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Re:My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work... by rsl7 on Sunday October 27, 2013 @01:28PM (#6622628)
but why? if you paid for Apple hardware, OS X is ten times nicer than ubuntu.
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Re:My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work... by mfincham on Monday October 28, 2013 @10:37PM (#6631554)
Ubuntu's not the only choice, though.

Apple has a hard time matching the speed and flexibility of a lightweight GNU/Linux distro (presumably because OS X's focus on polish, integration and aesthetics means they want to tip the scale of compromises back in that direction, and that's fine). Some of us don't mind not having drop shadows and pervasive "cloud" integration if it means we can have full control over our own computers :)

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Re:My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work... by RexRollman on Sunday October 27, 2013 @02:06PM (#6622765)
That's a matter of opinion.
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Re:My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work... by rsl7 on Monday October 28, 2013 @02:16AM (#6625484)
OS X has better support for its own hardware, like the trackpad. How can that be a matter of opinion?
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Re:My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work... by Herald_MJ on Monday October 28, 2013 @09:37AM (#6626780)
That OS X has support for it's own hardware is fact. That OS X is better than Ubuntu is opinion.

It's also worth mentioning that Ubuntu has perfect support for the current Macbook Pro and Macbook Air, so I don't know what point you're even making by saying that OS X has hardware support for Macs.

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