If people are arguing between 3 and 5 points just pick one and move on.

If people are arguing between 3 and 21 points there's a mismatch in understanding what the work entails.

It's used to justify jobs of scrum/pm people and I'm tired of being polite about it. Imagine we enter a tech company, decide it's LARPing time, and create DnD rules for a completely made up role and then pay someone to do it. That is literally what has been happening in the tech industry.

It’s probably the best at that on a fresh stock/retail install on supported hardware of Windows/macOS/Linux (Ubuntu).

I think you could copy/paste this excuse for the failings of every computer operating system since XP.

"Just enough" isn't going to cut it when the rest of the experience is subscription slopware, dark patterns and hidden advertisements. Microsoft doesn't get a free pass for it and neither does Apple - OSes weren't always like this!

Why is naming an OS differently when it is actually a different OS with shared features?

What, no A/UX or Mach?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)

Hey, you should pick up some carrier-grade Cisco routers and switches, and run IOS to tie 'em all together!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS

That’s spanning decades. The current lineup is highly consistent: macOS, iPadOS (I don’t think Apple uses a space here), tvOS, watchOS, audioOS all use product categoryOS.

homeOS doesn’t exist yet for the public, does it?

The only outlier is iOS, which should have been called phoneOS or iPhoneOS.

I think MacOS is simply a terrible UNIX environment, period. The BSD bones are good, but the XNU kernel itself is a disaster and the way Apple handles user isolation, package management and runtime idempotency borders on outright neglect. Kernel extensions are depreciated and no DKMS equivalent exists, 32-bit support gets axed overnight and even simple drivers can't be ported from other UNIX-likes to MacOS. No wonder Linux is considered a more serious standard, all the UNIXes are trying to fucking murder each other instead of progressing the POSIX standard!

It really does not "just work", unless you're treating the Mac like an iPad. 20 years ago the Mac compiled software just as good as anything else, today it can't install Vulkan headers because third-party software scares Apple. Simply holding Apple to the standards of their contemporaries reveals that they're paranoid and do not trust their users.

I didn't use to be a religious man. Then I started using git and now I understand the power of prayer.

The git model is great but the interface is not carefully designed.

I think if the interface were better, fewer people would be copy pasting git commands.

Next was so good at first with just the page router and ISR. That solved like 90% of common front-end headaches, especially compared to the hodgepodge of other React Frankensteins at the time.

Then they pivoted to the overengineered insanity that is RSC and the app router.

I have yet to see a project or developer use that to its potential. I don't know who they're targeting anymore, feels like some sort of mythical 100x developer who loves hyper optimizing every paragraph differently.

I work in support (for another company) now and several times a week I see Next users confused by all the different options. Their documentation isn't great at explaining all the differences either. They're moving way too fast and leaving all the developers behind and adding more and more black box magic optimized for Vercel hosting.

Enshittification as always, I suppose.

Maybe it's time to fork it into something simpler and stabler? I would be perfectly happy with Next from four or five years ago. Prev.js?