It does some things really well, a work or personal desktop is neither of them.
If it doesn't work as a personal or work desktop, then what exactly does it do really well? Screensavers?
Because that does not support the baseless paranoid sky is falling attitude some people have here. The reality is gatekeeper will improve the experience for almost more Mac users and make macs more appealing for non Mac users.
You know, I don't have a problem with the gatekeeper. As long as you can turn it off, it's really a non issue to me. And yes, it will help on the security front, specially for those who aren't as tech savvy as (I assume) most of us are here. I'll use the MAS if and when I get a Mac, but I'll also go outside of it if I want to install something like ScummVM or an emulator. Programs that have no chance of landing on the app store.
The only thing I find goofy about it and the sandboxing thing is how all these people who claimed malware was a nonissue on OSX are suddenly screaming that these new additions are of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE! It just...just...boggles my mind that a whole group of people could go from complete dismissal of the subject, to acting like the situation is sitting at DEFCON 2, and it's only a matter of time before
the horrors are upon us all.
It's just weird.
Using Linux as a desktop requires too much time wasting to try and equal workflow on other oses. If you have a lot of time to waste fine but if you actually have work to do and want to get it done efficiently it is not a consideration. I use Linux for all sorts of things but not my work computer.
What? No. Linux doesn't have quite as smooth of an out-of-the-box experience as OSX, but it isn't a constant fight setting it up. You spend a couple of hours tweaking it after the initial install, and you're good to go for about forever.
Also none of the various linuxes are even close to being consumer friendly. Linux actually has fallen behind in that race. 10-12 years ago was probably as close as Linux ever got to being close to the consumer oses. It is not a legitimate option for almost all computer users these days.
Do wuuuhhhh? Are you saying Linux was MORE user friendly 10-12 years ago? Back then, you had to manually install each and every part of the OS you wanted to use from the terminal, and wait 15 hours for it to compile. Now? For the more consumer oriented Linux distros, it's click 4 buttons and get a snack. How can you actually suggest otherwise?
The only thing wrong with Linux these days is the lack of high end commercial apps. A big problem, admittedly. But if they were to suddenly start showing up tomorrow, I guarantee you'd have whole slews of pro shops doing all their work on it, and doing it as easily as they do on their Macs.
It is weird people are freaking out about this NOW. Who cares what apple does in five years? How does that impact what you do now? We know that for at LEAST the next 18 months none of these doomsday scenarios were even something to think about. People are getting worked up about nothing, even if their worst nightmares came true it would not impact anyone for several years. In computer time that is forever.
It's not so much freaking out and being paranoid so much as it is extrapolating 30 years of Apple history. And, you know, if the worst case scenario does come to pass, it really won't bother all that many people. There will be a few that are left out. People who want to do clever things with their machines, like write drivers for a 3D printer they built in their basement. People wanting to write emulators. People wanting to take advantage of all the excess horsepower modern computers provide to do something grand. Who knows what they'll do. They haven't thought of it yet.
These are things that won't be possible if Apple implements an sandboxed App Store only approach, and only allows certified software to run on your...er...I mean their computer. But they're a minority though, right? What does it matter if these clever people are left out? So long as the vast majority able to use their word processors in peace, then it's not a problem. That's the price you pay for a well designed, secure OS, right?
Yeah. And all these smart people who would otherwise use their Macs to do great things will jump ship and run to an OS that hasn't gimped its potential and their potential for the sake of the lowest common denominator.
Is this really what you want?
