The web is now abuzz with “man overoard” posts in the wake of Miguel de Icaza’s very public announcement that he has ditched desktop Linux in favor of Apple’s Mac platform. “I purchased a Mac laptop and, while I fully intended to keep using Linux, the dogfooding driver was no longer there,” writes de Icaza. “To me, the fragmentation of Linux as a platform, the multiple incompatible distros, and the incompatibilities across versions of the same distro were my Three Mile Island/Chernobyl.”
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