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Alex Gwartney

At the time I moved away from mac because I was using c++ and I wanted a better graphics card. So I had bought a gaming laptop to suit the need.

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Jean-Rene Bouvier

Makes sense - at least for the graphics part, unless you want to pay a fortune for the high-end macPros.

Then unless your windows programs are unavailable in the UN*X world (e.g. probably related to gaming), you'll be much happier with Linux .

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Shauna Gordon

probably related to gaming

Even that's a non-issue for the most part these days, really.

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Alex Gwartney

I mean sort of is considering my mac does not have a 1060 in it and will melt LOL. and my desktop has a 1080 and cost the same amount of a basic mac.

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Shauna Gordon • Edited

Huh?

If you're replying to me, the non-issue I was referring to was Jean's "Windows programs unavailable in the UNIX world (e.g. probably related to gaming), you'll be much happier with Linux" assertion.

Considering I spent Sunday playing Borderlands 3 on my Manjaro rig, it's literally a non-issue on the gaming front for the vast majority of games these days.

Basically, unless you need something like Photoshop proper, which is notorious for not playing well with Linux (because Adobe), you'd very likely be happy with Linux.