[geeks] Can't decide on an OS

[Cory Smelosky]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Andrew Jones wrote:

> Linux support for proprietary hardware is touch-and-go for obvious reasons: 
> it's proprietary.
>
> The only distribution with steadily-decent support for bizarre mac firmwares 
> is Fedora, because The Mac Firmware Guy in the linux community (mjg59 aka 
> Matthew Garrett) is a Fedora board member.

I've noticed this when I installed Fedora.  Surprisingly it "just worked".

>
> Even with Fedora, your mileage WILL vary because it's proprietary hardware 
> made by a vendor who is very explicitly hostile to your goals.
>
> On 09/24/2013 04:44 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've gotten too angry at OS X being too slow and bloated to the point I
>> needed to pick another one.  Windows is...windows I don't really think I
>> need to explain that.  Linux makes me tremendously angry due to how
>> easily I can break it along with all the politics involved (really, the
>> distro I can stand isn't installing for me).  The BSDs have lacklustre X
>> support (especially on a macbook pro).  CP/M isn't going to run quite
>> right and I don't think FreeDOS would support my hardware quite right.
>> Haiku isn't going to have the kind of hardware support either.
>> 
>> If I can swap out the MBP's wifi chip for an ath5k (ath9k eventually,
>> but I have an ath5k on hand I might be happier.)
>> 
>> Are there any sane OSes i'm forgetting?
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