Your Computer Isn't Yours

Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours by II2II on Friday November 13, 2020 @07:58AM (#25081684)

While this may be true, we should still be impressed by the number of laptops Linux operates flawlessly on. Very few people would expect Windows to run properly on a MacBook and far fewer would expect macOS to run on a generic PC. Yet people expect Linux to work flawlessly on almost anything thrown at it. From my experience, it does a very good job of this (at least in recent years).

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Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours by hunterloftis on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:34PM (#25084926)

From a technical perspective it's a marvel, but as a user, "works flawlessly on the device you have," beats, "mostly works, but with daily annoyances, on your device and many others."

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Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours by larntz on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:16PM (#25085507)

I started to reply earlier in the thread and then decided not to, but basically what I wanted to say was this.

I have used Linux as a daily driver desktop for years, but I don't just buy random hardware and expect it to work. I do some research first and make sure what I buy works well enough with Linux to meet my needs.

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Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours by joshspankit on Friday November 13, 2020 @10:01AM (#25082927)

This is actually an excellent point that rarely sees the light of day.

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