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Installed Debian on 2010 Mac Pro
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I don't believe it works "flawlessly" and I'm tired of people exaggerating their experience in such a misleading way. There's always some hitches and I don't get why people basically have to cake their OS experience with makeup like this.
It does work flawlessly, or at least I haven't encountered flaw. Why should I downplay my experience for people like you?
Because you're making stuff up. Literally every install of an OS has some little issue here and there-- but this is my mistake for assuming any Linux community could be humble enough to cut the BS and stop acting like Linux is a flawless experience. I'm out, keep hanging out at that ~5% market cap and wondering why folks don't flock over despite it being free.
I have most certainly had OS installs (from every vendor) that worked flawlessly for a while. Why are you pretending as if those don't exist?
Not to pretend I know it all, but have actively been using Linux on desktops and normal laptops for years now and I do have to agree.
Those old Macs are actually quite hard to get working right (fans, touchpad etc).
It is not impossible, but it takes quite an investment.
But Macs aside, nowadays a lot of desktops ánd laptops install flawlessly though.