Users who've quit Linux

You can also put me in the “I used to use a Mac but went back to Linux” camp :grin:. I really like Apple’s hardware, but the software not so much.

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As a former Mac developer, allow me to disagree with this statement with the utmost gusto.

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is starting to look like “once you go Mac, if you’re Neuro, you never go back, but others aren’t as seduced” :slight_smile:

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I have been using Linux off and on since the early 90s. I am actually running the most desktop Linux ever right now and very happy about it. I have 2 laptops and a rpi2 running Linux and the only non-gaming machine running Windows (I am NOT an Apple guy, even though I agree they have good hardware… their software is meh and their walled-garden ecosystem has no place in my life) is my wife’s machine. I am thinking about converting that to Linux as she only does web browsing and email and doesn’t need Windows.

As for my gaming rig… sigh… I had removed Win10 from it last month and tried to make a go of it with Linux. Sadly, Linux gaming, while getting better every day with SteamOS and ports of decent games (Feral Interactive is doing amazing work), is still not ready for a serious gamer. (check out this benchmark for a recently ported A-list game F12015 compared to Windows: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/article_images/1464176676linuxvswindowsgol.png ). So I reluctantly went back to Win10 on this box. I was very disappointed that my desire to use Linux for gaming failed in 2016.

Desktop Linux is fine for me. The driver support requires more work than on Windows or OSX but I have no issues with any of my machines in terms of device support. Maybe I am just lucky.

I use a Mac desktop at home for everything. Ubuntu at work because I can’t have a Mac – and it does me fine. For all non-work development, though, I use an Ubuntu VM, which I run without a display manager and SSH into, because I’m old school and live on the terminal.

Actually, the only reason I went to Mac in the first place was that I wanted a first-class Photoshop and Lightroom experience and didn’t want to run Windows.

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Also, if you’re Ld00d. I use Linux too though.

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'nother guy I found here, shame.

Why is it a shame, though? Surely computing freedom should allow the freedom to choose whatever OS we want to run, without being judged?

I bet you briw a good coffee with dat.

I have been looking for a while now for something I saw over 20 years ago. It was an image of Bill the Cat in his usual dignified pose (ack!) with the heading “DON’T DO DOS!” Wish I could find that thing, it was good.

This, ‘Bill the Cat’ ?

https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1vxoch/bill_the_cat_is_commonly_seen_as_a_parody_of_jim/

The one and only! A Presidential candidate too.

http://www.craveonline.com/images/stories/2011/2012/January/Comedy/cartoon-character-presidents/bill-the-cat-president.jpg

Since it’s silly o’clock in the morning and my phone doesn’t do ogg, I have no idea what that means.

Ahh the price of proprietory sw :slight_smile:

So I listened to it in VLC. I’m still none the wiser.

As a side note, Mr. Breathed uses a Mac …

… or maybe it’s a Banana Junior …

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@neuro did you know you can read Mr. Breathed’s strip he did while in college?

http://www.gocomics.com/academiawaltz

He recycled many jokes over the years.

well obviously,

that’s cos your too abjective.

which is what mac users’ are.

I have no idea what the link to the OGG file meant. I have no idea what your reply above means. I don’t believe those two facts have any relation to the fact that I prefer to use Apple products.

Then you just don’t get it.