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Re:Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon off... by benn0 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @04:35PM (#39389282)
This x100. I have regularly tried to set up a Linux environment, thinking that there really isn't that much of a barrier to being productive on Linux, but with the lack of polished commercial apps and the hardware quirks I always seem to spend more time finding workarounds than actually working.

I have found more recently that I can get something reasonable (for me) set up, although I'm confident I'll always need a Mac nearby to do some things on.

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Re:Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon off... by larrik on Friday February 16, 2024 @11:41AM (#39399408)
> the lack of polished commercial apps

I didn't really run into this as an issue at all. Then again, "commercial apps" sounds largely like a relic of the 90's. It has Slack and Teams and Spotify and can run most games thanks to Valve.

Biggest thing I ran into was that MS Word is too buggy to 100% reliably read anything created in alternate programs. I know it's Word and not LibreOffice or anything because it happens between different versions of Word too.

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