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Linux On The Laptop Works So Damn Well That It's Boring

Which is good! Boring = success

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A few days ago I took my Macbook Pro into the shop. It needed a new
battery; the current one is five years old and dies after an hour.
We'll be in touch by next Tuesday, the repair shop said.

So in the meantime, I started working on my backup laptop -- which
runs Linux. It's an 11-year-old...

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Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, "Coders". @pomeranian on Twitter,
clive@clivethompson.net

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