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Care to elaborate?
by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Care to elaborate?
- elcomet 6y agoSorry, I thought your post was sarcasm. Well, you have literally no choice for macOs supported hardware. Only apple devices. Whereas for Linux, you can in theory buy any laptop (there is no official list of supported laptops). So it's not that they get it for Mac, it's just the lack of choice.
- AsyncAwait 6y agoBut that's precisely my point. You don't really have a choice of just any random hardware anywhere, not on Linux, not on macOS, not even Windows. The only difference is that most BestBuy laptops come preinstalled with Windows, so of course they're going to support Windows. The support is often not excellent either, but in Windows world that's somehow just dismissed as expected or something. Also, try picking a TALOS II POWER9 workstation and installing Windows on it. Would not go well. My point being, people should buy Linux-supported hardware, preferably from a reputable Linux-friendly vendor, which would spare them a lot of trouble. They're already doing this with macOS and they're doing it with Windows too, just not realizing it because that's what comes with the majority of PCs.
- elcomet 6y agoMy point is that no-one is doing it on purpose for Mac or windows. They either have no choice (for Mac) or it comes by default (for windows). What you're asking is for people to do it on purpose, which is harder, and requires a lot of thoughts into it, reading about hardware vendors, ..
- AsyncAwait 6y agoI agree it's harder, but my opinion is that at this point we should market Linux on the desktop as being a very specific thing requiring hardware explicitly for that purpose and should try to work with vendors to make it an option for more hardware, rather than trying to support everything and it not being the best experience as a result.
- elcomet 6y agoYeah, I agree with that.