OSX works on maybe 3 models made by 1 vendor. So maybe that's just you being unlucky about your hardware? Hard to tell over an internet comment.īut let's be real here: Linux as a general purpose desktop OS mostly works on pretty much any hardware you throw at it. I've yet to experience any issues like this on any of my hardware, but I've been shopping around from Linux-friendly OEMs like Dell XPS laptops and Lenovo ThinkPads. Then it works but your wifi cuts off when you're playing music. > Sleep absolutely definitely will never work, unless you muck around in the kernel for a bit. Because if I wanted MacOS I'd run that, don't you think?

> Linux on the desktop is nowhere near macOS.Īnd that's because it's a different OS. > Oh you'll find new entries for the list.Īgreed in a sense. It's just that the entry fee is still too high. With all of these disadvantages, though, the 'all the way down' reliability and no-bullshit you get from a Linux desktop (or server) is worth its weight in gold. Though Ubuntu (and to a much lesser extent, some others) have come light-years toward producing a consistent, coherent Linux desktop experience, it still lags painfully behind OSX and Windows. In the last 10+ years, my wifi experience on Linux has been very solid, often more solid than my OSX-using co-workers. Especially in the last decade, it often works without any low-level tweaking, and I can get it going in MOST cases without too much fuss.

So, I can't directly disagree with most of what you said on point, except for sleep/hibernate/suspend. My desktop has dozens of 80x24 terminals and a big web browser window, typically running under

I am very much of a 'back-end', 'server' kind of guy. I've been exclusively Linux as my desktop and laptop, personally and professionally, since the 1990s, and I manage Linux on laptops and desktops of some family members.

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