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Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? by corndoge on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:43AM (#28222865)
> It's just not there yet

Respectfully, it is there. You are not. Which is fine - I prefer a Mac for general purpose computer use, word processing, web browsing, that sort of thing. But Linux can do these things just as well, it just requires you to configure them, which is strictly a "you" constraint and not a failure of the system.

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Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? by BlueParanoia on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @01:33PM (#28224532)
This is a pretty bad argument. You can apply that "you're the constraint" logic to tons of bad designs and products and claim they're not actually bad.

Linux is not necessary a bad system, but usability (degree of effort, burden of knowledge, misuse risk) are absolutely a core determination on where or not a piece of technology is "there yet"

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Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? by fsflover on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @01:41PM (#28224621)
> degree of effort, burden of knowledge, misuse risk

I don't understand what you mean. My non-technical relatives use Linux just fine. There is no "burden of knowledge".

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