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That's pretty much 95% of the posts on UsesThis. Which I wrote off at first as being elitist, but the more top tier developers you meet the more you realize tha
by ecaron 15y ago
That's pretty much 95% of the posts on UsesThis. Which I wrote off at first as being elitist, but the more top tier developers you meet the more you realize that it is actually the norm. The interesting thing is that for those not using a Apple laptop are always on a Lenovo.
I'm working on a infographic, or something along those lines, that shows a breakdown of what it used on UsesThis, but the pie charts are going to mostly be Apple flavored.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoI'd like to see a geographical and occupational breakdown, I'm sensing selection bias here.
- jsvaughan 15y agocertainly the vast majority of people interviewed on UsesThis are not developers
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoI meant an occupational breakdown among the developers. I'm sensing from browsing the site that it favors consumer-facing application programmers.
- waferbaby 15y agoNope, I'm trying to get anyone interesting from all sorts of fields. These are all the people who've said yes, for one thing. :)
- billybob 15y agoNaturally. "Consumer facing" = "more widely known" = "interesting to a wider audience."
- billybob 15y agoNaturally. "Consumer facing" = "more widely known" = "interesting to a bigger audience."
- waferbaby 15y agoCool! Lemme know if/when you do so's I can see.
- larsberg 15y agoI assume the reason they're on a ThinkPad/Lenovo is that there is a well-deserved reputation there for running Linux well. I recently picked up one of the new Toshiba Portege models to run Linux, and stock Ubuntu is giving me flashbacks to the circa-1999 Linux experience -- it doesn't detect when a monitor appears over HDMI, randomly will run up to 100% and freeze (kernel patch coming soon!), power management settings seem basically ignored with the display dimming when that is both disabled and I'm typing... and the worst part? Mentioned it to the local department Linux people, and they just said, "oh, yeah, you should've bought Thinkpad."
- dwiel 15y agoI just got a Thinkpad T420s and almost everything worked right out of the box (Ubuntu 10.04) despite some people having trouble on the forums a few months ago. Sometimes I have problems getting the display connected to the docking station to detect if I suspend while not connected, then connect, then resume. This is a pretty minor flaw that is fairly easily worked around.
- w1ntermute 15y agoHave you tried 11.04?
- dwiel 15y agodoh, yeah, that's what I meant to say I installed with no trouble. 11.04 was no trouble, and I haven't tried 10.04.
- angryasian 15y agoif you're looking for a mac book like experience with Ubuntu you should buy approved hardware, or from vendors that offer pre built machines like http://www.system76.com/ http://www.system76.com/ or http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x
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- jonah 15y agoBefore switching to Apple laptops, I had several Thinkpads - and would have to say their solidity, reliability and no-frills approach were major factors. I'd probably go Thinkpad again if I needed a non-mac machine. Another factor represented here is they're popular in the corporate world - I know Adobe is standardized on them for the Windows side and I /think/ Google is too.