That’s odd because I used Linux mint for a year now and it works find. I even upgrade it to newer version without any issue. Stability is superb. No bosd and such nonsenses.
You don’t need to use terminal. I personally do not use it very often. You need to choose a well maintain and supported distros like Ubuntu or fedora to ensure a good experience. More obesure ones like cub Linux and whatnots are full of bugs and stability issues. Probably that’s why your machine do not boot.What exactly is a "Linux machine"? I thought that was a joke response. It's just a PC with linux installed.
And I've had installs of linux that I barely touched - left working perfectly fine on a hard drive in one of my PCs- then a month or two later I went to boot it- and it wouldn't. For no reason I can possibly discern. I had a home server running Linux for a few years- and it was OK, until I wanted to do anything with it beyond just file server duties, Like say, hook up a blu-ray burner and use it to archive my files through a RDP connection. It was crap at real world tasks like that. Switched to Windows and have never regretted it, as all the software I need is just better. And yeah yeah I know... maybe if I spent years compiling my own code and learning command line BS I could do the same things- but I'm simply not interested. I'd rather just use good, already available commercial software. Not community crap-wear.
The idea that one of my Macs would ever be the nightmare of dependancies and mixed bag of open-sore applications that I've witnessed with Linux is a joke to me. And I'm very platform agnostic BTW- I don't dislike Linux for the lack of using it. I actually dislike it because I've used it.
As for computers lasting physically- Mac laptops have always been the top of the heap for me. I had a Titanium PowerBook that I bought in 2001- it lasted until 2012 when I bought a retina MacBook Pro.
That laptop is still going strong for someone I gave it to, when I got a 2015 Retina MacBook Pro. I expect to have this thing for many years, as now Apple no longer makes a MacBook I want.
All I need to do to maintain it is open the bottom about once a year and blow the dust out of it.
Or, Linux just sucks on some hardware. That's not a lie.
Winscp + PuTTY is not craploads.
It's a terminal. It's no more outdated looking than xterm. I wouldn't even say it's a displeasure. It's use is the same, just a different "language" to learn.
Who says I wasn't using a "good" distro?
Well, seems like you don’t like the learning curve and prefers the familiar experiences of more mainstream OS like windows and macOS. To be honest, I feel the same way at first, even for a couple of months. I even had to clean reinstall the distros a few times because some files just got deleted, some software setting were tweaked into a mess and I had no way of fixing/reversing the screw ups.
Neon is a new distros coming out in 2016. If you want good support and stability, why would you use it? LXLE is also quite new compared to either mint or Ubuntu and as obscure as Neon, I did say mainstream distros didn’t I? Dumpster fire is a vague term, you provided no examples and I had no idea what you meant by that.
Im curious which MacBook you own. There's an idea a lot of people have that the last gen of Retina MBP's (like my mid 2015 ) aren't user upgradeable, when they are fairly easily upgradable.
Im curious which MacBook you own. There's an idea a lot of people have that the last gen of Retina MBP's (like my mid 2015 ) aren't user upgradeable, when they are fairly easily upgradable.
I can replace the SSD and battery, which is really all I care about replacing.
Now granted, replacing the battery is a bit of an adventure, since they are glued down, but for anyone with modest 'under the hood' experience with computers, it's easy enough to remove and replace. Given how long these last (my 2012 I gave away still keeps a good charge, for example) I can't really imagine actually needing to replace the battery more than once in the lifetime of the MacBook.
Also the 16GB of RAM thing- I personally think this is overrated as well. Now, I'm a fan of having all the bells and whistles that can be crammed into a box, but I do find a lot of people just don't really have a need for as much as they think they do. (Not saying you, just the general public really.)
I do a lot of pretty heavy lifting with my MacBook- editing video and creating Logic Pro X projects with tons of plug-ins across nearly 100 tracks, and yet 16GB is plenty to do most of the tasks without the machine breaking a sweat.
And frankly, anything more taxing that this laptop couldn't handle, I question if more RAM would really be the bottleneck more than it's just *overall* the wrong computer for the job. That is, a desktop workstation would probably be the tool, not a laptop just because it has 32 or 64 or whatever amounts of RAM.
But again, that's just an observation I have- I'm sure there are some specialty cases where someone could *REAL WORLD* actually use more than 16GB of RAM in a laptop- just I don't really believe that's near as many people as think that's the case. (IE: peeps that mostly do social media tasks and the occasional photoshop or something crowing on about more RAM when in reality they probably hardly ever come close to maxing out the 16GB. Now, gaming, that may be another story entirely- but really... big time gaming on a Mac? Just get a PC laptop for that already
Also, the linux derail is really interesting, but maybe not in this thread.
It's pointless to debate as you constantly take all stances (typically contradicting yourself in the process) and ignore previous posts. Like the fact that my Quadro is just fine under Windows. Or that these "unpopular" distros are BASED ON UBUNTU LTS.
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