, as well as the next 10ish years. Even todays current generation MBPs will be obsolete and piling up on landfills long before HDMI stops being actively used. There is not one. single. TV. that support mini-displayport. I haven't googled exhaustively, but I doubt there is one that supports regular displayport either. Projectors at least have some chance of having DP, depending on model.
You can go into hysterics all you want, but the fact of the matter is that Apple promised a premium "just works" experience and charge prices accordingly. But their design choices for their hardware AND their software are clearly demonstrating that they now only care about the latter. The ONLY saving grace is that despite all their bullshit, they're still better than Microsoft's ecosystem. But that's not saying much.
And frothing-at-the-mouth fanboys like you do absolutely nothing to help matters. Honestly, do you really understand just how psychotic you sound in your posts? Apple is a company, not an extremist religious institution, and you are most definitely not their pastor.
And at this point I think you must be rabid and/or strikingly/willingly desperate to maintain that reality distortion field you cloak yourself with.
Have you considered seeing a psychologist? Based on your posting history, I would be willing to bet that if Apple told you to drink cyanide-laced koolaid, you would.
Apple has a core belief that "making the whole widget" is an inherently superior idea because it allows you to provide an end-to-end QA and user experience.
I would like to believe that that is a good idea. And perhaps it was, under Jobs' leadership. But under Cook, it's clear their focus has gone from "Maximizing QA" to "Maximizing Profits" and has thrown QA under the bus. Their current lineup seems to be the worst and buggiest that they have ever put out.
My current iPhone will likely be my last because I've run into frustrating bugs.
I'm still using a MBP from 2010, and while I want to say that I will never upgrade, the fact is that Microsoft has screw up Windows even more than Apple has screwed up MacOS ( I so regret upgrading to High Sierra). I will probably stick with MacOS for the forseeable future cause at least then I'm only getting screwed once in the wallet. If I buy a Windows machine I will get screwed over and over and over again for the lifetime of the entire machine. At least Apple hasn't managed to botch up updates so badly that the computer cannot boot anymore, unless what I've seen Microsoft do. Repeatedly.
If you wouldn't buy a HomePod under any circumstances; then you don't care what the repair costs are, or whether they are reasonable.
So you are nothing but spewing Apple Hate.
Thanks for identifying yourself. We're done here.
No, we're not done here. You know what, I really gotta know... Are you even for real?
When I've written past posts that is positive about Apple, you responded with back-slapping-preach-it-brother stuff. But then when I write a post criticizing Apple, you accuse me of being an Apple-hater.
So what am I? An Apple fan or a hater?
I'm currently typing on an Macbook Pro. In fact, I've been using Apple computers for over a decade. My last several phones were all iPhones. So am I a fan, or a hater?
I convinced almost every member in my family to buy Apple. I bought my parents Mac Minis for Christmas. So am I a fan, or a hater?
Well? What am I?
I mean, I could suggest that you think about it and maybe realize that the world isn't black or white, but I think that would probably be asking too much.
I would similarly guess that it is beyond your ability to understand that a consumer product company is not a religious institution and shouldn't be treated like one.
Can you at least admit that people purchase/use products via specific criteria (sometimes even solid practical ones) other than mindless obedience to a brand?
I don't miss having an HDMI port in a laptop, because most of the time you do not need an HDMI port.
Just because YOU don't need one doesn't mean nobody else does.
Every single person I know uses their laptop as their primary computing device, which means when they get to their desks they plug their laptop into external monitors, keyboards, etc. Then if they have a meeting they disconnect and take their machine to the meeting. Etc etc. This is so shockingly common I'm amazed you have the audacity to say what you said.
Perfectly spoken as someone who doesn't have to do this for a living.
Assuming one is willing to buy such a frighteningly cheap adapter (I would trust an offer from a Nigerian Price before this thing...), you *still* need to buy one for every user that will need one. You'd also need one in *every* conference room because people will invariably forget them. And then you need to buy an additional handful of spares for when they're lost or broken. And I will bet you money that those super-cheap adapters will fail a heck of a lot more often than one that costs $30+.
So we're no longer talking $10. We're talking several hundred dollars of needless expense, and that's for a small company. Not to mention a regular additional cost over time as the dongles are replaced.
