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Interesting. Generally the components in different manufacturers' laptops are subsets of the same set of options: Intel, AMD, NVidia, Broadwell, etc. Using the

Interesting. Generally the components in different manufacturers' laptops are subsets of the same set of options: Intel, AMD, NVidia, Broadwell, etc. Using the same components, I'd expect all manufacturers have similar ranges of variation and rates of change. There are corporate machines that promise platform stability for 1-5 years in order to give enterprise IT more standardized platforms to support, but I'd be surprised if many FOSS projects targeted those models.

dv_dt 10y ago
There's a small community of Linux on Mac hardware hackers because they have the slowest rate of change and fewest models to support. In comparison all the PC makers are high rates of churn and configurability. If there were a Mac class hardware build that integrated out of the box with Linux that showed reasonable product-line stability, I'd be buying that in a heartbeat. The corporate machines may be more stable, but generally they're tied to corporate sales channels that aren't built to be accessed by individual buyers.
- hackuser 10y ago
  > There's a small community of Linux on Mac hardware hackers because they have the slowest rate of change and fewest models to support. Interesting; I hadn't thought how Apple's culture of minimizing complexity for users would benefit even FOSS. > The corporate machines may be more stable, but generally they're tied to corporate sales channels that aren't built to be accessed by individual buyers. IME: You just have to look hard for those with platform stability; it's not prominently advertised and your non-corporate sales rep will have no idea what you are talking about. But once you find one, you can buy it online direct or through many channels, at least SMB channels (e.g., Connection.com); it's just not available from Best Buy or Staples. Come to think of it, I would think the FOSS operating system community would happily adopt them.

dv_dt 10y ago

There's a small community of Linux on Mac hardware hackers because they have the slowest rate of change and fewest models to support. In comparison all the PC makers are high rates of churn and configurability. If there were a Mac class hardware build that integrated out of the box with Linux that showed reasonable product-line stability, I'd be buying that in a heartbeat. The corporate machines may be more stable, but generally they're tied to corporate sales channels that aren't built to be accessed by individual buyers.

hackuser 10y ago
> There's a small community of Linux on Mac hardware hackers because they have the slowest rate of change and fewest models to support. Interesting; I hadn't thought how Apple's culture of minimizing complexity for users would benefit even FOSS. > The corporate machines may be more stable, but generally they're tied to corporate sales channels that aren't built to be accessed by individual buyers. IME: You just have to look hard for those with platform stability; it's not prominently advertised and your non-corporate sales rep will have no idea what you are talking about. But once you find one, you can buy it online direct or through many channels, at least SMB channels (e.g., Connection.com); it's just not available from Best Buy or Staples. Come to think of it, I would think the FOSS operating system community would happily adopt them.