Why I'm leaving Linux • Hacker News Board

Re: Why I'm leaving Linux

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Post by urlwolf » Thu, May 17, 2018, 3:24 PM UTC

timrichard wrote: post #26

hugg wrote: post #6

to sum it up: if you use a distro where you have to configure everything yourself it will be hard and things will break

I think that's fair. My take was that the person chose a bleeding edge rolling release to feel 133t but had an unrealistic expectation about stability. I love ArchLinux, and used it on my primary dev laptop a while back. But you have to expect breaking changes that take some manual maintenance from time to time, and choose your update window accordingly. Maybe not really close to a conference presentation. There isn'…

You can try Manjaro, it's a tamed arch. It's what I use. Very happy with it...

Re: Why I'm leaving Linux

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Post by timrichard » Thu, May 17, 2018, 5:15 PM UTC

urlwolf wrote: post #31

timrichard wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's fair. My take was that the person chose a bleeding edge rolling release to feel 133t but had an unrealistic expectation about stability. I love ArchLinux, and used it on my primary dev laptop a while back. But you have to expect breaking changes that take some manual maintenance from time to time, and choose your update window accordingly. Maybe not really close to a conference presentation. There isn'…

You can try Manjaro, it's a tamed arch. It's what I use. Very happy with it...

More than happy with Arch itself on various machines :) Was just pointing out that it's good to factor in a little time in case troubleshooting is needed. Although that's mitigated by keeping up to date with their news feed...

Re: Why I'm leaving Linux

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Post by delete2 » Thu, May 17, 2018, 5:27 PM UTC

codemusings wrote: post #3

After reading these gems: For long my opinion is that to be a real Linux user one should use as few GUI as possible and the Linux kernel is optimized for servers, not for desktops I can't tell if this is satire or not.

and he's using Arch, not even a mainstream distro

Re: Why I'm leaving Linux

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Post by negativ0 » Thu, May 17, 2018, 8:06 PM UTC

icyflame wrote: post #30

Used all three major OSes. HDMI not working is an extremely common problem on MacOS. every event I go to has either only VGA or HDMI that doesn't work after three adapters between thunderbolt and HDMI/VGA/etc. Networking can become a problem in MacOS and Windows and when it stops working on these OSes, the only thing to do is restart your computer. MacOS also freezes a lot if your computer is about 3 years old. Won't…

weird, i'm still using the 2012 MBP retina not maxed out, only issue is that i need to replace the battery. other than that is the most reliable machine i ever had

Re: Why I'm leaving Linux

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Post by hollerith » Fri, May 18, 2018, 2:37 AM UTC

icyflame wrote: post #30

Used all three major OSes. HDMI not working is an extremely common problem on MacOS. every event I go to has either only VGA or HDMI that doesn't work after three adapters between thunderbolt and HDMI/VGA/etc. Networking can become a problem in MacOS and Windows and when it stops working on these OSes, the only thing to do is restart your computer. MacOS also freezes a lot if your computer is about 3 years old. Won't…

>MacOS also freezes a lot if your computer is about 3 years old.

On my 2011 Mac mini, I've experienced less than one event that deserves the description "freeze" per 1000 hours of use.

Re: Why I'm leaving Linux

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Post by Toast_25 » Fri, May 18, 2018, 8:29 PM UTC

MrLeftHand wrote: post #23

I can understand his reasoning in some way. I liked to play around with compiling kernel and install stuff from source to get a very personalised experience. Now I just want to be an end user and have an OS which I install and majority of things work right out of the box, or at least they are easy to configure. So I can concentrate on other things. A lot of times there is something that is missing from the UI and you…

IMHO debian comes closer. I like to install the server version and then install gnome-core on top of that, sort out the dependencies of what I need and I'm golden.

apt is way better than apt-get anyways.