On Sunday January 05 2020 11:17:16 Christopher Bort wrote: >many years. I have a linux VM in VirtualBox that works quite >nicely for running any X11 apps I need or want. It may be a >'heavyweight' solution, but one of the reasons I did it >originally was to see if I could comfortably do all of my day to >day computing tasks under linux. It turns out that I can and I >actually spend a fair amount of time in the linux VM. I have a
I have done this too, years ago now, to see how a properly upgradable Linux distro would do as a desktop OS (my main workhorse in the late 90s was a Linux rig without a DE environment at all). If memory serves me well I discovered on that VM that the KDE4 environment was actually very similar to the earlier OS X versions (up till 10.4 probably), so I quickly replaced the VM with the cheapest netbook that could run 8Gb. I've since replaced that one, but these have been my beater machines, and I still use the KDe4/Plasma4 DE (but with lots of self-built KF5 apps). Sadly the Plasma5 DE seems to be aligning with the examples set by Apple and Microsoft (but still without instilling the idea you're trespassing on your own computer). My Mac is a MBP 8.1 (early 2011 13" with 2.7Ghz i7) which is still plenty fast for most of what I do nowadays, it now has 16Gb (bought with 4), a 1Tb SSHD, Thunderbolt dock so a few USB3 ports, a nice 22" external screen and runs 10.9.5 because even now I don't really feel an urge to upgrade (partly because I managed to get Qt 5.9.8 to build there, *with* the X11 backend if you please :)). Me too I don't plan on replacing it with another Mac, not with a new one at least. Too bad for that expensive Thunderbolt dock... In fact, since we adopted a puppy in september I'm spending most of my time downstairs, working on the Linux system instead of on the Mac... R. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
