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		OJFord on March 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thinkpad X210 > My experience with laptops has always been that every built-in component works with no configuration, which isn’t true for Linux. Are you talking about laptops that shipped with Linux though? I suspect not. You'd have about as much fun putting macOS on a laptop that shipped with Windows, and vice versa, as you would putting Linux on either of them.

saagarjha on March 18, 2019 [–]

This isn't a valid comparison, since macOS doesn't have to goal that Linux and Windows do of running on a large variety of hardware. And this shows: it's a lot easier to install Linux on any old laptop (or even Windows, to some extent) than it is macOS.

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