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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by arthur_debert on Monday April 02, 2012 @09:43AM (#3788022)
The issue is not that one would like to tinker, but that without a significant time investment tinkering, you can't get the basics working.

Nothing precludes the OS from being tinkerable but mostly working out of the box.

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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by icarus127 on Monday April 02, 2012 @11:29AM (#3788562)
In my experience this hasn't been true of (some distributions of) Linux in several years. I've talked to a lot of people who hold this opinion and they generally haven't tried Linux in 5+ years.
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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by arthur_debert on Monday April 02, 2012 @11:36AM (#3788601)
I think for the general case yes, but there are still some rough spots on certain hardware (e.g. power management on macbook pros and so on). Some other smaller things, like attaching an apple keyboard to ubuntu creates up with pretty weird mappings for a couple of keys. Configuring the keyboard under those conditions is pretty confusing.
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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by thatjoshguy on Monday April 02, 2012 @11:00AM (#3788420)
Why I love OS X.

I remember using Terminal to change every single .string string to "LOL" on one of the school macs. Good times indeed...

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