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Re:Home and hotel – Switching from macOS to Ubuntu on a Dell... by isostatic on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:50AM (#16060227)
Funny, I've used Linux on my desktop/laptop for the last 18 years because I don't have time to fiddle around on my productive machine. As for video calls, I borrowed a Mac once to do a lync video call - it didn't work.

I do now have a MacBook Air, which I got for testing a program I'd written on a real machine. I like the form factor - it's lightweight and fine for basic web browsing, similar to a chromebook.

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Re:Home and hotel – Switching from macOS to Ubuntu on a Dell... by thraxil on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:32AM (#16061763)
Same. I've even been using the same window manager (XMonad) for probably over a decade and haven't touched the config file in years. When I get a new machine, I copy some dotfiles over, apt-get a few packages and then I pretty much can't tell the difference (other than hopefully performance).

I have a macbook pro that I use exclusively for music (Ableton Live) and it's been far more hassle.

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