> On Jan 8, 2023, at 12:27 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jan 7, 2023, at 11:59 PM, Bob W PDML <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 8 Jan 2023, at 02:05, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>> The symlink worked for many years, through many generations of MacOS, I >>>>> don't understand why it broke. >>> >>> -- >> If it’s any consolation, Larry, I had a symlink go bad on me in Windows >> about 10 years ago. > > Over the past few years, as I became ever more disenchanted with Apple, I was > considering getting a Windows machine for my commercial software needs. Apart > from any complaints I have with their software, ever since about 2015 their > hardware offerings demonstrated ever more clearly that I am not their target > demographic. Their notebooks got slimmer, impossible to upgrade, or change at > all, and they removed so many hardware features and ports, that by the time > you made it usable you had spent a thousand dollars on dongles and you had > more hardware hanging off the laptop than there was laptop. It took them > forever to come out with a real mac pro again, and when they did it was > priced beyond my feasible hopes. > > Then last March, I started a new job and for a couple of months I used > Windows 10 as my daily machine. That cured me of any desire to use Windows at > home.
It's obvious to me, Larry, that you are not a macOS user … you buy the machines purely because Apple has a BSD Unix interface embedded into macOS. Otherwise your "twenty years of using Macs" would demonstrate a lot more familiarity with actual macOS features and workflow methodologies. macOS is *not* about the command-line processing in the Terminal app, or bash, or emacs, or any of that stuff. Those are the underpinnings of macOS, not the user interface of macOS. A macOS user that needs to edit a particular expression across a whole bunch of files doesn't use the Finder, obviously, because the Finder isn't intended for such an operation. They might use a standalone code editor (BBEdit and others), they might use Automator, they might use the Apple development system (Xcode) and all its editing features. They would only use the Terminal app and command line operations if their work and expertise was confined to running a Unix system. I'm sorry you didn't find a Windows 10 environment more pleasing to you. That means you need to buy generic hardware and install Linux on it, rather than waste your time (and everyone else's) complaining about macOS and Apple products. G -- %(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.
