Moving from Macbook to Linux

Re:Moving from Macbook to Linux by grawprog on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:44PM (#25164100)

The thing is, in those ten years the hump's slowly been getting smaller and smaller, every time I reinstall or upgrade there's less and less work to do to get things up and running, to the point where it's not much different than getting a new windows install going.

Install some drivers

Install some apps

Configure things and set up my ui

There's a lot less forum hunting, obscure edge cases you run into, random things not working and all those other problems I remember.

Part of it is my experience at this point, but another large part is just the general improvement of the linux ecosystem over those years.

It really has improved drastically from my first days using it regularly in 2007-2008 or so.

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Re:Moving from Macbook to Linux by anderspitman on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:48PM (#25164146)

Yes, I should have mentioned that the overall process has improved and gotten simpler over time.

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Re:Moving from Macbook to Linux by torstenvl on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:20PM (#25165115)

I literally just had to manually debug kernel modules to upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 20.10 because of the breaking changes in proc and renaming "sem[aphore]" to "lock" in places.

So no. There is just as much forum hunting as ever.

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Re:Moving from Macbook to Linux by grawprog on Saturday November 21, 2020 @02:04AM (#25168285)

Well, I can honestly say in the all the years I've been using linux i've never had to do that. I never said edge cases don't exist, just that they're less frequent.

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