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Re:The End of OS X by TwoBit on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:51PM (#23620088)
In my experience this argument is BS. Maybe the computer on day one works OK, but it's downhill from there as you maintain and update.
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Re:The End of OS X by koyote on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:33PM (#23621221)
Huh, in twenty years of using Linux, hardware support has improved with each update not gone down hill.

What I do agree with is that on day one support might not be as good for new types of hardware (especially for more niche hardware like a fingerprint reader for example). Even that has improved a lot over the years though.

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Re:The End of OS X by ByteJockey on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:09PM (#23620995)
It really does depend on the hardware.

Thinkpads usually work really well out of the box (even the nipple mouse works without a hitch).

I have plenty of horror stories about other computers though. Usually involving being deep in some page tree on a company's website that they don't seem to have actually expected anyone to go to, trying to figure out which specific vendor id maps to the actual hardware I have.

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Re:The End of OS X by alacombe on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:37PM (#23620653)
> ... but it's downhill from there as you maintain and update

I've been maintaining a Fedora desktop installed 8 years ago without a snag, updating every year or so as time permit. Not a single problem.

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