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sleepybrett on Jan 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

I'm using them because they offer me a unix with a nice ui and more premium software options (sorry guys, I'll take something like pixelmator over something like gimp EVERY DAMN TIME)

jcadam on Jan 10, 2017 [–]

And that's exactly why I switched from Linux to OS X many years ago (back then on a PowerMac G3). But the mac platform has taken on such a "consumer" focus (both in hardware and software), and in the meantime Linux has come such a long way, that switching back was a no-brainer.

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