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Even if this is true, there’s a crucial difference: 90% of what you want to do in MacOS is very simple and works, on 2000 Linux nothing was simple at all. I know because I only used Linux back then.


By around mid-2000s, Mandrake made things reasonably easy, so maybe the headline is a bit too eager in the comparison, but not that far off.


Analogy is not perfect therefore I am going to ignore everything you wrote?


No, but if you compare two case:

Mac: 90% is easy and works, 10% is really hard Linux: 90% is hard, 10% is really hard

I don’t think that focusing on the really hard 10% is very fair.




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