> On Jan 26, 2022, at 1:58 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apple sometimes sacrifices comparability with old software to achieve OS > advances. Microsoft does as well. No one is forced to upgrade to a new OS or > a new computer. Neither “breaks” software or machines.
Depends on your definition of “force” or “break”. There are a lot of features on LR 6 that stopped working, mapping and facial recognition. Even without changing the OS. I think it has something to do with licenses that expired and Adobe didn’t renew. Similarly security flaws are detected, and do not get fixed in older versions of the OS. There are a lot of compelling reasons that one might need to update some bit of software, application or OS. At some point Apple not only won’t update the old OS, but refuses to allow you to install newer versions of the OS on the hardware. Similarly I have several applications that I bought from Adobe that I cannot run, photoshop and In-Design in particular. I quite liked In-design for the one or two photo books that I used it for, didn’t have time to learn it better, then when I went back to use it for something else, it wouldn’t run, wouldn’t install. I don’t remember how much I paid for it, but I basically was able to use it for two books. It is something that I might have use for once every few years, but in retrospect that was money that I wasted. I am also running into similar issues with running X-rite code for the color-munki. In order to calibrate my display I had to update my CMP from High Sierra to Mojave, which broke a lot of stuff, but Apple won’t let me update it to Catalina or Big Sur. With my new video card and Open Core, it should be able to run the newer systems, but I ran into issues. When I posted something about that on the support forums I got a note that such things are not allowed and they deleted my question. Interestingly, I don’t seem to have this problem with the software on my Linux boxes. > > Paul > >> On Jan 26, 2022, at 4:12 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yesterday it was a poster complaining that Apple broke their compatability >> with Lightroom, today its complaining that they broke compatability with >> Epson. >> Just a question, but why do people insist that Apple is a superior product >> when they break shit all the time? Over the years I’ve briefly used Windows as few times on work computers. The experience was incredibly unpleasant, and unlike macs you don’t have access to a nice intuitive bash (now zsh) prompt. At one point, when I got a new computer I would often set it up dual boot until I realized that I never bothered to boot into Windows. Where my Linux installations were practically plug and play, the Windows installations were a huge mess, particularly with hardware that was more than a year or two old. I have also recently heard that the way MS registers your software, if you change the hardware in your computer it will lock you out, I’m not quite sure if/what you can do other than a complete re-install. Then there is the whole question of security and reliability on the various systems. Unfortunately, there is software I need that I can’t run on Linux which basically leaves me to choose between two unpleasant choices, and in my experience, Apple has been slightly less unpleasant. So in answer to your questions, superior is relative. -- Larry Colen [email protected]. sent from ret4est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
