A Better OS
These are all valid reasons to hark back to a more configurable, free, and fun OS, yet they’re not the reason why I’m frustrated with modern operating systems—in my case, Sonoma. Here’s a short list of grips:
- Did you know that your laptop never sleeps, even if it is put to sleep as you close the lid? At 3 AM in the morning, it’s still firing away HTTP calls to various servers according to my Pi-Hole, such as fetching weather data for a widget I have tried to disable countless times.
- Every single time I want to open a file, a five-second-beachball effect occurs thanks to an unresponsive Open And Save Panel Service. After hours of poking and prying, I gave up.
- Every single upgrade comes with bigger and badder icons, taskbars, titlebars I haven’t asked for.
- Every single upgrade comes with gigabytes full of bloat that I cannot uninstall. On that moment, I wish I could fire up openSUSE’s YaST and simply uncheck most stuff.
- Yes, I am sure I want to run this binary. No, I do not want to restart this app. Ah okay, you are restarting the app? But I said—okay, never mind.
https://brainbaking.com/post/2024/05/i-miss-bsd-linux/
There is growing discontent with the status quo. When I wrote about the great Linux opportunity, this was my point. Whether you are working on a Windows environment or a MacOS environment, increasingly people are not happy with the decisions Microsoft and Apple are making on behalf of their users.
I still say there's an opportunity for an alternative, whether it looks like Linux of today or something entirely different.