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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by ghaff on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @11:45AM (#42559858)
It sounds like you're violently agreeing with the parent.

I worked for an open source company for over a decade. But, although things improved over time, within about a week of joining I went out and bought a MacBook to use (for the first time) because it was more politically acceptable than Windows but I didn't want to deal with either a locked-down corporate Linux distro or an unsupported free Linux.

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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by ryao on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @11:53PM (#42564051)
My neighbor is a photographer. He uses photoshop on MacOS. It works for him. Until Adobe ports Photoshop to Linux, the “must have Photoshop with no issues whatsoever” demographic is better served by MacOS.
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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by ghaff on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @12:38AM (#42564196)
Yeah. I was hired to do a job and didn't want something that would really piss people off (Windows). But Macs were increasingly acceptable and that seemed a comfortable middle ground at the time. (And became increasingly so over time and I really grew to like a lot.)
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