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Man, I really love my Macbook pro. Such a nice piece of hardware, and the OS is a joy to use. But the more and more I learn about about their business practices
by 40four 6y ago
Man, I really love my Macbook pro. Such a nice piece of hardware, and the OS is a joy to use. But the more and more I learn about about their business practices, the more I wonder if they are really in line with my own values, and the more I think about how much benefit I really gain from the OS.
Probably not as much as I used to think.
I'm starting to realize something. I'm almost certain I would be just as happy with a Linux capable laptop, loaded up with Ubuntu 20.04. I'm pretty sure my next laptop purchase will not be another Macbook pro. It will surely save me a ton of money, and I'm just not convinced the walled garden is adding enough to my life to make it worth it.
- cryptica 6y agoI highly recommend Kubuntu. It looks ugly initially but you can customize it to look really good. There is even an OSX theme that you can download.
- keyb0ardninja 6y agoWhile I second the Kubuntu/KDE recommendation, I would suggest not using a Mac theme. Because that might get you in the mentality of trying to make a Mac out of Linux, which it is not. I recommended learning to use Linux like Linux with all its unique ideas and it's a joy to use.
- Andrex 6y agoI cannot recommend elementary OS enough, especially for those coming from macOS.
- 40four 6y agoI've been interested to try it out, but I've never hated Ubuntu desktop as much as some seem to, so I've never gotten up the motivation up to give it a go. My boss is very adamant about Linux Mint, and I tried one if his installations before, but I guess I just don't care enough about the desktop experience to make it worth it. Give me a terminal, a text editor, and a browser and I'm happy :)