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Macfuse remove5/28/2023 Granted, over the years I’ve slowly maxed out the hardware (SSD, maxed RAM, replaced 802.11G wireless card with a combo 802.11AC/Bluetooth 4.0 card, high capacity battery), but no “dicking around” necessary for it to run well under Linux. Elementary OS runs extremely well out of the box. I guess that would depend on how much time you spent dicking with it in order to optimize it, unless you have a lot more time than money (I am the opposite). So, my netbook from 2009 can run Linux and Windows OSes from 2016, whereas my iPad from 2010 is stuck at an OS from 2012, and without even the benefit of apps like Dropbox for file manipulation. It’s basically a browser-only device at this point. By constrast, I have a first generation iPad and it won’t even run iOS 6, which means nearly all apps have left it behind. Two, I was able to upgrade it to Windows 10 with zero issues, and while its performance under that OS doesn’t match Linux, it does allow me to run Windows binaries without resorting to WINE, if I so choose. ![]() That such an old device can outperform a current tablet as a complete computing device means hanging on to it all these years was worth it. As old as this device is, I can still get reasonable performance using a lightweight Linux distro, and it’s a full computing device (easy, robust file access, WIMP, etc). One, I have a netbook from the second generation of them, an Acer Aspire One that has a single core Atom CPU and came with Windows 7 Starter. I find it interesting that you mention netbooks on two levels. Given that the tablet market is stagnating quite quickly, one wonders whether we’ll look back on them as we do on netbooks within a couple of years. At the end of the day I was simply able to get my work done faster and with less bullshit on that 5 year old netbook running a real desktop than the latest Android tablet, its just a better platform all around. This is why I gave away my brand new quad core tablet and kept my little 5 year old dual APU netbook, because desktop OSes just get out of the way and allow me to work using the apps I want in the manner I want and because they are desktop apps they can all speak the same language, HTML, JPG, TXT, MP3, etc. I guarantee you that if I handed that guy, despite the fact he’s a Machead, one of those $120 Windows 2-in-1 tablet/laptop hybrids? He’d have had no problem doing those tasks because it runs a desktop OS which means that all the programs can talk to each other and share data, this is something these mobile OSes just do not seem to grasp and from the looks of it won’t be getting what we’ve taken for granted on the desktop anytime soon. ![]() Te me the real moral of the story is “mobile OSes are still toy OSes” and its really as simple as that. I agree with the conclusion, relying on add-on services to manage files is stupid, but why blame the nerds? While there are fanboys who defend whatever comes out of apple, many of “us nerds” aren’t afflicted by the RDF and have been criticizing this limitation as well as others from day one. Lecture me about the virtues of containers all you want, but there is no world in which having to use Dropbox as a temporary storage medium is a step forward. But the desktop acts as shared document storage, which is something it turns out normal people sometimes need, and iOS does not solve that problem. It’s us nerds who insist that iOS solves the “problem” of normal people who don’t understand the file system putting all their files on the desktop. Such designs focus on style, but result in a bad workflow. I agree, we just had an article about the perils of over-simplification getting in the way and making things more difficult. Or I can do what I did, which is use Dropbox as my “desktopâ€: go back to Pages, send a copy to Dropbox, then reply. If I don’t have the editor’s email address saved as a contact, I lose—I can’t switch back to the message I should be replying to. ![]() I must open the attachment in my email program and then use “Open in…†to send it to Pages, make changes, and…then what? I can send it back to Spark, my email program, from Pages, but only as a new message. ![]() On the iPad, everything happens in the context of an app.
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