OP obviously didn't try i3. duck :)
I used dwm as my main desktop for many years when I was a developer :)
Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
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Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
#512From someone who tends to try this switch about once a year (because the lack of TLC the Mac was getting in the last 5 or so years was getting very very worrying - M1 feels like Apple actually care about the Mac again), I agree with a lot of these pain points. My biggest personal issues end up being (and these are super subjective!): - Preview on macOS is great and no other OS has anything remotely equivalent. First…
I use Preview a lot just for batch resizing, I use KDE as desktop on my home computer and while Gwenview seems to be on par, it just cannot do batch resizing...
Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
#513Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1 I find it absurd that (some) linux supporters find it not only ok but even a must, to have to tinker around your machine in order to make everything work. I could understand it in the 90s but this is a very different era we're in. I get zero value from having to tinker with my x-org settings to make the external screen work (sometimes). I'm using a computer to create value elsewhere and having to even think about…
> Haven't tried a laptop that comes with preinstalled linux TBH Seriously? Why do you think Linux should work perfectly on some random machine that you installed it on? MacOS sure as hell won’t. If you don’t like the experience of doing the work to find the right hardware, distro, and customizing the setup with your favourite software then just buy a prebuilt system with everything installed. Like others have pointed…
Ok, sure, many users prefer to fully customize their setup. But what about those who don't? Why isn't there a ready-to-go option like a Windows lapotop?
Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
#514This guy was not a developer, or at least that's not his main function. I have switched, and find it more productive, but I never have to use word....
Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
#515What a topsy-turvy article. Mail is fine if you use browser-based solutions. Nobody is talking about only sending plaintext emails? Wtf? Why are they running so much stuff on wine? Why are they upgrading their kernel every few weeks? How does anyone think nautilus is good? How does anyone think that Gimp/inkscape are better than affinity designer? These are the things they find useful about linux? There's so much mor…
What file browser do you use? I’m currently on Nautilus, and am not a fan.
Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
#516I agree with the article in that the Apple hardware is superior. The best laptops available for Linux are the Dell XPSs and they are not in the same league as the Mac (I have both). However, for developers, especially system software developers, Linux is a far better choice in terms of software. Everything is scriptable, tools and libraries are typically built first for Linux and then ported over, you get enormous customizability for your workflow. Its not even close.
Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
#517If you're complaining about Linux drivers please do so after using a Laptop that supports Linux (Thinkpads for example). Just like it wouldn't be fair to complain about macOS on a Hackintosh - sound didn't work well and had to patch the DSDT. > but there are rough edges for the power user. > I am an extreme power user, ... > In the end, I was able to replicate most of my macOS power tools setup via input hooks and sh…
Anyone who is a "extreme power user" is doomed to fail on any new platform. You should approach a new platform planning to learn and embrace what you find there, and become a new power user. Trying to port over the most "extreme power user" workflows you're used to on one system is inevitably going to fail. This was doomed from the start.
Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
#518Our code runs on Linux servers, our (business) customers all run Windows. I run a linux laptop as I don't want to introduce another stack into the mix.
Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
#519The author doesn't state whether they installed Linux on a laptop that shipped with Windows, or bought an actual "Linux laptop". There's a huge difference, like reviewing a Hackintosh and saying "Macs are shite". I did the same. I accidentally fubar'd my lovely 2015 Macbook by pouring a beer into it. I bought a Dell XPS and dual-booted Linux, which kinda worked but wasn't great. Then I bought a Purism 14, which has b…
I clarified now in the article that the "Linux Laptop" is a Dell XPS 13" Developer Edition, which is marketed indeed as a Linux laptop, and the Ubuntu is marketed as "Ubuntu Dell". It was stated in the previous article of the series but you are right that it was not evident in the text.
Does it actually ship with Linux installed though?
That, I think, is the main difference. I had an XPS 15" and I was totally unable to get any support from Dell when running Linux on it. I understand the XPS 13's are marketed as being more "Linux-friendly", but I don't know how supported they are.
Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
#520Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried to install AMD proprietary drivers? Did you installed the firmware for your WiFi card? By the way you complain about Linux seems that you really don't like it and that nobody can convince you te opposite, but I believe that if you manage to learn the basics around it it pay off in the long run :)
Missed this remark? > There is no way, because the only way to make it work is to dig out a pre-historic kernel from the same year Asus released 1215B with Linux support. My dear, my first UNIX experience was with Xenix back in 1993, I also used DG/UX, Tru64, HP-UX, Aix, Solaris, Slackware, Red-Hat, Yasdril, Mandranke, SuSE, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian, OS, Scientific Linux. Back in 2002 - 2003, I wrote cluster simulatio…
Sorry, I didn't though that would offend you.
I just think that those issues are relatively easy to fix and that you can still have the proprietary gpu modules to get OpenGL 4.1 back.
For the wifi to work well with the open module you could have installed the firmwares.
That's what I mean by basics, I didn't meant to put down your credentials :)
Sorry again for my poor writing