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As an academic exercise, bravo. As a practical matter, articles like this boggle my mind.

I really struggle to find a single reason how Linux makes sense on a laptop in 2015 as a primary OS when OS X is an option.

If you feel that strongly about running a Linux desktop, just do it in a VM.

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Because OSX workflow is bad? I use a MBA2013, as I'm wanting to work with iOS, and my desktop 99% of the time is Ubuntu with XFCE with works great (I don't use the webcam, and the ethernet doesn't hotplug, but I've used ethernet once in the time I've owned this device).

Not everyone likes Mac, Linux or Windows - why can't they just use what they want to use?

> Because OSX workflow is bad?

Not sure what that means.

> Not everyone likes Mac, Linux or Windows - why can't they just use what they want to use?

They can! Choice is great! But I genuinely--honestly--do not understand that choice in 2015.

If you have any feedback regarding running Arch Linux in a VM under Mac OS X, I would be glad to hear about it, I'm just curious about the drawbacks.

* OSX is NOT Linux * OSX is not free * OSX is not Open Source

"Free" as in FSF? No, but free as in "costless" - yes it is.

> * OSX is NOT Linux

Is this sportsball? Glad we're picking teams.

> * OSX is not free

Not really concerned with a Richard Stallman view of the world, nor am I about the semantics of free vs. free.

> * OSX is not Open Source

Parts of it are. And I fully support the rights of companies to distribute which parts of their own projects that they deem necessary.

> * OSX > * OSX > * OSX

Actually, it's OS X.

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