Meanwhile, EVERY display device in the past 10+ years has HDMI. Almost EVERY computer, apart from Apple, has an HDMI port. The only additional cost would be the HDMI cable, and that's only if you bought a cheap one that didn't include a cable already in the box.
Dongles are additional unnecessary expense. They are additional unnecessary hassle for both users AND the admin staff having to buy the things. Dongles have a place for when you want to use something uncommon (eg: firewire) or if the laptop is so absurdly thin that the desired port won't physically fit without compromising the case (eg: VGA or Ethernet), but requiring dongles for connecting to very commonly used items like HDMI, or USB3 ports is downright idiotic.
I don't get this stance. Virtually *everything* used in North America comes from China. Even precious American darlings like Apple make all their stuff in China and ship it over.
If the US gov't is so worried about Chinese influence, maybe they shouldn't have allowed the overwhelming majority of it's manufacturing capacity to be moved overseas?
IMO the 2016 are the worst in a steadily worsening lineup. They have turned computers into ludicrously expensive, laughably limited, unrepairable appliances. I am still using my macbook from 2010. I was able to upgrade the ram to 16GB. I was able to replace the hard drive with an SSD. I can't change the battery trivially myself, which is annoying, but apart from that the machine still runs reasonably well for virtually all my workloads except for high-end gaming.
Now? You can't repair *anything* on the machine. Everything is soldered. Not only that, you can't *plug* anything into the machine either unless you buy expensive dongles. So now, for example, everybody needs to maintain a stock of dongles in every meeting room because nobody makes TVs and projectors with USB-C/TB3 connectors.
The only reasons Apple is doing as well as it is on the computer front is because a) you can't develop iOS apps without one, and b) Microsoft has fucked up Windows so utterly badly that people now have a very strong incentive to jump ship.
If Microsoft every manages to pull it's head out of its rear and come up with a Windows strategy that isn't stupid, Apple is gonna be in trouble.
The only reason you would even consider saying that is because you have no idea of history. Microsoft already tried to pull the "everything is an app" idea. The end result was an unmitigated nightmare. Ditto for Adobe with their earlier versions of PDF. This is why most modern email clients ignore script by default, and most decent emails clients won't permit downloading of data external to the email without the user explicitly clicking a button to do so (or setting up a whitelist, etc).
There is a REASON why anyone with an ounce of security expertise say that there must be a clear line of separation between data and executable code. There is not one single example of where this design *hasn't* bitten people in the ass.
And now Google wants to recreate the exact same nightmare because they're stuck in this infantile "Won't that be SO COOL!?" mindset and is no longer able to consider the already well established consequences of their actions.
This is as moronic as their idea to allow the browser to bypass the operating system and have direct access to bluetooth hardware.
Just because the idea is blatantly self-serving, doesn't mean it's wrong in general.
Yes, Google may indirectly benefit from HTTPS everywhere. However, HTTPS everywhere IS needed, because the parade of malicious actors never stops and every layer of security we add can only be a good thing.
Yes, and the general opinion of car dealerships that they're sleazy crooked bastards that will soak you for as much as they can get away with. Nobody goes back to a dealership for repairs unless it's under warranty or if there are some special circumstances. If that's that kind of negative reputation Apple wants to cultivate, then all the power to them.
The problem is that Apple is trying to have their cake and eat it too. They want to charge ridiculous money for repairs AND deny people the ability to repair things themselves. And that is NOT ok. This attitude (Not just Apple but many others, including John Deer I believe...) is exactly why "right to repair" legislation is popping up all over the place, and IMO it can't come fast enough.
And no, I have no idea what the repair costs are for the homepod. Not do I really, care, to be honest, because I will never buy one of the ridiculous things. My point is that, based on my own experience, if said poster is being hyperbolic it's probably not by much.
Huh. I've never heard of Maui linux. Looks interesting.
As for the rest of your post, I wish slashdot let you mod and comment at the same time because I would totally mod you insightful. Instead I'll just say you make compete sense, with one exception: Linux software is only easy to manage if it's already curated by the distro repository. If it isn't, then it's a a shot in the dark.
Whoop! My apologies. Apparently I fumbled my 'reading comprehension' roll.
