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Re:The rise and fall of Limux by danieldk on Thursday November 09, 2017 @02:39PM (#15665248)
The problem is that after a decade of FOSS zealotry (1994-2007) I couldn't really go back to Windows. Windows is now fundamentally incompatible with how my brain works. I have used macOS desktops from 2007 onwards, though I am annoyed by general bugginess (Preview.app seems to have degenerated even further from the already stripped version in Sierra) and Apple's Mac price inflation.

At home I have started using the Dell Linux Workstation that I had lying around (mostly as a headless server) more and more the last few months. I run Wayland and replaced the nVidia card by and AMD FirePro and it has mostly been smooth sailing.

(For some reason, despite being a rolling distro, Arch seems to be more stable than most distributions I have used in the past.)

Of course, I wouldn't dare to switch to Linux on laptops (yet).

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Re:The rise and fall of Limux by spiderjerusalem on Thursday November 09, 2017 @06:42PM (#15666732)
FWIW, I just setup a sweet Arch + Xmonad rice on my MBP mid-2012 and it's working really, really well. Almost negligible footprint (<200 MB for sure, with a few background daemons). Arch has truly been a breath of fresh air. Every package that I installed has a reason. No cruft.
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