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I don't get it either, it takes twenty minutes to burn a USB stick and run the installer. It takes me longer to remove the bloatware and set up my preferred set
by dingnuts 2y ago
I don't get it either, it takes twenty minutes to burn a USB stick and run the installer. It takes me longer to remove the bloatware and set up my preferred settings on a proprietary OS than it does to install Linux nowadays, and that's been true for a decade at least now.
It's just not hard! It's not more work! And yet the meme about it being more trouble just. won't. die.
You people are supposed to be technologists! Why won't you spend 20 minutes of one time setup to get a better experience?
Not all hardware works? I don't see anybody complaining about having a limited set of hardware options when they buy Apple! Canonical maintains a list of fully compatible computers; just pick one, buy it, and you wind up with a computer just as easy to use as Mac OS but without the endless paper cuts of using a system that has no respect for you at all and thinks it knows better
- foldr 2y agoI use Apple laptops primarily for the hardware. But Linux has never really been a great experience on Mac laptops when it comes to battery life, reliable suspend/resume, etc. etc. I used to use Yellow Dog Linux on a G4 PowerBook way back in the day, but I haven’t had much luck with Linux on Mac hardware since then.
- bastardoperator 2y agoMost of us have .dotfiles, I can snap any macos installation into my preferred configuration in about 5-10 minutes unattended depending on internet speeds. I do most of my work in a terminal, as long as that works, I'm good on Linux, MacOS, and BSD's. They all have pros and cons.
- rbanffy 2y agoI only wish Apple’s terminal supported Tektronix and ReGIS. And provided a sane implementation for sixels.