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The irony of this is there is probably more Unix on your wrist than Linux on the desktop.
by hughrr 5y ago
The irony of this is there is probably more Unix on your wrist than Linux on the desktop.
- mrtranscendence 5y agoAs someone who's heavily bought into the Apple ecosystem, I'm surrounded by Unix all the time, technically. On my wrist, in my pocket, on my lap. And I'm surrounded by Linux, too, at least at work. But Linux on the desktop? How delightfully absurd! Nah, I really want my next PC build to run Linux. But that'll have to wait a while ... just paid $4k for a vacation. My girlfriend wasn't sympathetic that $4k would pay for an awesome rig instead.
- hughrr 5y agoI tried Linux on a fairly hefty Ryzen rig recently and it was the usual shit show. HiDPI doesn’t even work properly with wayland yet. My next $4k rig is going to be an iMac. Typing this on my iPad in a hotel. That’s the life.
- mrtranscendence 5y agoI'm sympathetic, and I don't think I'd ever run Linux as my primary compute. But as a secondary machine that gives me a chance to tinker where failure doesn't really matter, it seems viable.
- hughrr 5y agoI just rent mine from Linode. Less capital risk then.