Torvalds Switches to a Mac

renai42 writes "Linux creator Linus Torvalds said this afternoon that he's now running an Apple Macintosh as his main desktop, mainly for work reasons, although partly simply because he's a self-described "technology whore" and got the machine for free." And yes, he is running Linux on it ;)

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Re:What's the date?

[Anonymous Coward]

There's a daily dupe scheduled, starting Friday, every other day until then. That is all.

Validation from the leader of the Free world

[babbage]

Linux creator Linus Torvalds said this afternoon that he's now running an Apple Macintosh as his main desktop

I feel so validated right now.

I've been using Linux for a decade now, but dammit there's only so much pain I'm willing to endure from my desktop computer. X11 sucks, and it's holding Linux back. I've given too many hours of my life fighting against arcane config files just so I could get a mouse to work or a display resolution that didn't make my eyes bleed. Never again. I've got more much better things to do than that.

It's nice to see that the leader of the Free world appears to agree :-)

I'm curious to see if this will be a motivator among the groups that have been messing around with a "usable" desktop Linux for years now without actually getting anywhere...

Re:I switched...

[Cheese Grits]

That makes me wish I had taken the blue pill.

Re:Big Deal

[cdrudge]

Bad example. B&D makes many of the tools Sears sells under the Craftsman name. Other then the outside label, they are identical.

Re:Just hardware, no apple OS.

[untaken_name]

Nah. They'll still charge you for them. You have to opt-out if you don't want them, and they don't let you opt-out. Even if you move and/or register with false info, they'll find you. The Trendy Mafia is inescapable. You can't trick the white-trenchcoated Apple thugs. They own j00, and they look more stylish than you while they're at it. Plus, they get more chicks than you.