> Maybe you have more experience with Linux than I? Or maybe more patience? Or time? Or maybe I'm wrong? Regardless, for my multiple attempts over the course of

> Maybe you have more experience with Linux than I? Or maybe more patience? Or time? Or maybe I'm wrong? Regardless, for my multiple attempts over the course of months trying to make it work, I couldn't stand it. Or... maybe different expectations? I never had audio 'just work' on various linux laptops from 2002-2008. Playing some music (amarok, whatever), then the IM client (pidgin or whatever) would make a ping, and ... music would stop. Not possible to play again until killing IM client. Oh wait... dude, don't use pulse! Use ALSA! No, wait... use the latest dev build of pulse! just upgrade your entire system! No... dude, just grab a binary from this site... Holy crap, you want to plug in an external monitor? xrandr, kxrandr, go edit config files, install some new Xorg libs, etc. Coming from that world, the Macbook world "just works". Yes, it's gotten a bit worse over time (2016 letdowns, etc). But I still have colleagues who spend far too much time making basic stuff work in various linuxes. This is normally the point in the story where people either say "you did it wrong" or "yeah, dude, i feel your pain - it used to be bad, but... ubuntu 'just works' and is great now'. Trouble is, I heard that years ago too ("hey yeah, it used to suck, but it's better now") and... it wasn't any better. After going through various laptops (cheap and expensive) never having a decent "just works" experience (out of the box: printer, wifi, external monitor, audio in/out, playing dvd movies and writing to dvd all just working)... I gave up. For people with different expectations (thinking that rebooting your session to edit an Xconfig file to get multi monitor support is acceptable, for example), they'll never believe there's anything wrong.