Another VM platform I've heard good things about (but not used personally) is XCP-ng:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCP-ng
(There's also OpenStack.)
And there's also Triton[0] and vanilla SmartOS[1] it's based on
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NexRebular commented on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
I guess now is the best time to switch to Linux. MacOS 26 being super sluggish and looking like a soap bubble game for children. Windows becoming a SkyNet OS. Meanwhile Steam just announced their new hardware on SteamOS, emphasizing that users still own their hardware and can install whatever they want.
And as linux is becoming more and more a corpo controlled monoculture, the time has never been better to switch to *BSD and illumos where true freedom awaits.
NexRebular commented on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? blog.johnozbay.com/what-h... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
I think it's a little more complicated than that. He wasn't at Apple from mid-1985 through the end of 1996, yet Apple's culture was still profoundly influenced by him in many ways. Many influential people who were hired pre-1985 were present at Apple during the Sculley, Spindler, and Amelio years. Even in the mid-1990s when Apple was spiraling down the drain, the Mac was still focused on usability and consistency.
However, it seems that under Tim Cook, Apple has gradually lost many of its traditional values when it comes to usability and UI/UX perfectionism. I suspect that the company has not passed on "The Apple Way" to people who joined the company after Steve Jobs' passing. Not only that, there doesn't seem to be an "Apple Way" anymore.
Come to think of it, the old Apple had figures like Bruce Tognazzini who wrote about "The Apple Way"; I have a copy of Tog on Interface that distills many of the UI/UX principles of the classic Mac. I can't think of any figures like Tog in the modern era.
Gradually the Apple software ecosystem is losing its distinctiveness in a world filled with janky software. It's still better than Windows to me, but I'd be happier with Snow Leopard with a modern Web browser and security updates.
It's sad; the classic Mac and Jobs-era Mac OS X were wonderful platforms with rich ecosystems of software that conformed to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines of those eras. I wish a new company or a community open-source project would pick up from where Apple left off when Jobs passed away.
>...I wish a new company or a community open-source project would pick up from where Apple left off...
There's the Hello System[0]... not sure if it counts.
NexRebular commented on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? blog.johnozbay.com/what-h... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
> But, man, Apple hardware still rocks. Can't deny that.
Ah yes, the Johnny Ive era of "no ports on Macbooks except USB-C, and hope you like touchbars!" was fantastic. Not to mention how heavy the damn things are. Oh and the sharp edges of the case where my palms rest. And the chiclet keyboards with .0001 mm of key travel. I'll take a carbon fiber Thinkpad with an OLED display any day of the week, thank you. Macbooks feel like user hostile devices and are the epitome of form over function.
I miss the Powerbook G3 series. That was some fantastically modular design.
Huge opportunity for Apple too.
for *BSD and illumos too
NexRebular commented on No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive idiallo.com/byte-size/say... · Posted by u/firefoxd
Davinci Resolve has official support for Linux
...and unofficial support for FreeBSD
https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/davinci-resolve-freebsd-ja...
NexRebular commented on NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System nfs40.online/... · Posted by u/signa11
Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be any decent alternative.
SMB is a nightmare to set up if your host isn’t running Windows.
sshfs is actually pretty good but it’s not exactly ubiquitous. Plus it has its own quirks and performs slower. So it really doesn’t feel like an upgrade.
Everything else I know of is either proprietary, or hard to set up. Or both.
These days everything has gone more cloud-oriented. Eg Dropbox et al. And I don’t want to sync with a cloud server just to sync between two local machines.
> SMB is a nightmare to set up if your host isn’t running Windows.
It's very easy on illumos based systems due the integrated SMB/CIFS service.
Spoiler, but the answer is basically that old hardware rules the day because it lasts longer and is more reliable of timespans of decades.
DDR5 32GB is currently going for ~$330 on Amazon
DDR4 32GB is currently going for ~$130 on Amazon
DDR3 32GB is currently going for ~50 on Amazon (4x8GB)
For anyone where cost is a concern, using older hardware seems like a particularly easy choice, especially if a person is comfortable with a Linux environment, since the massive droves of recently retired Windows 10 incompatible hardware works great with your Linux distro of choice.
...or you could go with FreeBSD. There's even a brand new release that just came out!
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/announce/