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To me, Macbooks have the worst trackpad 'feel' so hopefully it's nothing like that.
Wow! That's actually the first time I've ever heard this opinion
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Can you do NixOS without systemd? If not, I'd look elsewhere for the distro. Maybe Guix?
Just take the time to learn systemd. Once you do, like nix, it saves so much time
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I suppose one can certainly adapt to mostly any sort of input device given enough time, but that does not mean that they're done well. Most people that have used trackpads in windows/linux land prior to the last 8 years or so could easily tell you how horrendous they were (and some still are). A lot of this comes down to software, of course. Microsoft's precision touchpad drivers were a game changer for Windows devic…
You're speaking for an awful lot of people. Maybe HN skews towards Apple fans and therefore might just possibly have a few extra upvotes for Apples defaults?
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systemd is so complex, I've come to a conclusion, that it no longer fits my definition of free software. We allow runaway complexity to obscure the inner workings of an important software package, to the point, where having source access no longer makes a practical difference to a "casual" power-user or even a software engineer. I can source-dive runit, s6, OpenBSD's rc, or OpenRC and within a weekend, have a pretty…
That's an interesting line to draw! Do you think this also extends to stuff like firefox or java vm, or are you only focusing on "system" software with that analysis?
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Wow! That's actually the first time I've ever heard this opinion
Yeah, not a lot of marketing money behind not liking Apple things, or anyone's things, for that matter.
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Can you do NixOS without systemd? If not, I'd look elsewhere for the distro. Maybe Guix?
What would you prefer to have in Nix instead of systemd?
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You're speaking for an awful lot of people. Maybe HN skews towards Apple fans and therefore might just possibly have a few extra upvotes for Apples defaults?
There's not been a study on it as far as I know (maybe there's some polls online, though?), if that's what you're hoping for. Obviously it's going to be largely anecdotal but it's not exactly just Apple bias. It's notable because the remarks about the trackpad often come from non-mac users who painfully concede that the trackpad experience on MacOS is better. One example I can think of is Linus from Linus Tech Tips a…
https://bill.harding.blog/2020/04/26/linux-touchpad-like-a-m...
https://bill.harding.blog/2019/03/25/linux-touchpad-like-a-m...
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Yeah, not a lot of marketing money behind not liking Apple things, or anyone's things, for that matter.
Just accept that others have a different opinion to you. No need to come up with some conspiracy about why we're not a homogenous blob.
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You're speaking for an awful lot of people. Maybe HN skews towards Apple fans and therefore might just possibly have a few extra upvotes for Apples defaults?
There's not been a study on it as far as I know (maybe there's some polls online, though?), if that's what you're hoping for. Obviously it's going to be largely anecdotal but it's not exactly just Apple bias. It's notable because the remarks about the trackpad often come from non-mac users who painfully concede that the trackpad experience on MacOS is better. One example I can think of is Linus from Linus Tech Tips a…
> Mozilla requires LUKS full-disk encryption, and having it setup conflicted with NVidia’s proprietary driver I’ve seen this warning in the Ubuntu docs. Can someone explain exactly why a GPU driver would cause issues with disk encryption and UEFI boot?
I conjecture the securely booted kernel won't load unsigned modules, and out-of-tree drivers don't get signed when the kernel and its modules do.