You're completely correct. The only frustrating problem is that those are very specifically curated machines, tailored for running a specific version of linux designed to play games. Linux is fantastic when you have a vested interest like Valve who has the resources to curate the distribution AND has the clout to push it forward. But that really emphasizes just how bad the generic distributions are at playing nicely. I haven't actually tried to use SteamOS. Can you use it as a generic desktop OS? (eg: run an office suite, browser, open a terminal, etc)
And just to be clear, it's not that I "can't" make it work for me. It's that I *won't* make it work for me. In other words, I resent that I have to put my sysadmin hat on just to make my OS behave in a reasonable manner. Just for one example, and I can't remember which distribution this was, but I tried to add an arbitrary application (Franz) to the program menu. It wasn't provided in a package form. There was literally no way to "just" add it to the program menu. My only option was to look up how to create a.desktop file, configure it properly, and then sudo to root and put it somewhere under/usr/share. That is, to be blunt, fucking idiotic, and I that was when I decided that gnome was a hopeless pile of shit that is nowhere near ready for prime time.
You name a distro and I can probably give you a horror story about how whatever I was doing ground to a screeching halt and I had to put my sysadmin hat on and do some funky reconfiguration, whether it was difficulty getting the spdif port working properly, trying to get an application to full screen on the non-primary display, or some other nonsense that you can do on any other major OS without so much as a second thought. I have more than enough other things to do with my life that I simply don't have the patience to deal with software that forces me to bludgeon it into submission.
Similarly, I gave up on Android (and went to iOS) after my Samsung S3 because I was effectively forced to root the phone and install cyanogenmod, just to get the phone to operate reasonably. Since then, Google has apparently decided to finally pull it's head out of their collective asses and realize that neither manufacturers nor developers could be trusted to do the right thing, and are finally taking control back with decent permissions, strict execution requirements and a HAL. I'm nw waiting anxiously for the next generation of mainstream phones that ship with v8.1, because Apple appears to have forgotten what attracted people to their platform and decided bullshit is now an acceptable thing.
Except that it IS different. PS3 is a single platform. There is exactly one PS3, with maybe a couple variations. Ditto with the XBox. There isn't that much variation.
Linux? Distros don't even TRY to maintain any sort of compatibility between each other. The LSB was supposed to provide a minimum baseline for the different distros to help fix the hideous fragmentation of the ecosystem, and they couldn't even manage THAT.
The linux community is full of so many special snowflakes that have to be unique that Linux is beyond any hope of providing a consistent baseline. Hell, look at the idiocy going on with systemd for an example of how the linux community goes out of it's way to put a tempest in every teacup, resulting is an an ecosystem so fractured that Android looks simple by comparison.
I've tried to use Linux as a desktop OS. Several times. Every single time I've had to abandon it cause Linux is a PITA to use for general end-user tasks unless you only work within the limited garden a distro happens to provide for you.
And this will not change until people pull their heads out of their collective asses and realize that they all need to work together, that they need to compromise, to make Linux less fragmented and make it easier for manufacturers and other software developers to target.
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Is port knocking still a thing?
It's not sudo that is the problem. Sudo actually has some good reasons for existing, nost notably, auditibility. If someone SSHes into a box as root, all you know is that someone logged in as root. But if you sudo, you know exactly who requested root privileges because it's all recorded in the audit log.
The problem is the fact that all this software is written by shitty developers who think that they are special and don't need to play nicely with anyone else.
This is no different from the Windows world where applications would run roughshod all over the place, placing their files god knows where and just assumed that the user had admin privileges. Then when you tried to run the software as a non-admin, it would break, despite the fact that there was no bloody good reason for this thing to need admin privileges.
And now thanks to NPM and all the other javascript crap, all these shitty developers now think they're rockstar linux developers and linux is starting to see the exact same problems.
Otherwise you're at thw mercy of the platform team, or you have to maintain separate packages for platforms woth different release and maintenance cadences.
That's one way to look at it.
Another way of looking at it is making use of exist stable ecosystems. It makes you mindful about playing nicely with others. It forces you to do things properly instead of taking cheap shortcuts because the regular way is too "inconvenient". It forces you to plan ahead and try to avoid making sweeping changes that risk breaking backward compatibility.
