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I recently got myself a GPD Pocket, which is a great little laptop with many of the same ethos as Apples' MacBook product line .. unibody, great screen. Intere

by mmjaa 9y ago

I recently got myself a GPD Pocket, which is a great little laptop with many of the same ethos as Apples' MacBook product line .. unibody, great screen. Interesting keyboard. (Takes some getting used to.) Well, I blew away Windows and put Ubuntu Studio on it and its now my main goto computer - replacing the very expensive MacBook Pro I typically use. I think that there is really no need to go the Hackintosh route, except for "access to MacOS software" (fair enough), if all one wants is a nicely-designed, comfortable, convenient machine. The GPD Pocket + Ubuntu Studio experience has been just as friendly as it ever was on MacBook, and I think that if the next iteration of the Pocket gets a bit bigger, with a nicer keyboard .. then it'll be goodbye MacBook addiction, hello "switched to Linux on GPD Pocket2" ... Seriously, the only draw for me is the resilience of the hardware. Apples competition need only produce a unibody MacBook-like experience, hardware-wise, and distros' like Ubuntu Studio can handle the rest.

peatmoss 9y ago
Were you a Linux user in the dark days of hardware fiddling? My perception is that there are getting to be two kinds of Linux users these days: 1. People who relished in the technical challenge of maintaining a Linux machine in the olden days and would use Linux no matter what. 2. People who installed it for whatever reason in recent times on compatible hardware, and literally have no idea how it’s any different than MacOS or Windows from a difficulty perspective. My perspective nowadays is that Linux is a cake walk... but I started with Yggdrasil, Slackware, and the BSDs in the 90s. Hackintoshes seem like a lot of work to buy oneself into Apple serfdom. The idea that people can newly encounter Linux in 2017, and not be turned off by usability, hardware compatibility, or software availability is pretty exciting to me.
- mmjaa 9y ago
  I've been a Linux user since the day Linus posted it to the minix-list. I too remember Yggdrasil. ;) We've come a long, long way.

by mmjaa 9y ago

peatmoss 9y ago

Were you a Linux user in the dark days of hardware fiddling? My perception is that there are getting to be two kinds of Linux users these days: 1. People who relished in the technical challenge of maintaining a Linux machine in the olden days and would use Linux no matter what. 2. People who installed it for whatever reason in recent times on compatible hardware, and literally have no idea how it’s any different than MacOS or Windows from a difficulty perspective. My perspective nowadays is that Linux is a cake walk... but I started with Yggdrasil, Slackware, and the BSDs in the 90s. Hackintoshes seem like a lot of work to buy oneself into Apple serfdom. The idea that people can newly encounter Linux in 2017, and not be turned off by usability, hardware compatibility, or software availability is pretty exciting to me.

mmjaa 9y ago
I've been a Linux user since the day Linus posted it to the minix-list. I too remember Yggdrasil. ;) We've come a long, long way.