Has anyone installed Linux on this machine? If so, how has your experience been with respect to driver support, etc.? Thanks in advance.
I run xubuntu 16.04 on a third generation with 0 issues. Works great.
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Curious, why Vagrant and not Docker? Then you don't need to run a VM, but still get the same isolation.
> Curious, why Vagrant and not Docker? I have a Vagrant/Virtualbox workflow (on Windows host, so Docker not a great option yet) but curious: does Docker have shared folder support - via NFS or other? It's been the getting stuff into & out of the VM that's most painful IMO.
On Windows, if you are using Docker Toolbox, you can keep using VirtualBox. The corresponding driver of docker-machine will spin up the VM that runs the docker daemon, which, once it's running, you can control from the "outside". It uses shared folders support to map the user's home directory by default: https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/virtualbox/
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#443Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curious, why Vagrant and not Docker? Then you don't need to run a VM, but still get the same isolation.
I am guessing is that when he started working on this stuff docker was in it's infancy (still is IMHO), and had no reason/time to port it.
Or you could have glanced at the article and seen that your guess is wide off the mark.. ;-)
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You hinted at it in the end: MacBooks have good software that works. No troubles connecting to peripherals like printers and projectors. No worries about laptop sucking battery when I close the lid and forget to sleep. And MacBooks have the best touchpad of all laptops.
> MacBooks have good software that works I just spent my entire workday struggling to figure out why `kernal_task` was constantly using 16gb of RAM. Whenever people say macOS "just works" I assume they do nothing but web browse. It's great at that.
Man I feel like I'm attacking apple a lot recently but this is something else I saw on my MBA - various daemons (powerd, kernel_task, accountsd, and more I can't remember) spinning on 100% cpu usage leaving the laptop unusable.
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#445I was assigned one of these (the 2015 model) as my office laptop, and I hate the thing for five reasons (two dealbreakers on top): - It is huge and unwieldy, like a cafeteria tray (and comes with a sizable power brick) - The touchscreen doesn't have an oleophobic coating, so it becomes a smudgy mess within hours (unlike my iPad, which looks pristine for weeks despite being even more heavily used) - The screen seems d…
I bought the 2016 version to replace my Samsung NP900X3C and returned it because:
- The lid was wobbly.
- It's big, thick and just looks mediocre to me. Display rim is too big.
- The coating is susceptible to smudges / fingerprints. Why are they even making those in 2016? Unacceptable.
- Display was way too dim.
- Colors were yellowish but that's probably fixable.
All 5 points are relative to the (few years older) Samsung. It's a shame they don't care much about laptops anymore. I mean, it's 8+ years old and it's hard to find a replacement (which I'm looking for because it has 4 GB of RAM).
I don't know if my requirenments are so unique or if there's a big mismatch between market demand and supply. Which would seem odd to be honest because laptops is a mature and competetive market.
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#447I want to be excited by a good non-Apple laptop. But they're all just so terribly designed. They're always some sort of plastic, feel flimsy and bendy, have grills and screw holes and uneven surfaces and stickers everywhere. I had a T530 for a few years at my first job and just hated it. It had fantastic specs but it felt awful and unreliable and like I had to babysit it. I got a 2015 MBP to replace it after IT damag…
> They're always some sort of plastic, feel flimsy and bendy The Carbon X1 is made from carbon fiber. It super-robust and light-weight at the same time. It feels light years ahead of the super-heavy aluminium-nonsense Apple is trying to peddle. Count me happy my laptop doesn't double as a bench-press.
I am typing on one right now.
The light weight actually makes it feel flimsy / cheap at first, but having used it for the best part of a year, I realize there is a stiffness to it that you don't get with cheap plastic.
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When we got accepted into YCombinator back in 2011 (Mailgun), I remember PG looking at our Thinkpads running Linux and asking something along the lines of "what's wrong with you?" , with almost [1] all YC teams using Macbooks. I wonder if it's the Valley culture? There is no way a Macbook can compete with a proper Thinkpad [2] for programmer productivity: the keyboard, the UltraNav, the swappable batteries (you can f…
You hinted at it in the end: MacBooks have good software that works. No troubles connecting to peripherals like printers and projectors. No worries about laptop sucking battery when I close the lid and forget to sleep. And MacBooks have the best touchpad of all laptops.
> No troubles connecting to peripherals like printers and projectors.
Well, except for all those dongles you need to drag around with you.
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When we got accepted into YCombinator back in 2011 (Mailgun), I remember PG looking at our Thinkpads running Linux and asking something along the lines of "what's wrong with you?" , with almost [1] all YC teams using Macbooks. I wonder if it's the Valley culture? There is no way a Macbook can compete with a proper Thinkpad [2] for programmer productivity: the keyboard, the UltraNav, the swappable batteries (you can f…
I've got similar experience, but at my new employer. When I got an offer I had to choose which laptop (MacBook Pro or ThinkPad W, the recruited insisted on Mac), I chose Thinkpad because I'm a Linux person. Right now I'm the only programmer in my department that has a Thinkpad (and the only one that has Linux on a Thinkpad). Which is a strange thing for me, I always thought that Macs are more for designers or enduser…
We have all the developers using Linux, and it-ops and product management using MacOS.
For myself, instead of a laptop I ask for a custom workstation. For the same price, I get four fast cores, lots of RAM, lots of ports, huge monitors and lots of (fast) disk. I have a good sound setup there and developers usually don't do meetings or when we do it's whiteboard only and quick. I think it's very satisfying to use a minimal xmonad setup with a proper workstation, then running cmake and seeing your CPU and RAM is used in stuff that actually matters.
If I need to do home office, I use my own laptop. But I prefer to be in the office, otherwise some of my time goes to the cats, who want attention the whole day. :3
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13 hours with the extra goiter-battery? Doing what?
I have an X1 (Yoga). Tiny almost weightless (feels lighter than current-gen Macbook Air) laptop, and it runs between 10 to 11 hours on the battery when doing normal work (programming, mail, web, spreadsheets etc..) on wifi with pleasant screen brightness ... Linux power management is fine today on modern hardware... (Powertop reports 5.2-5.5 watts)
Is there anything you need to do / configure, as I am not getting that sort of battery out of my X1 Carbon running Mint. (I realize I usually leave bluetooth on, and the screen at mid to high brightness and have about 20-30 tabs open in firefox but I would still be lucky to get 5 hours out of it.)