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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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Appalbarry on Friday December 23 2016, @10:16PM
I didn't read the whole article in detail, but read enough to come away thinking: this is a guy with very specific, very complex, and probably unique needs. I'm not sure that any OS would make all of his stuff work happily without issues.
For an average user without specific needs like gaming or Photoshop, any mainstream Linux distro an any mainstream hardware should be a twenty minute install.
Also, gotta wonder at someone who decides to install Linux because they're unhappy with OS X.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @02:10AM
well i aint read the whole article either, but...
>this is a guy with very specific, very complex, and probably unique needs.
before we even get to his "unique needs" he was having problems with the _installer_
>average user without specific needs like gaming
dude you can not get more average than gaming.
>Also, gotta wonder at someone who decides to install Linux because they're unhappy with OS X.
well on that we can agree, osx is sweet af.
ok now my own horror story which finally made me give up on linux.
been using linux since the late 90's, 4years ago i had some kit (macpro) lying around at work, needed to run some java automated tests, decided to install ubuntu (cos i'd never used that flavour before) on it, worked fine, left it for 2 years, just running tests, didnt update it or do anything to it, it just set there compiling and running tests. 2 years later i need to install the latest version of java on it, was expecting to just apt-get update (or whatever the hell the command is) and go, but no, nononononnonononono, you already know the story, version hell, it just would not do it, posted to forums, hand edit this file, rm that file, use this specific repo, or that one, or this one over there, blahblahblah geez the same fucken story i've been getting for decades, ITS ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THIS! MAKE IT STOP!