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by ChrisMarshallNY 59 days ago
Cool. I wasn’t trying to posture. I was just mentioning my own experience.

My experience, for the last 40 years, has been people automatically attacking me, for using Apple kit. I think that Linux folks had the same, for a while, but these days, it’s a lot more accepted.

People just blindly hate Apple, and drop all semblance of reason, when considering the platform (and people who program for it).
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alamortsubite 59 days ago
I don't think many people blindly hate Apple, but it's fair to point out your Catalina install is obsolete.

If I could install Linux on the Neo, I'd probably buy one. My daily-driver is also from 2012 (XPS L321X). It's not hobbled by the OS like your Air or the Neo, however, and happily runs the latest release from Debian.

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ChrisMarshallNY 59 days ago
> I don't think many people blindly hate Apple

40 years of being on the receiving end of that hatred says different.

A lot of people really hate Apple. I am not one to judge the validity of their rancor. It tends to be more complicated than "Napster Bad; Beer Good.".

But there is no question that it gets nasty, personal, and very, very tiresome.

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