So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

Re:So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux by toyg on Thursday January 10, 2019 @11:21AM (#18874977)

(That color theme is... not for me.)

I long for the Linux prairies of old, but I've grown fat and lazy on OSX. Linux is a youngster's game.

Apple got it wrong in 2016 but there are signs that we might have passed "iPhone peak"... maybe they will be forced to pay attention again to us old farts.

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Re:So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux by fouc on Thursday January 10, 2019 @11:55AM (#18875404)

Yeah, I loved linux but I'm fat and lazy on OSX. I don't want to be sucked into the rabbit hole of being able to configure and tweak everything, and never quite feeling like I found the greenest pastures.

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Re:So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux by dtemp on Friday January 11, 2019 @11:31AM (#18884604)

I've installed Ubuntu 18.10 on my Dell laptop, and I've done no configuring/tweaking that you describe. Just the default install, changed maybe one or two settings in ubuntu's version of "System Preferences", installed my Firefox extensions, changed the desktop background. You don't need to do any configuring/tweaking if you don't want to. Everything works.

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Re:So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux by cullenking on Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:22PM (#18875713)

Turns out that fat/lazy also applies to Linux. Meaning I used to also try to optimize the heck out of my linux install. Went back to Linux from OSX last year, and was perfectly fine adjusting my workflow to suit my new machine, rather than trying to make my machine suit my ideal workflow.

What this means is that I installed a base ubuntu system with awesomewm and just used it mostly stock. I already had awesomewm experience from 5+ years prior, but for the first month of moving back to Linux I was also perfectly happy chugging along with gnome.

What I am saying is give it a try. Only time I miss OSX now is when I need to sign a PDF.

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Re:So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux by broken_symlink on Thursday January 10, 2019 @01:45PM (#18876641)

I've used xournal in the past for signing pdfs on linux.

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Re:So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux by cr0sh on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:40PM (#18877290)

> I long for the Linux prairies of old, but I've grown fat and lazy on OSX. Linux is a youngster's game.

45 years old here and still rocking Linux (does that qualify as "old" - probably - sigh). Started playing with it in 1995 (MonkeyLinux on DOS!); haven't stopped.

Stuff's gotten dirt-simple compared to what I remember having to do in the past. Certainly no kernel recompiles needed any longer (but if you really wanted to, you can do them).

Have I gotten "fat and lazy"? Yep - just on Linux. I can't see that changing in the future, either...

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Re:So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux by ddebernardy on Thursday January 10, 2019 @01:40PM (#18876585)

Is Linux that popular with youngsters after they've left university? When I think about laptop Linux users it's the archetypical greasy bearded GNU'er [1] that springs to mind...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ

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Re:So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux by rusk on Thursday January 10, 2019 @11:44AM (#18875251)

Gloria Gaynor [0] couldn't have put it better ;-)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYkACVDFmeg

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Re:So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux by aeneasmackenzie on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:02PM (#18878132)

It's a plan 9 theme. The pastels grow on you, they're very easy on the eyes.

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