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by marcus_holmes 3278 days ago
yeah, interesting that the survey doesn't report the numbers of dissatisfied Mac users who plan on switching to GNU/Linux. I suspect they were never given this as an option.

Anecdata would suggest that the desire to move to something else is more prevalent amongst devs and techies. The MacBook is becoming a consumer device.

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> The MacBook is becoming a consumer device.

I think it always has been. The "pro" has been aimed more at artists than techies, and even there thing have been sagging as of late.

That Macbooks ran unix was a legacy of Next, and there in turn i was a convenient choice for rapidly bringing up a usable OS.

The BSD side of OSX/MacOS have been largely stagnant since the first release, afaik.

>doesn't report the numbers of dissatisfied Mac users who plan on switching to GNU/Linux

It's the year of the Linux desktop, at last! Maybe it really will happen before I start drawing my pension after all.