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>Around Windows 7 timeframe, I came to peace with FOSS UNIX clones never going to be as mature as proprietary OSes on laptops What does mature mean ? Unless y
by jmclnx 2y ago
>Around Windows 7 timeframe, I came to peace with FOSS UNIX clones never going to be as mature as proprietary OSes on laptops
What does mature mean ? Unless you mean an entertainment or gaming device, I find for real computing, Linux/BSD is 100x better than Windows or MACs.
For entertainment a TV, Cell Phone, tablet is a better choice.
- pjmlp 2y agoIt means that any normie can get a perfectly working GNU/Linux laptop from a random shopping mall and everything works out of the box without any constraints.
- ginko 2y agoNormies use smartphones these days.
- pjmlp 2y agoI would really like to see normies do regular computing tasks on their phones, then again HN is full of folks that rather buy an iPad and connect to a cloud VM via ssh, instead of a proper laptop.
- tiagod 2y agoWhat's a "normal computing task" for you? I know a lot of poeple that don't own a computer nor feel a need to own one. They just use their phones for everything.
- fullspectrumdev 2y agoIt depends. I would have had the same opinion as you until recently when I switched to an M2 for travel work, and it is completely adequete for getting work done. There’s a handful of edge cases where I’ll fire up the real Linux laptop, but between UTM and Parallels I can get a lot of real work done on the MacBook.