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Re:Ask HN: Why Apple laptops are predominant laptops on ever... by jhildings on Saturday January 23, 2016 @06:48PM (#10960697)
>The Linux distros, for all their good, requires too much handholding and prodding to get a productive desktop development environment working.

At least you CAN get a productive environment. The OSX window manager really really sucks and you can not configure much. Why do not Apple add X11 manager support ?

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Re:Ask HN: Why Apple laptops are predominant laptops on ever... by afarrell on Saturday January 23, 2016 @09:23PM (#10961180)
Because folks can instead use https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst if they want a tiling window manager like xmonad. It is pretty easy to install and it works well.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Apple laptops are predominant laptops on ever... by jhildings on Sunday January 24, 2016 @05:58AM (#10962176)
i don't want a tiling one, i want a configurable lightweight one like fluxbox
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