Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2014-10-02, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Since it has now become amazingly difficult to get a laptop if you're
>> not planning to use Windows, at least around here, I'm wondering what
>> the rest of you fine folks do when it comes to purchasing a laptop?
>> Next time this comes up, I'd rather not have to spend all day on
>> something that used to take fifteen minutes.
>
> I know this is probably a bit sacrilegious, but recently I have been
> tending to get a Mac laptop, and run any linux distributions I need
> inside a VM. OS X is (just barely) tolerable enough to be usable for
> most of my desktop purposes. (It's not really cost-effective compared
> to non-Apple laptops, unfortunately.)
For the last five years, I think it is, I've had the Ubuntu netbook remix
on my HP netbook. I keep thinking about moving to CentOS - I rather
dislike Ubuntu's idea of where to put things, how to update, the
almost-bleeding-edge frequency of updates....
If I were buying a laptop, I'd probably go for a Dell Lattitude
(*enterprise* grade laptop, not consumer grade, which are crap, intended
to run WinDoze, and they expect you to buy a new laptop the next time M$
releases a new version of WinDoze, since it needs that much more in the
way of performance....
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