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I'm happy the new MBP sucked.

Saved lots of money, and I discovered Arch linux. Spent a couple of days and made a much better personalised OS environment than what OSX dictates to use. Plus, I learned lots in the process.

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Until you try to do first presentation on some conference, when your connected display crashes and you start typing xrandr / fighting Wayland/xorg drivers ... I see it all the time, never happened to Macs.

Also setting up printer, external monitors, battery saver (if you want to close your lid and not worry about whether that will drain the battery), and updating your packages and realizing something broke right before an important deadline.

Can we dial back the FUD? I present all the time with my Linux laptop that does not require any dongles to connect to HDMI, VGA and DVI projectors. Oh yeah and airplay works just fine too. Been that way for as long as I can remember. This isn't 1997.

'It works for me' is not an solid basis for the opinion that OP is posting FUD. Clearly the problem exists for some subset of people, or we wouldn't be talking about it. That doesn't meant that most people encounter it - but it's still a problem.

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