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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by paradite on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:08PM (#13932700)
I ran Ubuntu 12.04 on a Lenovo laptop for a year or so.

The graphics and wifi drivers broke down every now and then and sometimes it broke the OS completely so I had to reinstall the OS.

Need to fix multiple config issues and compatibility issues when I wanted to install some Linux-alternatives for Windows applications.

Plus I need to do video editing and Android apps so I still have to constantly switch back to Windows with dual-boot.

Mac just seems to be a perfect balance, giving you all the standard terminal stuff plus everything just runs out of the box.

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by thearn4 on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:25PM (#13932879)
I ran a debian-based distro on a Lenovo thinkpad in graduate school from 2008 to about 2011. I had basically the same experience. Everything worked 95% of the time, but that other 5% felt entirely random and pretty dehabilitating.

Now I use a mix of Win, OS X, and Ubuntu depending on what I am trying to accomplish. I make heavy use of Linux servers, but have no inclination of using one as a primary end-user desktop environment again.

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by yulaow on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @02:51PM (#13933618)
You should try. The changes happened in the last 5 years are extremly big. I mean, all my notebooks (some DELL and a lenovo t430) work better with any linux distro compared to win10, and I even get +30/40% hours of battery on them
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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by wtetzner on Friday March 24, 2017 @12:53PM (#13950291)
Which distro's have you used on those notebooks? I'll likely be switching back to Linux laptop from Mac, and I'm trying to figure out which distro I want to use.
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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by bostand on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:22AM (#13937919)
same experience here.

When people complain about Linux my first question is if they had given it a serious try in the last 2 years.

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by CaptSpify on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:45PM (#13933061)
I love linux, and use it as my daily machine for work and home. But whenever I mention to others in the community that we really need to clean up this crap, and make our systems reliable instead of flashy, they treat me like I'm insane. It's amazing to me that we still have sound, wifi, and display issues that need to be solved with shitty hacks in 2017.
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