I can install Linux or Windoze on hardware I assemble myself. That
appears to me to be the only advantage over Apple OS.
Before the switch to Apple's own CPU chips, you could install Apple OS
on your own hardware (assuming it was Intel hardware similar to that
which Apple used), even though Apple went to great lengths to discourage
you from doing so.
On 1/27/2022 2:47 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Adobe stopped development and maintenance on LR 6.x, the last perpetual license
version of LR, long long ago now. Things started breaking because the SPI of
various subcomponents went out of date and were increasingly no longer
compatible with both the macOS frameworks and the Adobe developed libraries
that they relied upon.
Adobe stopped this development and maintenance because they intended to move
their customer base to subscription model software and only kept that line of
the app development active.
Apple is the only large-scale provider of entirely integrated hardware/software
systems, and nets advantages with combined hardware/software development
difficult to achieve with the de-coupled hardware and OS/software development
model that Linux uses. That decoupled model has other advantages for some
purposes, notably big server farms which generally are not selling software
where the individual user experience and 'bleeding edge' user features are
important. When macOS development is re-tuned to use hardware features that do
not exist on earlier systems, the earlier hardware can no longer support using
the new OS.
Linux is a good OS, but it's never "bleeding edge" on feature development nor
does it support the kind of user experience that macOS is tuned for. Trade-offs …
Of course, whinging and whining about which operating system brand is better
just seems so 1990s… LOL!
G
On Jan 26, 2022, at 2:24 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.
[snippage]
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