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Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by neop1x »

eikenberry wrote: post #269
gorgoiler wrote: post #99

This is going to sound dumb or elitist but I am so much happier working since I ditched portable computing. I have a desk at home in an office. I have the same setup at work. I don’t carry my dev environment with me. When I need to work I go to the ’do work stuff’ place. Nice keyboard. Nice mouse. And a nice OS that, yes, took a whole day to configure but over which I have total control. (Full-screen focus-mode no-or…

Why either/or.. with laptops you can have both the desktop experience and the portable experience. I have a laptop that I primarily use as a desktop. I like it that way best, but I like the option to take it with me. For when I travel or just times I want to sit out in the family room.

Having your battery charged near 100% all days long with charger plugged in will soon degrade the battery and you may be surprised by your battery time.

Also some people prefer buying gaming laptops for better performance. The problem often is insufficient cooling, fans too noisy and ridiculously low battery time (obviously) from already-big and heavy battery pack.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by jason0597 »

bsaul wrote: post #75
driverdan wrote: post #44

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> That future looks extremely scary. What can we do, now, as developers ? Stop buying, using, and supporting the Apple ecosystem. Vote with your money. The new chips are faster. So what? The laptop you have today works fine, you don't need the latest and greatest hardware.

i code iOS (native) app for a living. I'm already stuck developing for the app store, using xcode to sign and deploy, using a programming language (that i love) swift that only really works on mac OS. My personal situation isn't going to change anytime soon unfortunately. I was about to dump my iphone next time i had to pick one (and keep my current one for testing), however my laptop is my work computer. I think "st…

>We don't want to work on crap hardware, with a crap OS because that would make us unhappy and unproductive (or in my case, would simply not be an option at all).

You consider a Thinkpad with Linux installed and configured properly as "crap hardware, with a crap OS"? Really?

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by neop1x »

toyg wrote: post #448
gorgoiler wrote: post #99

This is going to sound dumb or elitist but I am so much happier working since I ditched portable computing. I have a desk at home in an office. I have the same setup at work. I don’t carry my dev environment with me. When I need to work I go to the ’do work stuff’ place. Nice keyboard. Nice mouse. And a nice OS that, yes, took a whole day to configure but over which I have total control. (Full-screen focus-mode no-or…

I’m tempted by a desktop but I worry about noise. Typically power components == big cooling reqs == big fans == big noise. There are specialized vendors who guarantee quiet but obviously they cost more.

I installed liquid cooling + big fans which often don't rotate fast (depending on the load).

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by jason0597 »

tomwojcik wrote: post #30
anderspitman wrote: post #12

I got into Linux when I was younger because I thought it was cool, and I had plenty of time to fix it when things broke. It's been my daily driver for ~10 years now. But there's quite a bit too learn. If I were to try and switch from Windows or Mac today I'm not sure I'd succeed before giving up. But I'm grateful every day to have a machine that I have some semblance of control over. I use a rolling release distro. I…

> I use a rolling release distro This might be the first time someone could have said 'I use Arch' but decided not to.

Could be Windows 10.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by cpursley »

kcartlidge wrote: post #494
cpursley wrote: post #272

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Thanks for bringing this up. Can folk's recommend specific thinkpads that play well with linux? I'm specifically interested in Ryzen versions.

I've got a Thinkpad L14 with Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U, 16GB, Radeon. I had Mint 20 running on it briefly. Everything (that I tried) worked perfectly, except that the trackpad was jumpy. Eventually got fed up with the imprecision and put Win10 back on it (I still run Mint on a Yoga S730 and have Ubuntu under WSL2 on the L14). I'm sure I'll try again at some point as it is probably a simple fix; I just couldn't spare the time…

How is linux running on the Yoga S730?

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by skohan »

hackerfromthefu wrote: post #509
bird_monster wrote: post #341

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The last try, I installed Ubuntu on my desktop and checked the 'Auto Login on Start' box on setup, which broke the UI and required a CLI fix. It wasn't hard (because I'm a dev and it was easy to troubleshoot/fix), but it was more than 0 effort and a person that wasn't a dev might not be able to do it. Prior to that, I had an issue with bluetooth drivers that, IIRC, required finding a custom driver online or some C so…

Seconded your experience. Death by a thousand paper drew a visceral response from me, it describes my experience perfectly. I'm a developer and power user that wants to do various things beyond just browsing. Things regularly required troubleshooting and fiddling, and for one thing that is fine, but after the 5th serious time consuming issue I get cross and around the 10th I can the migration attempt and go back to w…

As a developer really? Which kinds of issues for example? I feel like Linux is the default platform for software development, and Windows is a 3rd class experience by comparison.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by eikenberry »

neop1x wrote: post #511
eikenberry wrote: post #269

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Why either/or.. with laptops you can have both the desktop experience and the portable experience. I have a laptop that I primarily use as a desktop. I like it that way best, but I like the option to take it with me. For when I travel or just times I want to sit out in the family room.

Having your battery charged near 100% all days long with charger plugged in will soon degrade the battery and you may be surprised by your battery time. Also some people prefer buying gaming laptops for better performance. The problem often is insufficient cooling, fans too noisy and ridiculously low battery time (obviously) from already-big and heavy battery pack.

> Having your battery charged near 100% all days long with charger plugged...

This is configurable on many laptops. I keep my laptop around 75% charged unless I'm traveling for this very reason.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by miluoshi »

jasonv wrote: post #253
glogla wrote: post #180

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The benefit of laptop is that it's ... everything. It's a replacement for desktop, for TV in living room, for TV in bedroom, for something to look up stuff in kitchen or workshop, and you can take it when you travel, use it in a hotel room or in a train or plane ... It's not perfect and perhaps not good replacement for many of those things, but it is so practical. Especially if you live in a small apartment where des…

I've been rockng a Macbook Air since 2013. I love the thing and it works fine, but I can't do video editing, which I need to do. The new Macbooks were on the horizon, but I figured I'd wait for v2 of whatever came out. So I bought a Dell gaming machine, for the GPU. First impressions from the week: * Windows is still pretty kludgy. * There are no good Gmail cients for Windows (settled on eM, but it crashes a lot, on…

> There are no good Gmail cients for Windows

I use Mailspring (has both MacOS and Windows version).

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