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Shopping for a laptop as a Linux user:

Screenshot from the Simpsons where Otto is talking to Marge and Homer standing next to a window in their house with a caption “Oh wow, windows!.. I don’t think I can afford this place.”

  • @[email protected]
    3•9 months ago

    There are a lot of smart people making sure Apple hardware supports Linux. There is a limited number of variations, the hardware itself has high built quality and Apple pushes support into the Linux community so the hardware can more easily run Linux.

    The same cannot be said about any random windows laptop.

    As others have noted, if you want a Linux first laptop, there are options.

    However this idea that Apple spies on its users has no merit. It’s a claim I have only witnessed being made by the witless.

    I’ve been in the internet long enough to know not to expect fools to accept they are fools.

    Unlike the morons of the internet, I am always ready to be proven wrong. However, it doesn’t look like that’s about to happen here.

    • @[email protected]
      10•9 months ago

      Have you considered that your approach may contribute to your difficulties dealing with such people? The tone of your messages is extremely aggressive.

      • @[email protected]
        2•9 months ago

        No, I’m good. I’m not here to make friends. I’m not even expecting to challenge anyone’s techno-religion. At best I would say this is devil advocacy but it’s not quite that since it’s not about what I believe or do not believe. But it’s about what others believe and the display of fervent belief in others intrigue me, especially where it exists in the face of clear unambiguous reality.

        For example, Trump supporters fascinate me in this same way. People say being nice is a better approach there as well, but i am not trying to deal with them or change their minds either. In that situation I refer to it as stick poking.

        Again, it’s the belief that intrigues me. The sociology behind it is understudied.