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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I cant help but kinda be like this with my macbook. I work at a desk on my computer for the majority of the day. Because of this I tend to keep my desk clean. Even so, I have a special mouse pad that I use only to put my laptop on top of to protect him. I did more or less the same babying to my last laptop until I got rid of it. That one was an HP (fucking shit ass company for real)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I made the wrong comment to a wrong reply, but i think Thinkpads are great. Except the premium thinkpads have Apple-esque prices but non of the Apple-esque support.

If there was a thinkpad with a good price (especially the newer thinkpads that have soldered RAM) I would buy it and replace my laptop. Not that I don't like my laptop (Its a Clevo, so I know what I'm getting), but ThinPads are pretty good and all rounded for many things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I honestly will never understand why people buy macbooks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Great battery life on macOS, although turns out a lot of it involves software-related optimizations since with Asahi Linux it's barely better than x86

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It's UNIX with a million and one creature comforts and high build quality. The ThinkPad touchpad gives me a rash.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Disclaimer: Macbook user here.

Its okay for a lot of things. And its great for people who don't expect much. But for power users, the moment you start installing stuffs for QoL or for more functionality, its there and then (the lack of RAM) really makes one want to bite the fingernails. I'm running 24GB, but even then my memory pressure is on yellow and i've "offloaded" a lot of stuffs into Ferdium (as that was the only reasonable way of maintaining certain things).

But for those who use on the web stuffs for almost everything, a macbook is a much better chromebook, and it works really well for those who don't want to fiddle with anything.

But that price though. If Macbooks were priced lower (especially the RAM and storage upgrades) I think there will be a huge uptick of people buying the M-CPU Macbooks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Agreed. I got the 16/512 (max specs) M1 Air for a decent price for the performance and battery life, and I currently run Linux on it, but I'm constantly bottlenecking both the RAM and SSD and it sucks that I can't upgrade it, will probably get a Framework when it dies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What Linux do you run and is it great? Now you are making me think I should plonk more money into a macbook once this macbook is too old and run both Mac OS and Linux.

Framework is a great hardware. I like their vision.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Fedora Asahi Remix. Considering how the M1 has no official Linux support, it's impressive that it runs as well as it does, and they have compatibility hacks to run Steam games and get Widevine to work. There's still a lot of rough edges however, like no microphone (should be coming out soon though) or fingerprint, aarch64 software support is second class and tends to have more frequent bugs (cough Electron cough) that get ignored by package maintainers and some (even FOSS) software isn't supported, I don't think high refresh rate is supported yet, full disk encryption isn't supported (but there's blog articles from people who figured out how to set it up), limited distro options, worse power efficiency so gets hot faster (just got a cooling pad to deal with this, get a Pro if you can so you have a fan) and battery life is barely different than what I've heard from Framework users so there's not really much to gain atm. Currently only supports M1 and to a lesser extent M2, and also the fact that you're dual booting makes the soldered overpriced SSD space even more limiting.

As far as distro support goes, Fedora Workstation is the only distro that has official support. There's other options with community support but there's a higher likelihood of stuff being outdated or not packaged (i.e. Arch Linux ARM doesn't have the same level of community support as normal Arch Linux). I haven't tried NixOS or Guix System on M1, but I use Nix/Guix on the Fedora install. aarch64 Guix packages keep breaking making it annoying to update and issues tend to be ignored (also certain core packages don't like the tmpfs 16k page size so you need to make it use /var/tmp instead), aarch64 Nix is a lot better but support is still slow to where Signal is several versions behind and has been broken for weeks despite there being multiple pull requests with fixes, and both Nix/Guix prioritize x86 over aarch64 for builds so it will need to compile a lot of things from source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Huh. Thanks. Once this macbook of mine goes old enough I will then try this for funsies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You must not have any tech illiterate old family that likes downloading sketchy stuff from the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Audio editing tools. I love linux but... its still catching up

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Out here in Silicon Valley, the big driver is a) you need MacOS to develop for iOS, and b) people prefer the UX over Windows / Linux.

Also, the hardware tends be well supported and performant for many years…. As long as you’re not gaming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I work at a big tech company in Silicon Valley and maybe 80% of employees use MacBooks... I was using Windows for a while, but I switched to Linux around a year ago. AFAIK there were only a few dozen people like me (running Linux, using Firefox as default browser) until we were all forced to switch to Chrome because of some security features in Chrome enterprise.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Number of reasons. Works well with Apple products, long battery life, way more powerful for most normal (sometimes applies to even some basic UI devs and small project video editing). It’s got great hardware. However Apple is a nightmare capitalist company that’ll try to dime and nickel you for every possible thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Honestly, I’d love a cost equivalent laptop in could put Linux on in Europe, but for the money the MacBook Air is just really hard to beat

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unified memory. On a current gen Mac work station you can functionally have 512GB of VRAM for AI tasks for under $10k. Good luck getting anywhere close with Nvidia or AMD.

They're also idiot proof, when I fuck up my CUDA drivers sending me down a 4-hour-long hunt for improperly installed visual studio files, a part of me is envious of Mac owners who will never know my pain.

People pay for the simplicity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

They’re also idiot proof

Real reason right here. They want a machine that essentially protects them from themselves. It's also why Chromebooks are so wildly popular in US schools; the kids can't fuck up the software.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I get the hate that goes Lenovo's way but I've had a 2022 P1 Gen5 since launch and I've absolutely kicked the living shit out of it and it keeps keeping on. Don't regret it.

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