Ask HN: Would you switch to Win 10 from OS X on a MacBook Pro?

Re:Ask HN: Would you switch to Win 10 from OS X on a MacBook... by jstewartmobile on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:41AM (#15967308)

If you go for Windows 10, expect to play whack-a-mole with their Cortana and telemetry services.

I made the mistake of upgrading my laptop with it. Calculator takes around 5 sec to load, purely due to phone-home BS.

edit: I've had the best luck with Debian, then segregating all of the Windows stuff into a VirtualBox VM. Tried KVM. It ran well enough, but I could never get the clipboard to work between guest and host.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you switch to Win 10 from OS X on a MacBook... by jam3sn on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:45AM (#15986531)

Why Debian over the likes of Ubuntu or Fedora, if you don't mind me asking?

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Re:Ask HN: Would you switch to Win 10 from OS X on a MacBook... by jstewartmobile on Friday December 22, 2017 @04:48PM (#15991185)

My experience with Fedora has been either fantastic or terrible. Probably because it's the guinea pig RedHat tests things on before they go into RedHat proper. Non-LTS Ubuntus have been the same story.

RedHat/CentOS are also fairly nice on real hardware, but they seem to be even more conservative than Debian on what they put into the distro and the package manager. That and with the popularity of Ubuntu, just about everyone has a .deb package or even an apt repo for their software. Debian uses the same format.

But I mostly do software development using all of the old, old command line tools, so stability is my priority. With different priorities, one of the other distros may be better.

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