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"Chromebook OS" *is* Linux.

HTH

Uh, Amiga anyone? Can't say as I use it now, but you bet we looked down on Macs back in the day. I do run an old netbook with Haiku, a re-implementation of BeOS from the '90s, which is a great OS if you don't need to run any particular software applications.

The outfits who make the wifi cards just furnish Microsoft with a driver and call it a day, I suppose it may never even occur to them that anyone runs anything else. I had to swap out the wifi card, in my ASUS netbook. The same model comes with various wifi cards, whatever was in the bin at the assembly line when they were putting it together. The Atheros version I got is one of them, and works fine with Haiku. This thing doesn't easily come apart and go back together, though. The funny thing is that one of the parts that were damaged in the process was the caps lock key - which I'd happily tear off on purpose, anyway.

nworbekim wrote:For my work as a musician, both come up short in applications I use for scoring

Have you given Lilypond a try? I haven't done a lot with it, but it seems like the kind of old school computer software where it's worth the trouble to read up, and the things you can do with that knowledge might in some ways exceed the capabilities of the usual stuff like Encore or whatever people are using on Microslop. I did encounter some frustrations. For example, apparently no MIDI playback for drum roll, so I had to code a separate for-MIDI-only written out drum roll.

Other surprises were somewhat educational. For example, when a piece begins with a repeated section, the beginning repeat bar is omitted. OK, I have seen music written like that - and I have seen half the band taken a little by surprise, because it's rare (if only because pieces rarely begin with a repeated section) and, well, it's stupid, there's no good reason why that begin repeat bar should be omitted. I didn't realize it was the law, but apparently it is, as far as the authors of Lilypond are concerned - there's a way to put it in, of course, but not as a normal option, one must apparently resort to some lower level internal esoterica.