Re:The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks
by addicted on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:40PM
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You wouldn’t have to research anything either if you bought a System76 or Dell Developer laptop which come with Linux preinstalled. Everything would work out of the box.
You are comparing apples and oranges by complaining that Linux didn’t work on a laptop where it didn’t come preinstalled, whereas OSX worked on one where it did. If you tried to install OSX on the laptop you installed Linux on instead it would almost certainly fail, and if itnworked it would be because of orders of magnitude more research needed to build a hackintosh.
In a comparison with Windows Linux might fail the “install on a random laptop and have it working” test, but certainly not against OSX.
NVidia 1070 Ti
> You need to do some research when buying hardware that is compatible with Linux
This backs up my point -- I don't have to waste time researching anything with macOS.
> Nvidia is notoriously hostile to linux
That may be true, but as a user, I don't care why macOS works better, or whether it's fair. I just care that it does.
> I'm sticking to either AMD or Intel for my video cards, where everything works flawlessly.
Not an option if you need CUDA support.
> I believe the point the parent is making that Apple hardware is now bad enough that having Linux on well supported hardware, would require less fiddling
Researching what hardware is supported counts as fiddling.