Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @04:47AM (#13218600)

It's not democracy vs dictatorship. It's individualism/pluralism vs central planning. You can have central planning with democratic legitimacy or without it.

But I don't actually think the horrible state of desktop Linux is down to any of that. Device drivers are Linux's big problem. Desktop environments are a simple matter of getting used to them and learning what to tweak.

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by glaberficken on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @03:53AM (#13227727)

> "the horrible state of desktop Linux"

I don't assume the state of desktop Linux to be horrible. It's simply more diverse than the state of Windows and OSX.

For many people that is a good thing. There's intrinsic value in variety.

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by fauigerzigerk on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @05:50AM (#13228183)

As I said, it's driver issues that make the Linux desktop/laptop experience horrible, not the diversity of desktop environments.

I don't think it's a good idea for Linux advocates to deny or downplay the effect that driver issues have on the overall desktop/laptop Linux experience.

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