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This is a common question but particularly unfair on a post about Macs. Buy hardware that ships with Linux, such as a Dell XPS that ships with Ubuntu pre-insta
by rlpb 7y ago
This is a common question but particularly unfair on a post about Macs.
Buy hardware that ships with Linux, such as a Dell XPS that ships with Ubuntu pre-installed, and it'll work fine.
Try to install on some random hardware, and of course you may have issues depending on who has volunteered what quality of drivers for that hardware.
The same applies to all Apple hardware. Nobody expects to install macOS on some random hardware, so why in a comparison to Macs is this a concern?
- MisterOctober 7y ago1) For the record, all my Linux machines came preinstalled with Windows; 2) I don't think it's at all unfair to macOS / Mac hardware. Macs used to be great, hardware and software-wise, for development and other "making stuff" type work, and they used to be stone reliable. There's been a real qualitative change in Apple's approach to 'pro' users [for lack of a better term] -- OS updates having more unexpected / unwelcome effects, number and type of physical ports on systems becoming smaller and less practical [not even one single normal USB port on this year's MPB!], user-servicability + upgradeability of hardware diminishing over time to practically zero -- the situation is well bad. I was a devoted macOS / OSX user, but as I mentioned in the earlier comment, I got fed up and jumped ship due to these reasons, which reasons had real impact on my productivity and contentedness-as-a-user