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> Compare a Macbook Pro with a custom built Linux desktop. The MBP is very user friendly, plug n play, and has very little customization capacity. The custom Li

> Compare a Macbook Pro with a custom built Linux desktop. The MBP is very user friendly, plug n play, and has very little customization capacity. The custom Linux desktop is an absolute tinkerer's paradise, with everything from hardware to software being open for customization. It's not fair to say Macs are less customizable or less of a tinkerer's paradise just because they are more user friendly.

nileshtrivedi 13y ago
I think it's fair to say that. In my opinion, Linux wins on kernel configuration options alone. Would you like a tickless kernel? Soft real-time? Hard real-time? A different scheduler, may be?
- fleitz 13y ago
  It's pretty easy to boot Linux on a Mac.
bennyg 13y ago
My guess is he was talking about the retina MBPs that are impossible to change RAM on and damn near impossible to do anything else with.
- Camillo 13y ago
  You can do a lot with them. What you're talking about is doing things to them.
  - bennyg 13y ago
    Meh, you knew exactly what I meant, as did most people that read that discussion I'm sure.
PeterisP 13y ago
Who said that it's because of user friendliness? But they are intentionally made uncustomizable and not for tinkerers hardware-wise, that 1/10 repairability score (http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+Display+Late+2013+Teardown/18695 http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+Di...) isn't an accident.