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I have only used Linux for the last 12 years. I use a thinkpad in an office full of macs and HP printers and 5ghz networks.

None of it works as seamlessly as on a Mac. I'm pretty comfortable compiling my custom kernels, so I'm more than the average Joe trying to setup networking.

There is still a reason why every Linux install asks you to explicitly select that you want mp3 codecs insralled. Flash is not installed by default. I don't know what the legal reasons are, but I'm willing to pay my share to not having to deal with it.



"There is still a reason why every Linux install asks you to explicitly select that you want mp3 codecs insralled." Ubuntu is the only installer I know of that does this...


Mint does to, IIRC.


They use the same (or an extremely similar) installer last I checked.




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