Wow apple really did - they arrived where microsoft was 20 years ago.
Apple ads used to be about the experience, the lifestyle, simple and elegant.
Now all we get is ‚3.7 times faster‘, ‚13x faster graphics card‘, max and pro CPUs (probably home, home pro and home premium too some time …).
‚advanced thermal architecture‘ ….

Bullshit bingo deluxe …🤦

Don't forget the timeless classic:
"Our fastest and most advanced <product> yet!"

Well I sure would have hoped so, otherwise what are you doing?

ffs. it is thier pro laptops...

@Demolishun Desktop Linux is ready for end users if there are no needs for particular software. Of course, it does help to keep Linux compatibility in mind when buying the hardware because some vendors just don't give a shit.

@Demolishun Depending on the distro, you can fix most of the things also via the GUI. Not to mention that I didn't have trouble in the first place except with setting up the printer-scanner that I bought ten years ago with no consideration to Linux.

The reason why tutorials use the CLI is because it's faster to show. Also, the CLI commands don't depend on your system language while your GUI does so that you'd have to make every tutorial for every language.

Not to mention that you even CAN fix things while the two most frequent tips in MS' help forums are rebooting and re-installing the OS because you just can't troubleshoot Windows.

Yeah, you shouldn't have to watch for the hardware, but that decision is with the hardware manufacturers.

@Demolishun If you don't want to tinker and just want things nicely OOTB, I recommend checking out Linux Mint Cinnamon, i.e. the live USB stick without installation just for having a look.

That's what I chose for the end users in my family who have no IT background at all. It's also why I'm using Mint myself so that I would catch any potential troubles myself.

@Demolishun That's unfortunate. I can't even advise properly because I've never had Nvidia graphics.

I remember that after one AMD Catalyst update for my HD 6850 back under Win 7, the video playback was blocky so that I reverted to the previous version and never updated the drivers again. :)

@Demolishun the question is, is a CLI really worse than the clusterfuck that is control panel?

At the beginning of the previous decade iPhone commercials used to be really cool showing nice features of the iPhone with a catchy background music, now are just devices randomly spinning, graphic effects which seems taken from a psychedelic trip and annoying “pumped” electronic music.