Thanks Everyone I was seriously eyeing the system76 laptops, but I had not met anyone who has used them before. I did not realize that Ableton had to run through Wine (lack of research on my part)… that might be a deal-breaker for me :( I might have to go back to being Apple’s b*tch. I know this is a long shot for this group, but does anyone run Ableton Live through Wine (Ubuntu ideally) ?
On November 8, 2013 at 3:49:03 PM, Ron Toland ([email protected]) wrote: I've had good experiences with system76 laptops: https://www.system76.com/ They build them to work with Ubuntu, and back them up with solid support. If I were going to use Linux as my primary desktop, I'd definitely buy one of their machines. Ron On Friday, November 8, 2013 2:00:20 PM UTC-8, Benjamin Wanicur wrote: Hi Ruby Peeps I'm considering getting a new laptop, and although I had a great experience with my last macbook, I'm leaning towards buying something else and just running linux on it. The fact that everything is soldered to the logic/mother board on the new macbooks is a real deal-breaker. Also, I'm not sure I want to support Apple because of their business practices. I'd like to hear some suggestions / info about the following topics: Best resources for buying a customizable, quality OEM laptop. Especially if anyone knows of a manufacturer that is US-based. Any regrets / joy from anybody switching from OS X to Linux ? Any real problem with software running better in the OS X environment ? I am an Ableton Live user, and supposedly, it runs well on Linux. That is the only must-have software that I am really worried about. But I would still like to hear from people about anything else that is problematic. Thanks in advance for your feedback and sorry for the gear-related post. -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
