In my opinion the software is only a small portion of the problem. Sure, having a distro that provides a simple means of full disk encryption and other goodies like a notification bar (I love that one on Mac OS) would help.
But I there's one thing that REALLY prevents me from using Linux on a day to day basis: it's the hardware.
When I buy a Mac I just boot it up (okay, normally the first thing I do is to reinstall Mac OS - an old habbit from past Windows days) and am ready to go with state-of-the-art hardware (and hardware support). No fiddling around because I use graphics card that Linux does not support. No hassle because I dare to use a touchpad on a mobile device.
Buying outdated hardware only to be sure to have the necessary hardware support is not an option anymore. If there were some collaboration between a decent hardware vendor and a Linux distributor to push nice hardware onto the market - I guess this would actually help a lot more.
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the software is not the main problem, the hardware is
Date: 2014-05-20 09:57 am (UTC)But I there's one thing that REALLY prevents me from using Linux on a day to day basis: it's the hardware.
When I buy a Mac I just boot it up (okay, normally the first thing I do is to reinstall Mac OS - an old habbit from past Windows days) and am ready to go with state-of-the-art hardware (and hardware support). No fiddling around because I use graphics card that Linux does not support. No hassle because I dare to use a touchpad on a mobile device.
Buying outdated hardware only to be sure to have the necessary hardware support is not an option anymore. If there were some collaboration between a decent hardware vendor and a Linux distributor to push nice hardware onto the market - I guess this would actually help a lot more.