I don’t know much about a Linux but I would guess it’s only rarely updated. If it had all the capability you need, you wouldn’t have to worry about the policy of other OS providers.
Paul > On Jan 26, 2022, at 5:24 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 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. -- %(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.
