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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by daxorid on Friday September 22, 2017 @10:58AM (#15312750)
For those of us who hate OS X and prefer to work on Linux, the HP Spectre line runs most modern distros just fine out of the box.
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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by marvel_boy on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:08AM (#15312841)
Is not MacOs a Unix[1]?

[1]https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1489/is-mac-os-x-un...

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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by daxorid on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:38AM (#15313135)
Yes, but:

1. The UI is horrible and not amenable to sufficient customization. Xfce, bspwm, and i3 are all substantially better from a user experience and getting-things-done standpoint.

2. The availability of tooling for basically everything other than graphics design or video editing is significantly worse than for Linux.

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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by s73ver_ on Friday September 22, 2017 @01:10PM (#15313949)
The availability of tooling is just fine. You may need to compile from source, but that shouldn't be a big deal. Otherwise there's also MacPorts, Homebrew, and fink for pre-built packages.

The UI thing is entirely subjective.

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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by alexnewman on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:13PM (#15314420)
Totally agree with all of this. Also it's getting more and more closed every day
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