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MacOS works very well. And if you don’t like Apple hardware, so do many Linux distributions (Ubuntu is very popular and easy to get support for), and even FreeB
by beagle3 8y ago
MacOS works very well. And if you don’t like Apple hardware, so do many Linux distributions (Ubuntu is very popular and easy to get support for), and even FreeBSD and OpenBSD if you are willing to put in more time.
Most people are better served by NOT windows. Using Win10 without a specific program that isn’t available for macOS/Linux is bordering on masochism.
- Animats 8y agoShould have explained better. Everything is Linux except for one last Windows 7 machine.
- pjmlp 8y ago> Using Win10 without a specific program that isn’t available for macOS/Linux is bordering on masochism. Some of us like 100% laptop support without speeding weekends tweaking them instead of being at the park with friends and family. Even buying from Linux friendly hardware stores isn't always a success, as proven by my own Asus netbook.
- beagle3 8y agoI have the opposite experience with Win support - my parents replaced their aging windows laptop with a new win10 one, and I had to spend the weekend trying to get their old printer and scanner working again, whereas it still works out of the box with the latest Ubuntu. The main difference these days, once you got past the setup, is that as a non LTSB/LTSC user, Microsoft keeps inflicting damage onto you (e.g. in the form of reappearing Candy Crush) with no way for you to stop it without continuously actively fighting.
- Sohcahtoa82 8y ago> Most people are better served by NOT windows. It sucks that as a gamer, I'm basically forced to use Windows. If I could run Ubuntu without worrying about game compatibility, I'd switch in a heartbeat.