Mac OS 10.15.x Notes

    To start with let me say the only reasons I use a Mac computer are
Cubase and Affinity Photo.  Cubase may be up for grabs because Reaper
is a pretty good DAW and they currently have a Linux beta version.  My
axe-to-grind relationship with Steinberg is that the upgrade to Cubase
10.5 Pro required that I upgrade from MacOS 10.13 to 10.15--Catalina.
That created a steaming pile of **&%$# on my desktop.  I came to Mac
World from 12 years working with Linux, FreeBSD, and Plan 9; granted,
fun time sinks that they were, they had no serious DAW and photo
processing was early GIMP: powerful but tough to learn, maintain, and
missing some features.  So, in 2007, or there abouts, I got a Mac.  My
last 5 years of using Linux required me to move back to Slackware--my
intro to Linux--because Red Hat, SuSe, Ubuntu, et al had decided they
wanted to be M$ or Apple more than anything else in the world.  Don't
get me wrong, I like Slackware, but Linux has become a little weird.
The BSD variations seem more Unix-like these days.  I digress.

    OK, let's get back to the evil OS, or at least the penultimate
evil OS, MacOS 10.x.x.  Let's face it, Apple's a contender but M$
still rules the computer Deep Evil world.

    For Mac users who like to work with old Unix/Linux/BSD tools,
you're officially screwed.  Slowly, since Leopard, they've been
killing off apps like gcc, bash, and now, emacs.  There's a GUI
version online that has a Ruby launcher ... GUI and Ruby for god's
sake.  So far it doesn't launch anything and I'm stuck with a GUI
interface to emacs.  %$#&!!!.

    I'm waiting to see when Apple kills off Libre Office, X11, and
then starts killing off 3rd party, commercial software like Cubase,
Affinity Photo, etc..  I currently use no Apple apps that aren't
essential to the operation of their crap system; I don't use iTunes
(now called Music), Safari, Photos, Logic, no office suite offered by
Apple, Contacts, Calender, Mail, Messages, etc..  I use XLD, VLC,
Firefox, Affinity Photo, Cubase, Protonmail--which includes a calender
and a list of email contacts, LibreOffice, and some other odds and
ends.  I DO NOT USE AN IPHONE!  I use a cheap Android duhvice, even
though Google is a nasty collection of assholes, too.

    Stay tuned.  This is a work in progress; less tirade, more
specifics to come.