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There might be a more general chicken-and-egg problem: Ubuntu/Linux doesn't support new desktop hardware well and is leaning towards older hardware. Look how co

There might be a more general chicken-and-egg problem: Ubuntu/Linux doesn't support new desktop hardware well and is leaning towards older hardware. Look how common 1, 2, 4 GB of RAM is and of course those people don't want to gamble with HiDPI or 4k displays too. As an example, latest well supported desktop hardware that I have is a Haswell-based system from 5 years ago. A few of my more recent systems have too many problems.

Symbiote 8y ago
Two of our 8 developers have powerful Linux desktops. At the time, they cost around the same as a top-spec MacBook: 64GiB RAM, Xeon CPU, a graphics card that has no problem with two HiDPI screens, 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs. We're both running Kubuntu on them. I think other developers will switch, after seeing first-hand the problems with the new MacBook. I find it really convenient that I can run a CPU-intensive task using lots of storage on my desktop and no-one (especially me) notices any fan noise. A few months ago I took on a task to adapt a local data processing pipeline to run some analysis on the Hadoop cluster. Instead I ended up running it on the desktop over the weekend: total development time about an hour, EC2 cost $0. The systems are from Dell, a previous model of the 5820: http://www.dell.com/developers http://www.dell.com/developers (no affiliation, this is the Google search result link). Or in other words: (K)Ubuntu users aren't all poor.