Of course, this is again condemning the JS community because they are patently unwilling/unable to do any of these things. So... as you said...
Good luck with that.
Doesn't MacOS depend on the twitter app in order to do it's twitter integration?
I could be wrong. I've always thought providing direct OS support for ephimeral services was silly, so I've always ignored that functionality anyway.
But for all the people that actually do care about this functionality, won't they get screwed over by this?
Bullshit. It is your job to educate the customer. The customer is not always Right. In fact, they are usually wrong.
I take it you're a junior developer?
Really? You make a post like that and accuse ME of being the whiner?
You know what happened the last time I bought a cheap cable? It shorted out the power circuit on two of my iPads, so no. Fuck *YOU* for suggesting this bullshit. I will *not* buy a cheap adapter and risk damaging my very expensive equipment just to satisfy your hysterical nervous breakdown.
If I was connecting to something legacy like VGA, then you would have a point. But I'm not. I'm talking about people that just want to connect their laptops to any of the displays that have been manufacturered in the past 10ish years, as well as the next 10ish years. Even todays current generation MBPs will be obsolete and piling up on landfills long before HDMI stops being actively used. There is not one. single. TV. that support mini-displayport. I haven't googled exhaustively, but I doubt there is one that supports regular displayport either. Projectors at least have some chance of having DP, depending on model.
You can go into hysterics all you want, but the fact of the matter is that Apple promised a premium "just works" experience and charge prices accordingly. But their design choices for their hardware AND their software are clearly demonstrating that they now only care about the latter. The ONLY saving grace is that despite all their bullshit, they're still better than Microsoft's ecosystem. But that's not saying much.
And frothing-at-the-mouth fanboys like you do absolutely nothing to help matters. Honestly, do you really understand just how psychotic you sound in your posts? Apple is a company, not an extremist religious institution, and you are most definitely not their pastor.
And at this point I think you must be rabid and/or strikingly/willingly desperate to maintain that reality distortion field you cloak yourself with.
Have you considered seeing a psychologist? Based on your posting history, I would be willing to bet that if Apple told you to drink cyanide-laced koolaid, you would.
Apple has a core belief that "making the whole widget" is an inherently superior idea because it allows you to provide an end-to-end QA and user experience.
I would like to believe that that is a good idea. And perhaps it was, under Jobs' leadership. But under Cook, it's clear their focus has gone from "Maximizing QA" to "Maximizing Profits" and has thrown QA under the bus. Their current lineup seems to be the worst and buggiest that they have ever put out.
My current iPhone will likely be my last because I've run into frustrating bugs.
I'm still using a MBP from 2010, and while I want to say that I will never upgrade, the fact is that Microsoft has screw up Windows even more than Apple has screwed up MacOS ( I so regret upgrading to High Sierra). I will probably stick with MacOS for the forseeable future cause at least then I'm only getting screwed once in the wallet. If I buy a Windows machine I will get screwed over and over and over again for the lifetime of the entire machine. At least Apple hasn't managed to botch up updates so badly that the computer cannot boot anymore, unless what I've seen Microsoft do. Repeatedly.
If you wouldn't buy a HomePod under any circumstances; then you don't care what the repair costs are, or whether they are reasonable.
So you are nothing but spewing Apple Hate.
Thanks for identifying yourself. We're done here.
No, we're not done here. You know what, I really gotta know... Are you even for real?
When I've written past posts that is positive about Apple, you responded with back-slapping-preach-it-brother stuff. But then when I write a post criticizing Apple, you accuse me of being an Apple-hater.
So what am I? An Apple fan or a hater?
I'm currently typing on an Macbook Pro. In fact, I've been using Apple computers for over a decade. My last several phones were all iPhones. So am I a fan, or a hater?
I convinced almost every member in my family to buy Apple. I bought my parents Mac Minis for Christmas. So am I a fan, or a hater?
Well? What am I?
I mean, I could suggest that you think about it and maybe realize that the world isn't black or white, but I think that would probably be asking too much.
I would similarly guess that it is beyond your ability to understand that a consumer product company is not a religious institution and shouldn't be treated like one.
Can you at least admit that people purchase/use products via specific criteria (sometimes even solid practical ones) other than mindless obedience to a brand?
