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Re:Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development by user5994461 on Monday January 02, 2017 @02:45PM (#13303794)
> Thus they barely get their stuff working on the major commercial platforms, and all the rest have to either beg for specs so they can write their own (good luck) or reverse engineers (and risking bricking the hardware because of abusing standards for firmware flashing and whatsnot).

Thus the shortest way to get a working system is to stop being an hipster and use one of the major commercial platforms.

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Re:Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development by AsyncAwait on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:50PM (#13304382)
> Thus the shortest way to get a working system is to stop being an hipster and use one of the major commercial platforms.

Being a hipster has very little to do with using Linux these days. Wanting a productive, customisable work environment has a lot, on the other hand.

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Re:Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development by user5994461 on Monday January 02, 2017 @04:55PM (#13304878)
Whenever you're stuck with bad drivers, hardware issues and having to reverse engineer your platform, you are not productive.
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Re:Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development by dkuntz2 on Monday January 02, 2017 @06:59PM (#13305524)
Perhaps, but I get very annoyed with basically everything to do with Windows. Best case scenario for actually getting work done on a computer running Windows for me is to just setup a virtual machine running some flavor of Linux, and just spend all my working time in that VM.

Which, in that case, why even have Windows installed, you're just giving resources to something that isn't doing anything besides giving you access to an entirely separate operating system.

Yes, this is perhaps a manufactured problem, but windows is just generally not conductive to my style of work. And really all I need is zsh, tmux, and vim working without causing an audible ping every time I hit a key to be happy.

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