Moreover, other systems like FreeBSD, Solaris, illumos, QNX, Multics(!), Lisp machines, and many others have a significant leg-up on Linux in many technical areas. MacOS still has many kinks and quirks to be sure, but one of the main technical complaints that I had (the filesystem) is mitigated with APFS and OpenZFS. The state of Linux reminds me of this essay from the days of Unix yore. Not to mention the unholy licensing issues that pervade their community caused by the GPL. Honestly, Linux folks can sit there and criticize macOS all day long, but they really need to get their act together in terms of making their system palatable and sane.

Yes, I know the feeling, minus the embarrassment in front of Linux fans. Your mother told me she is very proud of you, by the way. But don't worry, you don't get to interact with my life again as I will never log into MacRumors again - why would I, when I can search literally all the posts without doing that. I suspect I am literally the only person who will read it. You are wasting your life typing up your snark.

So, now I know that ftp has actually been deleted, but of course I got that from the first post. I just search for stuff and skip past the snark to the actual information. There have been better alternatives to snarky internet fora for literally quite a long time. Because there is literally no other reason to use it, is there? Please try another service for transferring files.'?Ģ) How about instead of industrial grade snark, you literally suggest one of the better alternatives that has worked for you in a scripted context. And this is why we can't have nice things.ġ) How about a little 1 line script from Apple that says 'Command line FTP is no longer supported.

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