Why Run Linux On Macs?

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Posted by timothy on Sunday January 18, 2015 @01:27AM from the horses-for-courses dept.

jones_supa writes Apple has always had attractive and stylish hardware, but there are always some customers opting to run Linux instead of OS X on their Macs. But why? One might think that a polished commercial desktop offering designed for that specific lineup of computers might have less rough edges than a free open source one. Actually there's plenty of motivations to choose otherwise. A redditor asked about this trend and got some very interesting answers. What are your reasons?

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systemd by Dan+East · 2015-01-18 01:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Why run linux on mac hardware? To get systemd, of course.

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1. Re:systemd by real+gumby · 2015-01-18 04:31 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I presume by the end of this year we'll have systemd running on bare iron, handing off to emacs, which then allows you to run instances of Linux in different buffers.
  (Why yes I am a lifelong emacs user which means I am allowed to make fun of it)
Re:Mac OS is too susceptible to viruses by quenda · 2015-01-18 02:09 · Score: 4, Funny

You know that hackers are always attacking mainstream OS. Use an obscure one and everyone leaves you alone.
BSD?
Re: a better question by TWX · 2015-01-18 02:27 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah! I can enjoy those Blu-Rays I have on my 5K iMac amd make use of the high resolution!

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Re:a better question by Anonymous Coward · 2015-01-18 02:32 · Score: 5, Funny

He was too busy masturbating over how awesome Apple is to read your silly comment.
Re: a better question by Aighearach · 2015-01-18 09:56 · Score: 3, Funny

Most people buying an iMac get the base version, not the 5k display one.
You complain about anecdotes, then pull that out of your ass?
It makes sense, he omitted the anecdote and jumped straight ahead to an unsupported assertion.
Personally I prefer the bare assertion, it takes less time to suffer through and laugh down than the anecdote. I don't know how many times somebody has threatened to stab me for insulting their grandpappy when actually no, I just wasn't interested in weighing the anecdote about him.
Re: a better question by Anonymous Coward · 2015-01-18 14:00 · Score: 0, Funny

OSX is horrible. Really, really horrible.
Linux has systemd, so sorry but you lose.