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Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop. The grass is not greener on the other side
Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop. The grass is not greener on the other side
April 02, 2021 — Carlos Fenollosa
This article is part of a series:
- Seven years later, I bought a new Macbook. For the first time, I don’t love it
- How I moved my setup from a Mac to a Linux laptop
- This article
- (TBD) My review of the M1 Macbook Air
Due to very bad decisions by Apple’s product marketing teams, Mac hardware and software had been in steady decline since 2016.
Therefore, there has been a trickle of articles on the Geekosphere about people switching from Macs to Linux or Windows.
This is the contrarian view. Don’t do it…
This thread was posted by one of our members via one of our news source trackers.
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