Don Marti
Wed 10 Jul 2013 06:48:58 AM PDT
QoTD: Avdi Grimm
No, [Linux] doesn’t have an official reference platform,
not even whatever PC Linus happens to be using these
days. But for developer workstations, there’s a
de-facto reference platform, and it’s called a
ThinkPad. If you’ve been using Linux for any length of
time you know that if you want a linux desktop machine
to Just Work, you buy a ThinkPad. There is a
self-reinforcing cycle that perpetuates this
phenomenon. Linux developers tend to use ThinkPads, so
they tend to make sure that the hardware is well
supported, so Linux developers tend to buy more
ThinkPads, and so on. I don’t know where it started,
but that’s how it works.