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I don't miss having an HDMI port in a laptop, because most of the time you do not need an HDMI port.
Just because YOU don't need one doesn't mean nobody else does.
Every single person I know uses their laptop as their primary computing device, which means when they get to their desks they plug their laptop into external monitors, keyboards, etc. Then if they have a meeting they disconnect and take their machine to the meeting. Etc etc. This is so shockingly common I'm amazed you have the audacity to say what you said.
Perfectly spoken as someone who doesn't have to do this for a living.
Assuming one is willing to buy such a frighteningly cheap adapter (I would trust an offer from a Nigerian Price before this thing...), you *still* need to buy one for every user that will need one. You'd also need one in *every* conference room because people will invariably forget them. And then you need to buy an additional handful of spares for when they're lost or broken. And I will bet you money that those super-cheap adapters will fail a heck of a lot more often than one that costs $30+.
So we're no longer talking $10. We're talking several hundred dollars of needless expense, and that's for a small company. Not to mention a regular additional cost over time as the dongles are replaced.
Meanwhile, EVERY display device in the past 10+ years has HDMI. Almost EVERY computer, apart from Apple, has an HDMI port. The only additional cost would be the HDMI cable, and that's only if you bought a cheap one that didn't include a cable already in the box.
Dongles are additional unnecessary expense. They are additional unnecessary hassle for both users AND the admin staff having to buy the things. Dongles have a place for when you want to use something uncommon (eg: firewire) or if the laptop is so absurdly thin that the desired port won't physically fit without compromising the case (eg: VGA or Ethernet), but requiring dongles for connecting to very commonly used items like HDMI, or USB3 ports is downright idiotic.
I don't get this stance. Virtually *everything* used in North America comes from China. Even precious American darlings like Apple make all their stuff in China and ship it over.
If the US gov't is so worried about Chinese influence, maybe they shouldn't have allowed the overwhelming majority of it's manufacturing capacity to be moved overseas?
IMO the 2016 are the worst in a steadily worsening lineup. They have turned computers into ludicrously expensive, laughably limited, unrepairable appliances. I am still using my macbook from 2010. I was able to upgrade the ram to 16GB. I was able to replace the hard drive with an SSD. I can't change the battery trivially myself, which is annoying, but apart from that the machine still runs reasonably well for virtually all my workloads except for high-end gaming.
Now? You can't repair *anything* on the machine. Everything is soldered. Not only that, you can't *plug* anything into the machine either unless you buy expensive dongles. So now, for example, everybody needs to maintain a stock of dongles in every meeting room because nobody makes TVs and projectors with USB-C/TB3 connectors.
The only reasons Apple is doing as well as it is on the computer front is because a) you can't develop iOS apps without one, and b) Microsoft has fucked up Windows so utterly badly that people now have a very strong incentive to jump ship.
If Microsoft every manages to pull it's head out of its rear and come up with a Windows strategy that isn't stupid, Apple is gonna be in trouble.
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I'd love some wine, thank you!
Apart from that, Obvious troll is still obvious.
Obvious troll is yet still obvious.
The only reason you would even consider saying that is because you have no idea of history. Microsoft already tried to pull the "everything is an app" idea. The end result was an unmitigated nightmare. Ditto for Adobe with their earlier versions of PDF. This is why most modern email clients ignore script by default, and most decent emails clients won't permit downloading of data external to the email without the user explicitly clicking a button to do so (or setting up a whitelist, etc).
There is a REASON why anyone with an ounce of security expertise say that there must be a clear line of separation between data and executable code. There is not one single example of where this design *hasn't* bitten people in the ass.
And now Google wants to recreate the exact same nightmare because they're stuck in this infantile "Won't that be SO COOL!?" mindset and is no longer able to consider the already well established consequences of their actions.
This is as moronic as their idea to allow the browser to bypass the operating system and have direct access to bluetooth hardware.
Just because the idea is blatantly self-serving, doesn't mean it's wrong in general.
Yes, Google may indirectly benefit from HTTPS everywhere. However, HTTPS everywhere IS needed, because the parade of malicious actors never stops and every layer of security we add can only be a good thing.
Obvious troll is still obvious.
Obvious troll is obvious.
