Re:Home and hotel – Switching from macOS to Ubuntu on a Dell...
by tn_ on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:16AM
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I've probably spent a couple of hours last month trying to resolve sound driver related issues where my headphone jack stopped working on Ubuntu 16.04. Also, my dual monitor set-up randomly stopped working.. this was during a deadline so I ended up coding with my thinkpad screen for the entirety of a day. This is my work machine. These are the exact same problems I faced 10 years ago when I was using Ubuntu. Completely unacceptable. Macs + Windows are miles ahead more stable than Ubuntu.
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Re:Home and hotel – Switching from macOS to Ubuntu on a Dell...
by olyjohn on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @12:20PM
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Honestly, I see this same stuff on Windows constantly. Our 50+ Windows devs still struggle to hook up to projectors, extra monitors, docks, etc. Sound drops out during meetings, sound devices lock up and require reboots. The worst thing really is the new updating process, which despite configuring it to not reboot during the day, it does so anyways. Some of these updates have taken 2+ hours to install. Can't even use the computer at all. Not to mention, many of these updates end up breaking components despite our best efforts at testing.
Re:Home and hotel – Switching from macOS to Ubuntu on a Dell...
by wazoox on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:46AM
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And every now and then, on my old macBook USB stops working and I need to unplug everything (MIDI interfaces, audio, disk drives). Annoying as hell when you open Cubase and it can't see any of your setup.
On the other hand I never had any serious issue with my XPS running Ubuntu, or my desktop PCs (running Linux exclusively since 2003). So YMMV, and the plural of anecdote isn't statistics. On my book, Linux works largely better and more predictably than MacOS by a large margin.