R Sierra License Prejudice Reasons

I thought I would have lots of trouble using Ubuntu but I find 16.04 surprisingly smooth and easy to use.

Apple machines historically have sat at a sweet spot of convenience, power, and utility.

R Sierra License Prejudice Reasons

And (for claimed license prejudice reasons) the lauded OSXmacOS Unix userland is woefully out of date (try bash --version in an Apple Terminal; it is about 10 years out of date).

But our next purchase is likely a Linux laptop with the addition of a legal copy of Windows inside a virtual machine (for commercial software not available on Linux).

It has been a while since Apple last sparked joy around here, and if Linux works out we may have a few Apple machines sitting on the curb with paper bags over their heads (Marie Kondos advice for humanely disposing of excess inanimate objects that see, such as unloved stuffed animals with eyes and laptops with cameras).

My reasons were vain hopes the OSX spinny would go away, and having to interoperate with Keynote users themselves running macOS Sierra (which has a different version of Keynote).

I havent really noticed that many differences (I think Grab can now export PNG, the volume control can now send system sound to networked devices), and the upgrade was fairly painless.

As expected the upgrade broke a lot of software I use to actually work.

Searching around on the web I think I found enough fixes to restore functionality.

Also Homebrew (a source of non-decade out of date PosixUnix software) is likely still catching up to macOS Sierra.

The fix is to add a file called config to your.ssh directory with the following contents.

Also, I have no good documentation on these features, I presume it is the UseKeychain argument doing all the work.

Fixing Java seems to take some combination of all of the steps cobbled together from here and here.

That is just a matter of downloading and installing from (despite it claiming not to be for Sierra).

I think Homebrew is not yet officially supporting macOS Sierra, but some combination of the following seemed to bring it back (the sudo commands were all suggested by brew doctor, run at your own risk).

I would suggest re-installing and testing complicated software environments such as VirtualBox, docker and Anaconda before upgrading too many machines.

I jumped ship in December, switching to a ThinkPad with Ubuntu Win10 dual boot.

Imagine if the new Macbook Pro had a monochrome screen and a color touch bar.

In fact it is obvious that not having touch on the primary screen also is not mitigated by having touch on the touch bar.

Or: a small strip on the bottom of a touch screen can emulate a touch strip, but a touch strip can not emulate a touch screen; therefore a touch screen dominates a touch strip.

I presume the chain of dongles (USB-C to wrong format connector, to second adapter, and then to projector) failed to propagate the necessary Im awake change modes handshakes.

I went with a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (works great out-of-the-box with Ubuntu).

Different from others, I never 100 loved Mac so was waiting for a good time to switch.

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