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Not everyone wants to spend time on setting up drivers and figuring out why something no longer works after an update, even if they have the skills. I can setup Linux on almost any HW, I choose not too, and use Mac and Windows instead because I have better things to do with my time. Out of the box hardware works out of the box and allows you to do something you actually enjoy. If you enjoy setting up and maintaining Linux, by all means, you should do so, but other people have other hobbies.

Mind you, it’s not like MacOS or Windows are a joy to setup either, especially on obscure hardware, but if you buy first party hardware, that hard work is usually done by people who get paid to make it their full time “hobby” so I don’t have to.

As an example, there is a YouTube dude who does nothing but installs Linux distorts. He is an expert VIM user even though he doesn’t code, just edits config files and plays in the terminal while looking super serious. I spend time in VSCode writing actual code. It’s less cool looking but far more productive for me to use MacOS for that. To each their own.

> Not everyone wants to spend time on setting up drivers and figuring out why something no longer works

Cool, for starters, linux is not like that anymore, I remember setting up BSD from a copy from a magazine, that's not how it is today thank god so that point is as useless for this context.

> it’s not like MacOS or Windows are a joy to setup either, especially on obscure hardware

Ok; now we are loading full OS's up,(on obscure hardware?) bit of change of focus from your last comment. But whatever. Nobody in their working mind needs to load up a bootstraped OSX+n so unless you're a complete pirate who requires sketch, you better have a hook and an eye patch before i'll entertain your fallacy. Windows is super easy, maybe more than your mom, as we're all throwing ideas out?.

Your last one is kinda too comical to make fun of..

> As an example, there is a YouTube dude who does nothing but installs Linux distorts. He is an expert VIM user even though he doesn’t code, just edits config files and plays in the terminal while looking super serious. I spend time in VSCode writing actual code. It’s less cool looking but far more productive for me to use MacOS for that. To each their own.

Yeah, to each their own. But, we're talking about one article, one very specific article, actually, we are again talking about 1 article. Not examples.

But, this was fun. Moron.

I'll be sure to take all your comments/nonsense with a glacier of salt.

If you'd like some attention for your work, do something and share it, the OP had the balls to do write something and accept my criticism, where is yours ? You're a bit worse than that little shit i take after I've taken a shit.. The inconvenience.

Using linux doesn't mean spending time setting it up and maintaining it...at all. Not every distro is arch or gentoo.

Plenty of people using linux have other hobbies, and certainly don't want to bother dealing excessively with configs and the like.

Insinuating that people use Linux because it's 'cool looking' but less productive for writing software is patently absurd.

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