Yes, and the general opinion of car dealerships that they're sleazy crooked bastards that will soak you for as much as they can get away with. Nobody goes back to a dealership for repairs unless it's under warranty or if there are some special circumstances. If that's that kind of negative reputation Apple wants to cultivate, then all the power to them.
The problem is that Apple is trying to have their cake and eat it too. They want to charge ridiculous money for repairs AND deny people the ability to repair things themselves. And that is NOT ok. This attitude (Not just Apple but many others, including John Deer I believe...) is exactly why "right to repair" legislation is popping up all over the place, and IMO it can't come fast enough.
And no, I have no idea what the repair costs are for the homepod. Not do I really, care, to be honest, because I will never buy one of the ridiculous things. My point is that, based on my own experience, if said poster is being hyperbolic it's probably not by much.
Huh. I've never heard of Maui linux. Looks interesting.
As for the rest of your post, I wish slashdot let you mod and comment at the same time because I would totally mod you insightful. Instead I'll just say you make compete sense, with one exception: Linux software is only easy to manage if it's already curated by the distro repository. If it isn't, then it's a a shot in the dark.
Whoop! My apologies. Apparently I fumbled my 'reading comprehension' roll.
You're completely correct. The only frustrating problem is that those are very specifically curated machines, tailored for running a specific version of linux designed to play games. Linux is fantastic when you have a vested interest like Valve who has the resources to curate the distribution AND has the clout to push it forward. But that really emphasizes just how bad the generic distributions are at playing nicely. I haven't actually tried to use SteamOS. Can you use it as a generic desktop OS? (eg: run an office suite, browser, open a terminal, etc)
And just to be clear, it's not that I "can't" make it work for me. It's that I *won't* make it work for me. In other words, I resent that I have to put my sysadmin hat on just to make my OS behave in a reasonable manner. Just for one example, and I can't remember which distribution this was, but I tried to add an arbitrary application (Franz) to the program menu. It wasn't provided in a package form. There was literally no way to "just" add it to the program menu. My only option was to look up how to create a .desktop file, configure it properly, and then sudo to root and put it somewhere under /usr/share. That is, to be blunt, fucking idiotic, and I that was when I decided that gnome was a hopeless pile of shit that is nowhere near ready for prime time.
You name a distro and I can probably give you a horror story about how whatever I was doing ground to a screeching halt and I had to put my sysadmin hat on and do some funky reconfiguration, whether it was difficulty getting the spdif port working properly, trying to get an application to full screen on the non-primary display, or some other nonsense that you can do on any other major OS without so much as a second thought. I have more than enough other things to do with my life that I simply don't have the patience to deal with software that forces me to bludgeon it into submission.
Similarly, I gave up on Android (and went to iOS) after my Samsung S3 because I was effectively forced to root the phone and install cyanogenmod, just to get the phone to operate reasonably. Since then, Google has apparently decided to finally pull it's head out of their collective asses and realize that neither manufacturers nor developers could be trusted to do the right thing, and are finally taking control back with decent permissions, strict execution requirements and a HAL. I'm nw waiting anxiously for the next generation of mainstream phones that ship with v8.1, because Apple appears to have forgotten what attracted people to their platform and decided bullshit is now an acceptable thing.
Thank you for proving every word of my post.
It doesn't have to be that way.
Except that it IS different. PS3 is a single platform. There is exactly one PS3, with maybe a couple variations. Ditto with the XBox. There isn't that much variation.
Linux? Distros don't even TRY to maintain any sort of compatibility between each other. The LSB was supposed to provide a minimum baseline for the different distros to help fix the hideous fragmentation of the ecosystem, and they couldn't even manage THAT.
The linux community is full of so many special snowflakes that have to be unique that Linux is beyond any hope of providing a consistent baseline. Hell, look at the idiocy going on with systemd for an example of how the linux community goes out of it's way to put a tempest in every teacup, resulting is an an ecosystem so fractured that Android looks simple by comparison.
I've tried to use Linux as a desktop OS. Several times. Every single time I've had to abandon it cause Linux is a PITA to use for general end-user tasks unless you only work within the limited garden a distro happens to provide for you.
And this will not change until people pull their heads out of their collective asses and realize that they all need to work together, that they need to compromise, to make Linux less fragmented and make it easier for manufacturers and other software developers to target.
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