It can handle Multimedia as well as OSX. Till I can seamlessly move my mp3s and photos between devices (laptop, tablets, car stereo) and play/view seamlessly, Linux for a desktop is a pipe dream. Sure, Linux has players, but nothing that works "out of the box" like OSX. I can have a functional music player and photo viewing app with all my apple products. Google? Not easily, the Linux distro of the week? If you feel like playing tweak the OS for hours till it's right only to have an update blow it out of the water. Even Windows is better than Linux in this regard, not nearly as slick as Apple OSX (which is a true UNIX that's predicable without so much fluff that we see in Linux now). This comes from someone who's started using Linux when 16 (Slackware, Redhat) back in 1996 and other UNIXs--Solaris SPARC/x86, FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc. since. I'm even a fan of Debian (not the Ubuntu shit with flac pack or whatever package bullshit of the week they have now). I love *NIX, but Linux has become the bloated Windows wannabe of the *NIX world. Still no real filesystem as good as ZFS, they can't get their startup service manager figured out and people still split on it. Even OSX is a cleaner more predictable OS than the cluster fuck of Linux has become. But there will always be their Linux fan bois willing to admit a pig with lipstick is sexy. The ONLY thing that's kept Linux alive or progressing on the desktop is STEAM.

Have you EVER tried to manage multimedia (music & photos) between Linux devices? The one thing that OSX has hands down is seamless multimedia support. I can play music easy on my laptop, phone, ipad, and have it link to my car. I love FreeBSD / Linux, but they SUCK BALLS when it comes to managing multimedia files between devices with ease. It's NOT the hardware you're paying for. It's the OSX ecosystem of ease. Till Linux can let people move files between devices easily as let someone play their music on their laptop, phone, and car with ease, don't expect people to run from Apple.

I'm an OG Solaris (x86/SPARC) person who started at 15 in 95', then Linux/FreeBSD a few months after. Linux has lost it's way. FreeBSD has taken what was great from Solaris, BUT . . . . For someone who wants to run it on a laptop and or desktop it's not there yet. And sadly, the support for wifi and graphics are through a Linux KPI emulation layer; like that's not a performance hit. I was excited to go FreeBSD on a Frame.Work 16 laptop, and I had to piece meal it to get it semi functional like I did with Linux back in the mid 90s. Sure, there's a few models that are working right out of the box, but FreeBSD stated they'll try to get full support for a few Laptops and FW 13 & 16 are the two top at the list. Both of those laptops aren't bleeding edge or horribly new. I got the FW16 after it was out already 2years expecting it to be close. When you see that support there on the top tier laptops they are pushing for, then I think FreeBSD will start to make momentum over Linux or least be an desktop/laptop comparable option. Then maybe some will take interest into developing native drivers directly than using Linux KPI. I for one would love to see FreeBSD take over past Linux. It deserves its opportunity.

Drugs are bad mmmm'kay

After trying to get a Peplink 5G modem to work on their business internet line for two weeks with those idiots; I'll pass. They are the shittiest Telco I have dealt with. And the support engineers at the call center in the Philippines are worthless as tits on a bull. T-Mobile is bottom of the Telcos for me now Musk sure makes shitty partnerships likely to the lowest bidder

Spot on!

Makes the shit MySQL did trivial now Ever notice why "Source" has the word "Sore" in it? Because it's an Open Sore har-har

I disagree, 24hrs is too narrow a windkw

^^^^THIS Every IT perk I remember was a method to keep you arms length at the office

Funny, I worked on Intel, AMD, and Sun SPARC in 90s and 2000s. My AMD & SPARC equipment blew Intel out of the water. I'd say Intel started to suck around 1995

Jack's shit

Wait, you listen to Beethoven and you're on Slashdot? Maybe if you said some horrid musician like Taylor Swift I'd believe you. If you're on Slashdot you're more likely to be a Lizard Person listening to Kid Rock. Beethoven? What type of lame AI bot are you?

Preach on Brother BOFH! Amen!

SystemD was Linux attempt to "beat" Solaris 10s SMF feature which is lightyears better than SystemD. But most Linux bois only know a shitty Linux distro. SysV Init can do 90% of most start-up tasks even crazy ones. SMF refined it and added dependences and parallel runtimes. SystemD is jusf another Linux hack of shit; and no I'm not a Linux hater, but a hater of the distros whom have lost the meaning of what Linux was meant to be.

I'm sure these launches don't cause any pollution. I mean, Musk wouldn't use Tesla as a way to null the "carbon" costs of SpaceX too appear like he gives two fscks about "humanity's future".