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A comment on Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by ho_schi on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @10:36AM (#31097576)
This will come with a lot of problems and requires extra work. Apple Hardware is not intended by the manufacturer to be used as general purpose computer but to run MacOS.
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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by lazyier on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:09AM (#31098041)
No kidding.

I can walk into any office store, plop down 350 dollars, and get a laptop that will probably work very well with Linux. Any problems I end up hardware-wise is probably going to be the same sort of problems I would run into if I was running Windows.

With plenty of companies providing great support for Linux I don't know why anybody would want to deal with Evil Corp Apple and then spend day struggling to get a mostly working system. Apple are the people who make a living on creating and pedaling spyware ffs.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by ho_schi on Thursday April 21, 2022 @11:31AM (#31110775)
Not my words but yes. Giving a corporation money encourages them to keep going that direction further. I would spend more money on Linux certified computers from (e.g. Lenovo, Dell, Purism, System76, Tuxedo...) which hopefully encourages this companies to keep going and improving. A single customer of course doesn't change much but 10.000 do.
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