Richard,<div><br></div><div>I currently use a Mac as well, but until November last year, I ran laptops with RHEL for the previous 7 years. In the beginning, things were painful, but my last one, at Lenovo T60 was pretty easy. I mentioned the wackiness with the external VGA port on this thread earlier, but other than that, never had a problem with the machine. I know I'm a pretty light "desktop" user, chat, web, email, and a little office; but for all those things RHEL, or CentOS worked well. I would have run Fedora as my laptop distro, but was lazy and didn't want to re-install every 4-6 months.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What kind of issues were you having with running a Linux Laptop?</div><div>*crosses fingers* Please don't say hibernate/suspend...</div><div><br></div><div>-Scott</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Richard Bronosky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Richard@bronosky.com">Richard@bronosky.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I've vented on this very issue many times. I have been doing all my<br>
work via SSH to Linux servers (ssh+screen+bash+vim+mysql all day<br>
everyday) for so long I thought of myself as a "Linux guy"... until I<br>
tried using a laptop. The entire GUI stack just drives me crazy. But,<br>
it was trying to get a decent portable workstation that drove me to<br>
give my ThinkPad back to my employer and ask for a MacBook Pro. I<br>
can't wait until I can scrap the Mac forever. Until I can spend 75% of<br>
my computing time doing my work and not trying to get my machine to<br>
work, I'm a "Linux server guy" and a "Mac laptop guy". I hate that it<br>
has to be that way!<br>
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.!# RichardBronosky #!.<br>
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM, James Sumners <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Warning: This message contributes nothing helpful to the conversation.<br>
><br>
> The problem detailed in this thread is one of the biggest reasons (top<br>
> 3) I decided to buy an Apple laptop. I had been using Dell laptops<br>
> issued to me through work/school. So I was well aware of the problems<br>
> that can arise when using a Linux laptop to do presentations. I must<br>
> say, I am extremely happy I made the decision I did.<br>
><br>
> A Unix based OS with a GUI that makes doing presentations and such<br>
> easy? That would be OS X.</blockquote><div> </div></div><br></div>