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Mac 的回归（2005）
Return of the Mac (2005)
2011 — 2021，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
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Paul Graham 2005 年写的文章，讨论 Apple 如何凭借 Mac OS X 的 Unix 内核与出色的硬件设计重新吸引开发者，并预测 Mac 会在黑客/技术人群中复兴。文章把 Mac 的回归放进 PC 与 Unix 的历史脉络里，观察操作系统、设计品味和开发者选择之间的关系。
为什么经久不衰：它提前捕捉到 Mac 在开发者群体中的回归，并用“CS 系里流行什么，十年后普通人就用什么”这类洞察把科技趋势讲得简洁，今天读来既是科技史也是产品判断。
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macOS 对开发者吸引力极强，但 Apple 的创新乏力让他担忧。
原因当然是 OS X。PowerBook 设计漂亮，底层是 Unix/FreeBSD，还需要知道什么？公告之后我甚至失眠，反复考虑替代硬件；但事实是，macOS 是当今对开发者最友好的操作系统（我是在泛指开发者，嵌入式和 HDL 开发除外）。Web 和移动开发就是更顺，出问题有庞大支持体系，最坏开车不到一小时去 Apple Store。我喜欢 MacBook Pro 的玻璃触控板、背光键盘和屏幕，但我绝对需要 macOS。现在只希望出现一个能在现成硬件（如 Dell XPS）上完美运行、真正有竞争力的 Linux 发行版，但还没到那一步。我大概早该看到警告信号，最大的是 macOS Sierra 让我毫无升级理由，Apple 似乎困在“创新”回音室里。
catskull查看英文原文
> The reason, of course, is OS X. Powerbooks are beautifully designed and run FreeBSD. What more do you need to know? This. I have actually lost sleep since the announcement. I keep going over in my mind alternate hardware, but the fact is that macOS (OS X) is the single best operating system for developers today. I am generalizing "developers". For any embedded development, or HDL stuff, OS X will not be a nice experience. But for web or mobile development (which I anticipate is quite larger than development that could not be done in OS X), it's just better. Things work. If the don't, there is a massive support system in place and worst case scenario you can drive <1hr to an Apple store and let them take care of it. Sure, there are edge cases there as well, but compared to the ultrabook you bought from Costco or any distribution of linux, you have much more support available. I do love my macbook pro (glass trackpad, backlit keyboard, good display), but I absolutely must have macOS. At this point my only hope is that a new distribution of Linux evolves that can seriously compete and works flawlessly on off the shelf hardware (such as the Dell XPS), but we're not there yet. Elementary OS looks promising. Perhaps developers would fork Darwin completely and make a macOS competitor. I guess I should have seen the warning signs. The biggest was macOS Sierra that offered me no reason to upgrade. Apple seems to be stuck inside of an "innovation" echo chamber. Innovating for the sake of innovating. Sorry for the wall of text, but if you have any suggestions for me, please share them.
Apple 拉高了整个 PC 笔记本的做工与配置标准。
作为一个长期 PC 用户，我很感激 Apple 出色的产品在过去十年里推动 PC 笔记本市场同时关注做工质量和高端配置，最明显的是 Dell XPS 和 Lenovo/ThinkPad X1 系列。
meritt查看英文原文
As a longtime PC user, I'm very thankful how the excellent Apple offerings really propelled the PC laptop market over the past decade to focus on both build quality and high-end specs, most notably Dell XPS and Lenovo/Thinkpad X1 series.
Windows 仍有小毛病，SIP/Gatekeeper 并不可怕，Mac 原生应用生态是回归理由。
在必然出现的关于 Apple 的 macOS 举措以及黑客“潮流” supposedly 转向反对 Apple 的评论之前，我先说两句。我 2019 年底从 2015 款 MBP 换到 Surface Book 2，几个月前又换回同一台用了六年的 MBP。简而言之，虽然 WSL 让 Windows 比过去好很多，但我发现那些老毛病仍在。我经常在标准 DPI 显示器和便携模式（高 DPI/“视网膜”屏）之间切换，2019 年就发现 Windows 在切换 DPI 时不能正确处理窗口边框、资源管理器和通知，这个问题今年早些时候仍然存在。我受够了 Windows 的各种小毛病，于是换回旧 Mac。结果发现 SIP 和 Gatekeeper 并不像我被引导相信的那样麻烦，一次都没妨碍我；Big Sur 的界面变化我也喜欢上了。换回来后，我发现很多优秀的原生应用在 Windows 上根本没有对应物，OmniFocus 尤其突出，而且 Homebrew 依然存在且工作良好。
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Before the inevitable comments regarding Apple's moves with macOS and how the hacker 'tide' is supposedly turning back against Apple, I think I'll chime in with my two cents. I switched from my 2015 MBP to a Surface Book 2 at the end of 2019, and switched back to my same, six-year-old MBP just a few months ago. To keep things short, whilst WSL puts Windows miles ahead of where it once was, I find that the same old rough-edges still remain. I often dock between standard-DPI displays and portable mode (with the high-DPI/'retina' display.) I first noticed that Windows doesn't correctly handle DPI switching with window borders, Explorer, and notifications back in 2019 (the old 2x scaling level remains when switching from portable to docked), and filed a feedback with the built-in app on Windows. I worked around this by killing dwm.exe and explorer.exe every time I docked my Surface. This issue was still present earlier this year, and deciding I had enough of dealing with all these little Windows 'quirks', wherever they arose, I switched back to my old Mac. It turns out that SIP and Gatekeeper aren't nearly as much of a problem as I was led to believe, neither of these features have hampered me once. The Big Sur interface changes, whilst I thought I'd never get used to them, have actually grown on me. Since switching back, I've discovered a lot of quality native apps that simply have no analog on Windows–OmniFocus stands out here. And as always, Homebrew still exists and works just as well as it always has for most of my *nix related tasks. Hearing about the M1 performance improvements, I can see myself staying on Mac for quite some time yet–I'll upgrade to an M1 MacBook Air once this 2015 MBP (six years old!) kicks the bucket. Edit: For some context, I'm mainly a .NET developer. .NET Core/5 is a game-changer for cross-platform and development is first class on really any system nowadays. I've settled on JetBrains Rider for my IDE and find myself generally happier than I was with VS on Windows.
PG 关于 CS 系风向预示未来的判断至今仍然成立。
满是金句，而且与今天形成对比/可类比之处：“如果你想知道普通人十年后会用电脑做什么，就去好大学的计算机系里走走。他们在做什么，你将来就会做什么。”
ianai查看英文原文
Chock full of golden material and contrast/comparable points to today: "If you want to know what ordinary people will be doing with computers in ten years, just walk around the CS department at a good university. Whatever they're doing, you'll be doing. "
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