• mac@infosec.pub
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    Use Opencore. Apple stopping support for older devices makes logical sense, technology progresses, maintaining legacy devices can become tedious and leaves the team with less time to focus on their current devices and versions.

    Opencore allows you to update to the latest version of macOS even if not supported. However be aware that it isn’t Apple certified but an open source project so your mileage may vary.

    For your final point the Mac’s I have used have been incredibly capable machines that I’ve been able to configure endlessly and run a large variety of languages and tools without many issues. They have sane defaults, are configurable, powerful and they run smoothly.

    • herrvogel@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      6 months ago

      “they have sane defaults” is the most insane thing I heard about Macs. Their stupid fucking defaults is what I hate the most about macs. Example: enter key. Its default behavior is to RENAME a file while you have to hit a two key combo to open a file. That will never make sense to me. Might sound like a minor thing, but the whole system is so full of such small annoying things. At first I thought it was annoying because I was not used to that stuff, but I’ve been using a Mac for quite a while now and I still find the OS mostly annoying.

      • mac@infosec.pub
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        Perhaps rather than saying it’s stupid, you can just say “it’s not for me” as I stated I’ve been a long term Linux user, installing everything from Arch to Void, I even did a brief stint using LFS, I enjoy Linux however I prefer macOS, but I don’t go around saying I hate Linux because I don’t there is nothing wrong with it, i just prefer the way macOS works and that is a preference.

        Likely macOS is just not the correct choice for you.

    • you have to flip the mouse on it’s back to charg it how tf is that logical

      nevermind the fact that you don’t need to make legacy compatibility a hassle. The Darwin kernel should still maintain backwards compatibility and if it doesn’t then LMAO