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I Almost Rage Bought a MacBook Pro

• herbst 10y ago
  Based on 4 of 5 of your points: * An extremely polished OS that feels smooth and is rock solid * An OS that doesn’t phone home with sensitive information regularly * Flawless support for multiple monitors and virtual desktops / workspaces * Unix(ish) based solution for all development related libraries and tools Why the hell is "You can run Windows with a Linux VM approach similar to mine" a reasonable choice?
  • nickjj 10y ago
    It fits that criteria, although I should have written *nix. Windows gets a lot of flack but it's honestly pretty stable. I haven't had a BSOD in like 10 years and I routinely have 100+ days of uptime without performance degradation. That's 100+ days of heavy development, virtual machines, recording screencasts, etc..
    • herbst 10y ago
      Dont have enough experience with it to deny that. But it sends data home, works only suboptimal with multiple screens (given better than mac, but not as smooth as Gnome + X) and depending on unix while only having it in a VM sounds far from optimal too. If its polished and feels smooth is probably depending on who looks at it.