• TheEntity
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        61 year ago

        Some would say desktops are not really consumer hardware anymore. Unfortunately. Sent from my useless black rectangle.

          • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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            21 year ago

            Honestly whatever Linux Distro takes over will almost certainly be an Android or ChormeOS style bastardization where you can certainly see the lineage but it’s so locked down and so far removed from the userland and tooling we expect that the whole point of “year of the Linux desktop” is lost

            • @FunkyClown@lemmy.fail
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              1 year ago

              Yes and no. MacOS is basically the year of the Unix desktop for a while now and it’s still powerful and user friendly. Just fire up a terminal and it’s Unix. The benefit they have is hardware control so stuff just works and no driver hardware issues etc…

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                21 year ago

                I agree. Linux is great when one has the time but not the money.

                However for a system that just works - MacOS is one of the best bsd distros of all time esp on arm.

                Sadly MacOS also comes with the downfalls of a closed and proprietary ecosystem.

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                    21 year ago

                    Yes, I have yet to have a zero-config experience even on vertical (but open) platforms like RasberryPi. What has been your experience?

                    GPU, Sound, WiFi Day 0 / 1 / 365 are not yet on par with MacOS or Win11, for me, anyway.

                    For me, it is important to recognize there is a larger time investment, otherwise how does it get better?

                  • @FunkyClown@lemmy.fail
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                    11 year ago

                    I have on servers as I run my own lemmy server. I do like Linux desktop but macOS just works for my work and home laptop.

      • Whayle
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        I remember Dell had an option back in 2013 on the XPS laptops…