This reminds me of vegan bacon.
If you dont want to eat meat, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of eating meat?
If you dont want to use macOS, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of using macOS?
If you dont want to eat meat, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of eating meat?
If you dont want to use macOS, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of using macOS?
> If you dont want to eat meat, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of eating meat?
What is this taste, texture, and sensation of meat in regards to bacon you're talking about? Bacon is the opposite of the actual taste, texture, and sensation of meat. It's cooked, salted, and processed to give it that taste, texture, and sensation.
It's the same with people making fun of plant-based burgers and sausages. Well, guess what, burgers and sausages don't exist in nature, neither as meat nor plant. Well, actually... Cucumbers and a few other plants seem quite like sausages. Anyways. The burger, sausage, and bacon form factor is what makes it attractive. It's why people have liked it for so long, and why people like it still when they switch to a plant-based diet.
I guess it's the same reason why some people are into Airyx OS.
The fact that I could enjoy meat without any of those downsides is appealing to me :)
To this first one I have 2 points, 1. don't tell me what I want and don't want to do and 2. don't tell me what I want and don't want to do. For the second point, when did you become a burger defender.
Before being vegetarian I've always heard how annoying are vegans trying to convince you bla bla bla, while I know it's circumstantial, I've almost never had that experience, but when I stopped eating meat, I've had dozens of people tell me I'm wrong, doing harm, it's stupid, pointless and that I should reconsider my personal dietary choices.
Personally, I like a fair number of the "plant-based meats" that are out there. When I cook vegetarian I'm often interested in finding ways to get a satisfying taste without using a meat substitute, but that's because, well, I find it interesting. If I want a burger, I want a burger, and this whole "you can't name it after a thing that traditionally comes from animals if it doesn't come from an animal" nonsense is nonsense.
(And, as a long-time Mac user, I'm not sure it's entirely off-topic, as for many years I saw lots of people complaining about pushy smug Mac users always being pushy and smug at them, but saw very few Mac users actively being pushy and smug. It was pretty clear that just mentioning "oh, I use a Mac" was enough to set people off. The smug pushy Mac user was the one in their head.)
It's awful how very few in the tech community challenge Apple for their false privacy claims.
/Happy and productive onna Linux desktop
Enjoy the off topic comment chain.
- expensive.
- unergonomic.
- locked in.
I need macbook for work but I use Linux personally. Would be great if I could have native toolset on both.
Also there are hundreds of perfectly valid reasons to not want to support or deal with Apple.
And even more absurd to use this kind of argument in the software world. Imagine back then... „If you don‘t like Unix, why...“, or the first GUI implementations on Linux trying to achieve what apple or microsoft did... Oh well, what our hacker world would be like if more people thought that way...
Sorry, not trying to offend, but these projects are what I live for. „Stickin‘ it to the big guys“ - after all, we are hackers, aren‘t we?
Because the taste and texture of meat are pretty great, it's just that whole "raising and killing a sentient being" thing that's the problem.
The argument for something like Airyx is pretty similar: there are things to like about MacOS and things to not like about it, and it'd be great to get an alternative that has fewer negatives.
Also, note they because FreeBSD is orders of magnitude less bloated and organizationally convoluted, it’s easier to implement functionality you need.
If you're not an average endusers, and you don't need to support average endusers with all their gazillion hardware and software needs, that's not an issue, of course.