Date: 10 Jun 2016 20:59:05 -0000 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: murk.fletcher@gmail.com Subject: Re: advice for buying a laptop Message-ID: <20160610205905.44289.qmail@ary.lan> In-Reply-To: <CAH=3fOMnkKg2Jr4o=S2YYRE2KNoN5uBB0EMKHBHM_1Nr-10qEQ@mail.gmail.com>
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>You sound like a creative person. As am I, therefore nothing but the latest >MacBook Pro will do it for me. ... OK so far. >I usually remove OS X, install Windows 10 ... Oh, gross. FreeBSD under virtualbox works just dandy under OS X. It's not hard to set it up so that X applications on FreeBSD talk to the native XQuartz server. Indeed, that's how I'm typing this message. I used to run native FreeBSD on a ThinkPad, but keeping the X server working became very painful, and the ports of Firefox and Chrome are flaky. The Mac has an adequate implementation of most unixy stuff, web browsers work way better under MacOS than under BSD, and the BSD VM is there when I want real BSD for things that don't work under MacOS or when I'm doing development of stuff I'm going to run on my BSD server in a datacenter. R's, John
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