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Mar 9, 2023Liked by Dan Scott

Sounds like your main beef with Linux was hardware support. I agree that it's an issue, but they don't have all of the vendors making free drivers for them like Windows (and Mac I presume) does. I also went the other direction. I used (and liked) Linux for many years while still using Windows until all of my development tools were there and it worked on the hardware I owned. Once that happened, I switched and never looked back. Now I'm immersed in the Linux way of doing things and it's very hard for me to be productive on other OS's.

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Mar 8, 2023Liked by Dan Scott

I was expecting some general lame excuse from dumping Linux, but OK. Interesting though that my experience has led me in the exact opposite direction. I remember when OSX first came out and whereas I had been trying to implement a daily Linux laptop in my work environment with constant glitches, I jumped on OSX immediately since it was at heart Unix (BSD, whatever). Kept with OSX for some time, but got sick of having to upgrade my hardware, on which Linux worked fine, but also the direction Apple was going (propriety, closed systems, etc.). By this time Linux worked perfect for me at home and work and have never gone back. If there's any problem I have with Linux is that I always have to try out new or different distros (just like I've installed helloSystem on a laptop).

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