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Re:MacBook Neo by drnick1 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:32PM (#47342285)
Why? Like many people I don't do serious work on my laptop. It is used for Web browsing, email, and to SSH into other machines. A simple, affordable, but well built machine like the Neo would be ideal for this, on the condition that I can run Linux on it. I currently use an aging XPS in that capacity and the Neo would be quite compelling as a substitute.
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Re:MacBook Neo by railgunmerlin on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:40PM (#47343315)
your average neo buyer doesn't know what ssh is and would probably like media apps ranging from capcut to lightroom.
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Re:MacBook Neo by golem14 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:56AM (#47348116)
Not sure that’s true in general, but the comparison here is between Linux and macOS. And I believe that for the set of users contemplating Linux, GP is largely correct.
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Re:MacBook Neo by supersing on Thursday March 12, 2026 @12:02AM (#47346305)
If web browsing, email, and SSH is all you do, then macOS is almost identical to Linux, while being so much easier to use.
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Re:MacBook Neo by curt15 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:22PM (#47355786)
Firefox, Gmail, and ssh have essentially the same user experience on Linux as on macOS.
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