Re: This FOSS Thang :-)

On 3/21/24 10:34 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

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On 3/19/24 4:39 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

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On 3/16/24 5:32 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

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Linux distros cover the full spectrum of maintenance time. Choose
your sweet spot.

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Which ones are as low for setup & maintenance as Apple?  Name names.

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Debian. Ubuntu. Arch.
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That's just the ones I've used. I left out Gentoo because it takes a bit more
effort at setup time.

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So what websites can I go buy these distro's preinstalled on the hardware?

 I believe you've already been told. But,...
 Starting with bare metal, tell me how to install MacOS on an "Apple".

First, brand new, out-of-the-box, MacOS is already installed.
But if you grossly mess up and the recovery partition's been destroyed too so as to truly need to do a bare metal install, the good news is that all Macs for the past decade support having the OS reinstalled over the Internet.
Here's two step-by-step primers:
<https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904>
<https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+use+Internet+Recovery+to+install+macOS+to+a+new+SSD/119499>
Its been years, but I think I may have done such an install once; my recollection is that it takes a little time at the beginning to get it rolling, and then its a "check back periodically".
Naturally, the speed of one's internet connection is a factor as well, plus its smarter to do this task while plugged into a hardware Ethernet run, rather than over wireless.  Likewise, if a laptop, while plugged into power.  But AFAIC, both of these are basic common sense regardless of whose hardware or OS.

All Linux distros are great at maintenance.

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And MacOS and Windows isn't?  They've also had "auto-update" for years now.

 LOL at Windows "auto-update".  Slow, and often requiring reboots. And no real
choice about it these days.
 

One needs to experience just how well integrated the various 'ecosystem'
pieces are to appreciate them.

 :-D
 When I hear the word "integrated", my mind translates it as "vendor lock-in".
Rampant in the domain in which I work.
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Sure, there's no doubt that there's also vendor lock-in that's another element to all of this, as these are methods to improve stickiness.  But the trade space for the customer is improved convenience, productivity, ease of use, etc.  A more savvy consumer will evaluate just where there's potential proprietary factors that hold what types of data potentially hostage, to know how to prevent such a vulnerability.
-hh