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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by osrec on Monday April 02, 2018 @08:31PM (#16740811)
Exactly. Sure if you're trying to revive some old notebook with a Linux distro you're going to face issues (no different to if you try to install the latest MacOS on their earlier machines). With a modern machine, Linux is a very reliable and comfortable OS that doesn't restrict you in terms of hardware. The only minor criticism I have is that it lacks a high quality spreadsheet application like Excel (but with cloud based solutions catching up, that is becoming a non issue).
Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by haZard_OS on Monday April 02, 2018 @09:36PM (#16741187)
Does Libre's open source spreadsheet not provide the functionality you need? I took a small HP stream, replaced Windows with POP! OS (from System 76) and the spreadsheet comes as part of the package. As far as I know, it's also easily available with vanilla Ubuntu.
Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by osrec on Monday April 02, 2018 @11:11PM (#16741604)
It's 80% there, but for an advanced Excel user, libre office calc feels like Excel from 2005. I'm sure it can do everything advanced users need, but it's slow and clunky at times.