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posted by janrinok on Friday December 23 2016, @08:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the try-another-distro? dept.

I've been using MacOSX as my primary desktop since the days of Rhapsody. But I always had Linux virtual machines running on occasions. A dwindling number of machines at home were running Linux, most notably a couple of Raspberry Pi and a Synology Diskstation. And when I installed Linux, I usually went for Ubuntu, which did a good job polishing the user experience. The build ring for Tao3D includes a number of virtual machines running several major distros for testing purpose, but it's been quite inactive for a while, and repairing it is on my short-term to-do list.

Working for Red Hat, I thought I had to use Fedora as my primary desktop. And the experience has been a bit underwhelming so far, unfortunately. In just three days, I managed to render a Mac Book Pro unbootable in OSX, had several different issues with skippy or laggy mouse cursors and even non-responsive keyboards, had a driver crash attempting to access my home Wi-Fi, found out the hard way that NFS performance is just horrible, and had to use Google for trivial things way too often.

I complained several times on this blog about what I perceived as a degradation of OSX software quality since 10.6, but this experience with Linux puts all this in some serious perspective.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by darkfeline on Friday December 23 2016, @10:00PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Friday December 23 2016, @10:00PM (#445245) Homepage

    Apple doesn't exactly make it easy to install other OSes on their hardware. I suspect the author would have had a much better time using more commonly supported hardware, like a Thinkpad or Dell.

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  • (Score: 2) by RedGreen on Friday December 23 2016, @11:50PM

    by RedGreen (888) on Friday December 23 2016, @11:50PM (#445296)

    Doubt it I use OSX on PC hardware and I got to tell you I gave more than a few distros a try month or so ago and they still have the BS problems that led me to dump it nearly a decade ago after decade of use of Linux at that time. Same old same old every thing is fragmented to hell got to chase the new shinny all the time never finishing off the stuff that is so close to working it is a joke. Now for a server only thing I will use but the desktop if you only want to surf the web check some email well can work got anything advanced like use your extra mouse buttons then good luck you are back to shit that most times sort of works if you spends days/weeks at getting it going. Although got to say seems like they have managed to get a dual monitor setup working without having to troll X logs and edit the files manually in the hope you can get it going who knows in another decade or three they might get the rest right. That is if they can ever figure they have to work together on a common goal for a desktop that just works.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @04:03PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @04:03PM (#445564)

      I just bought a Thinkpad x260 (Christmas sale, and all) and put Devuan on it. Only thing that didn't work right from the start was the wireless, which required a driver blob download, and I expected that going in since, you know, I actually did the research before buying.

      Linux isn't the best choice for laptops, since there's too much proprietary bullshit, especially in the wirelesss/bluetooth realms, so you do need to do some research first. Mac is one of the worst for that kind of thing, so I'm not surprised he had problems, it seems to be what he was after so he could have his story. He wouldn't have had any better luck trying to install WIndows 10 on it.