1st December 2017, 17:35
Here's the thing.
I'm not paying anything for Maui, so besides being an extremely satisfied user, I don't have a lot of influence on what the maintainers choose to do or how to spend their time.
That being said, I will reiterate. For the record, my microcomputer experience goes back to the S-100 bus days & I've seen a lot of OSs. Some worked better than others. Some let you crash in more than one application at a time, and keep working. Some of them were seriously finicky to maintain. Others I figured weren't worth it, and I promptly retrograded to something that worked beter.
Out of all the Linux distros I've putzed with, Maui has *the* closest out-of-the box experience to Mac OS X. It just works (at least for me). I can install it on a variety of computer processor types without much fuss or muss. It works quite well. It's one of the few Linux distros I can turn a complete newby loose upon, and not worry.
So it came as a surprise to me when the maintainers started making noises about discontinuing Maui. I understand why they might want to do that, but I think there has to be some better way to go forward besides this path.
I'm not paying anything for Maui, so besides being an extremely satisfied user, I don't have a lot of influence on what the maintainers choose to do or how to spend their time.
That being said, I will reiterate. For the record, my microcomputer experience goes back to the S-100 bus days & I've seen a lot of OSs. Some worked better than others. Some let you crash in more than one application at a time, and keep working. Some of them were seriously finicky to maintain. Others I figured weren't worth it, and I promptly retrograded to something that worked beter.
Out of all the Linux distros I've putzed with, Maui has *the* closest out-of-the box experience to Mac OS X. It just works (at least for me). I can install it on a variety of computer processor types without much fuss or muss. It works quite well. It's one of the few Linux distros I can turn a complete newby loose upon, and not worry.
So it came as a surprise to me when the maintainers started making noises about discontinuing Maui. I understand why they might want to do that, but I think there has to be some better way to go forward besides this path.