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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @03:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @03:23AM (#445385)

    That'd be fine and all, but in the article...

    Red Hat provided me with a 15″ Mac Book Pro. Since this was one of their choices of machine for developers, I assumed it was well supported by Fedora.

    ...and that's a pretty reasonable assumption.

    Mind you, I've got Fedora running pretty okay on one of my machines, other than the very likely possibility that AMD video under Linux is ridiculously garbage vs on Windows, since I'm getting drastically lower graphics performance on the machine
    There's more than a fair share of genuine issues that aren't specific to Linux on Macs there, like the fact that multiple display support on Linux is miserably poor.
    and wifi is an eternal issue, but that's more on the hardware manufacturer's end with not providing proper docs about the chipset