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One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

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Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

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Post by lmilcin »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #318
lmilcin wrote: post #37

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Mine has long history. I had to hack the BIOS to get LTE working because original BIOS does not support any LTE cards and have already disassembled it completely to the last part twice after I got it wet. Once with hot, sweet latte and once completely drenched with sparkling water. I had no tools to open the laptop and power button stopped working so it was not possible to go to bios and disconnect power (the interna…

I have a T440s and a T470. Right now I am using the T440s, because there was record rainfall in my city, and it is humid as hell, and the T470 crashed soon after starting - I think because of humidity. It was working just fine last night after which I had to open all the windows because I lost power. The T440s doesn't even care.

My next laptop is going to get couple upgrades from the very start. One I am planning is to put conformal coating on major components and that includes entire motherboard.

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

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Post by Jaepa »

tgv wrote: post #305
Jaepa wrote: post #129

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> - Can't do Linux development How do you figure that? Docker gives you a native linux runtime, and you can use x11 if you're developing GTK/QT clients.

To be fair, docker doesn't run well on macOS. I've got a few containers that are mostly idle on Linux, but take two cores on my mac.

The divide between doesn't work, and doesn't work as well is pretty wide.

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Post by IncRnd »

reaperducer wrote: post #325
alexktz wrote: post #61

I recently purchased a 16” MBP despite significant personal concerns over the future of MacOS, being a strong open source advocate and Linux paying my mortgage. I did this ultimately for a few reasons. MacOS lets me run Adobe (Photoshop, Lightroom, etc), Fusion360, has a good terminal (iTerm and zsh unix like shell) and Logic. Mac hardware is still some of the best in the business, no other vendors seem to be able to…

unix like macOS is certified Unix. Has been for over a decade.

That's not correct. Unix, the operating sytem family, is different from systems that are certified as UNIX (uppercase) 03-compliant. Macos is a UNIX 03-compliant operating system certified by The Open Group.

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

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Post by scns »

yaantc wrote: post #161
lmilcin wrote: post #3

I am also running Linux on Thinkpad (Debian unstable on T440s). As to the battery life, this typically requires some work but I found it is generally possible to get good battery life. I am able to get my T440s to run for total 24 hours with the highest option 9-cell, the built in 3-cell and another 3-cell that came original with the laptop. This I did to be able to work on a long yacht cruise with no extra power and…

Getting excellent battery life on Linux nowadays should be as simple as installing the "tlp" (the laptop project) package. I can't compare to a Mac, but I use both Thinkpad and Latitude and on both get better battery life on Debian than colleagues on Windows 10 (also and related: much less fan noise...). Now he complains about battery life after one year. There is a Thinkpad feature that helps a lot: one can limit th…

My Tuxedo allows setting max charge and other battery related settings via bios as well

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

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Post by jjtheblunt »

OriginalPenguin wrote: post #316
jjtheblunt wrote: post #281

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Or an aftermarket sticker is interfering with the wifi antenna?

Is that a real issue? A sticker is enough to impact a wifi antenna enough that people would notice?

I'm not sure about the impact being noticed. I thought the wifi antenna hid behind the Apple logo on some machines, but I don't remember which machines.

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

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Post by rv-de »

lmilcin wrote: post #3

I am also running Linux on Thinkpad (Debian unstable on T440s). As to the battery life, this typically requires some work but I found it is generally possible to get good battery life. I am able to get my T440s to run for total 24 hours with the highest option 9-cell, the built in 3-cell and another 3-cell that came original with the laptop. This I did to be able to work on a long yacht cruise with no extra power and…

My T480's touchpad has none of the issue you describe.

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

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Post by tupputuppu »

toastal wrote: post #72
alexktz wrote: post #61

I recently purchased a 16” MBP despite significant personal concerns over the future of MacOS, being a strong open source advocate and Linux paying my mortgage. I did this ultimately for a few reasons. MacOS lets me run Adobe (Photoshop, Lightroom, etc), Fusion360, has a good terminal (iTerm and zsh unix like shell) and Logic. Mac hardware is still some of the best in the business, no other vendors seem to be able to…

I'm not saying it's not possible, but if you're an open source advocate, why do you bother with Adobe and their subscriptions? As someone who dabbles in a lot of raster graphics on the side, after the learning curve of switth, I'm just as productive using GIMP, darktable, Hugin, Krita, and Inkscape.

Probably because they feel their time is too valuable for that learning curve, or because even by spending lots and lots of time on learning, you still can't match the productivity of somewhat usable software (please note that I hate Adobe as much as the next guy but they're lightyears ahead of Darktable or Gimp)

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Post by rbanffy »

aeyes wrote: post #101
diminish wrote: post #57

What are the cons of mac? for me: - Sluggish UI - Inadequate package manager - Unintuitive ways to install stuff - Slow and large updates - Can't do Linux development - Can't try server tools - Slow boot-to-work time - Hard to add memory and ram - Limited interfaces - Hacker unfriendly - Can't have a minimal desktop - High memory usage of base system

- machine marketed as "Pro" dies from a drop of water

OTOH, my wife's MBP was on the backseat of her car when another driver hit the back of her car at high speed, totalling both cars. Her car's trunk and backseat were compressed into about 70 cm.

The computer survived with one scratch to one of its corners.

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

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Post by rbanffy »

rkangel wrote: post #52
tluyben2 wrote: post #24

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X220 here; they are great. Battery life, performance (for what I do) etc are lovely almost 11 years after production.

A lot of modern software development is actually pretty light on computer power needs. Unfortunately I'm in the 'have compiled the Linux kernel 3 times today' camp for which that isn't true.

I do almost all my heavy lifting on a Lenovo tower under my desk. What it can't do, I use a cloud instance for.

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Post by wyclif »

matt-attack wrote: post #149
zdragnar wrote: post #102

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I am glad that you like your macbook, but your experience has been very different from mine. It has the worst WIFI radio in a laptop that i have used; one area of my house is basically off-limits to it despite every other Wi-Fi enabled device i own working there (phones and several laptop brands). The fancy metal case isnt properly grounded- I get occasionally a slight tingling /shock from it when I have it plugged i…

If you use the charger extension that had the third prong, I’ve found that tingling to go away.

Or if you plug the Apple power adapter into a power strip with a circuit breaker.
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