> The list of major changes to Windows in just two years, for free, is impressive:
The idea that upgrades could even be qualified with "for free" is such a foreign idea that it gives me pause.
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#12When people refer to the entire suite of Unix-like tools as “bash” I don’t quite know what to make of it. Interpreted uncharitably, it would seem to imply that they think all those nice tools like grep, awk, etc. are all shell builtins, which would be a huge red flag as it would mean they have very little idea of how a typical Unix-like OS works. Interpreted charitably, maybe they do know that those are all separate programs and know what a shell does, but they think the whole experience is called “bash” and not just the shell? Which I guess wouldn’t be as serious. Or maybe they know exactly what’s going on and are just using it as shorthand, sort of like how people use “the White House” to mean the entire US Federal Executive.
I honestly am not sure which it is.
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#13The writer is a journalist. For techies using Mac, there's a bigger question of whether you want to just move from Mac to GNU/Linux.
Whenever I try to use Linux I find it's essentially impossible due to terrible power management support for any hardware I can find. I'm used to 10 hours on my MacBook - how do I get that on Linux?
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#14> I'll be honest: it wasn't an easy switch at first, but as time went by it's become clear it was the right choice. Let's stop pretending there's a correct OS. We all have different needs and it depends on what you're optimizing for. I have a Macbook for work and run Windows 7 on my home desktop with Ubuntu on my home laptop. They all have their benefits and drawbacks. And Windows 10 has been having plenty of problem…
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#15The writer is a journalist. For techies using Mac, there's a bigger question of whether you want to just move from Mac to GNU/Linux.
The writer uses bash, so I wouldn't be that quick to label them.
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#17The writer is a journalist. For techies using Mac, there's a bigger question of whether you want to just move from Mac to GNU/Linux.
Whenever I try to use Linux I find it's essentially impossible due to terrible power management support for any hardware I can find. I'm used to 10 hours on my MacBook - how do I get that on Linux?
In my experience, you don't.
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#18The writer is a journalist. For techies using Mac, there's a bigger question of whether you want to just move from Mac to GNU/Linux.
I was waiting for a linux enthusiast to chime in with an option the article never even mentioned. It happens every single article, much like vegans on every mention of food.
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#19I need the state of the art hardware so I can .... open a terminal.
More like I need hardware that Just Works (a lot of Windows laptops that are of similar quality to MacBooks were nearly the same price, go figure) a native POSIX-like environment that works mostly with my Linux-centric tools and don’t like dealing with any more differences from my server than I have to but would rather not fight for hardware compatibility constantly.
But what definitely is bothersome with the MacBooks is that I can’t use CUDA worth a damn without an nVidia GPU so if I work with most machine learning toolkits I have to ship the code off to some expensive cloud just to see a quick run for prototyping or port all my code to support Apple APIs specifically instead of the open source ones primarily centered around nVidia tooling.
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#20I need the state of the art hardware so I can .... open a terminal.
What does using a terminal as your UI have to do with the demands you are placing on your hardware?