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The only thing that is stopping me to jump to a linux laptop is battery life. MacOs is just optimised to a crazy extent. Nothing really comes close to the same battery performance if you don't want to get your hands dirty with tlp.
There was an interesting thread on Reddit [1] the other day which did a breakdown of the state of gaming in terms of native games and games that can be run easily via Steam Play (aka 'Proton', Valve's in-built WINE+DXVK layer). The results were quite interesting and, as one of the replies pointed out in another breakdown, Linux now competes with (and in some ways beats) gaming on macOS in terms of size of catalogue.…
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even with snaps or whatever that thing ubuntu has?
Not everyone is on Ubuntu. I currently have eight VMs each with different distros. Mostly it's for testing library compatability on install and input weirdness. That's a lot of testing.
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Lack of OpenGL and Vulkan support never mattered on game consoles. Even with Switch's adoption of Vulkan, most games are actually using middleware that makes use of NVN. If a platform is relevant to professional games developers, they will target it, regardless of which APIs and OS it requires.
Consoles give very strict contracts that you can rely on to not change for the whole lifetime of the console. In contrary macOS changes stuff every year apparently based on what a fortune teller says for Steve Job's ghost. That means that early on, yeah it's as bad as Mac, but it gets way better over the lifetime of the console.
If you don't have specific Windows apps, I'd be tempted to try a Chromebook these days. Around 2 years ago I got a cheap Chromebook and it was terrible. I think it was $250. Fit and finish and keyboard kind of sucked. I found one of those HP Chromebook 13 g1 boxes, which Woot had refurb for half off at just under $500, and it is much closer to the hardware experience I'm used to with Thinkpads, for 1/6th the price. N…
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Chromebooks sound amazing except I don't want to be locked into Google or give them more of my data...
Personally I choose Debian, but if the alternative is getting locked into Microsoft and giving them more of my data, then I choose Google.
I freakin' love Linux as a personal workstation OS. I got into it in 1995, back in the days when Linux was punk rawk and you had to dig around on tsx-11 and sunsite to find things to run on it. I still dual-booted Windows there for a few years. Then I noticed something: Windows would, suddenly and without warning, stop working. As in, blue screen on first boot. All the way up through Windows 2000 -- 9x, NT, didn't ma…
Why not try a BSD, then?
If you don't have specific Windows apps, I'd be tempted to try a Chromebook these days. Around 2 years ago I got a cheap Chromebook and it was terrible. I think it was $250. Fit and finish and keyboard kind of sucked. I found one of those HP Chromebook 13 g1 boxes, which Woot had refurb for half off at just under $500, and it is much closer to the hardware experience I'm used to with Thinkpads, for 1/6th the price. N…
My chromebook sits on the shelf, unused. None of the apps really work properly. It's been a big disappointment. I recently dusted it off and had the apps update. They worked worse than last time. YMMV.
I haven't touched Windows or used anything by Microsoft since 2010, save for trying some games that my friends played. These days, if there's a Windows-exclusive game I like, I try to run it in CrossOver/Wine or Parallels/VMWare, or forget about it. Windows machines are synonymous with games consoles for me now, and between my Nintendo Switch, 3DS, and Mac ports, I feel I'm well-catered for with regards to games.
I also don't use Google for anything except their search and YouTube, and I was already using the latter before Google gobbled it. iCloud serves my email needs just fine. I also try to block as much of Google's cross-site tracking services on my computers as I can, like Analytics.
If you're horrified or disgusted by the idea of someone sticking solely with Apple for so long, consider that you and I only prove the point that it IS certainly possible to avoid one or more of the 3 major computing companies entirely. Once you're used to the alternatives to those, you may never even miss them.
The only issue I face with Linux on my Dell XPS 13 is the sub-par touchpad experience. If I use Ubuntu with XOrg, I don't have features like touch rejection while typing etc. If I use Ubuntu with Wayland, my cursor is all over the place.