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Author: Brad Campbell
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Purchasing a new computer/laptop
On 28/01/16 11:15, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 10:05:08 +0800, Brad wrote in message
> <56A97754.7050401@???>:
>
>> I'm running an early 2015 Macbook Pro. I have OSX, Windows 7 & Linux
>> installed. I live in Linux, but on the rare occassions I need to boot
>> into OSX or Win 7 I simply s2disk. That way when I re-boot into linux
>> it just wakes up where it was rather than losing any context.
>>
>> Aside from the non-functioning camera, the only other hardware issue
>> I routinely see is the USB SD reader mostly disappears off the bus
>> after a system sleep.
>
> ..doesn't your early 2015 Macbook have enough opmh to run all
> these OS'es off e.g. https://www.qubes-os.org/ (aside from
> their systemd issue)?


Yeah it does, but occasionally when doing things like firmware updates
to peripherals it's just a shitload easier to run the native OS on the
bare metal rather than fart around with USB re-direction and hardware
passthrough. For those reasons, I keep a windows and OSX install on the
bare metal.

Sure, I *can* do it in Linux via a VM, but I'm old enough now to not
want to do time consuming shit like that just because I can. Time is
money. Suspend linux, boot windows, update device, resume Linux.. job done.

I've snipped the remainder of your reply because personally I could not
make head nor tail of what you were on about and it looked like a
steaming pile of misdirected political ....