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ARM64 Linux Workstation
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#382We need more devs to use linux. It is a better experience IMHO. I've been donating to the asahi project every month hoping apple hardware gets finally liberated.
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#383I cannot wait for Linux to be fully usable on my Apple Silicon MBP. That is going to be such a killer environment to develop on. Crazy fast hardware, great high refresh screen, insane battery life, fantastic touchpad, gestures and keyboard. There is the potential that Windows games could run on it with some combination of x86 translation and Proton. Using MacOS on it feels like I have a ferrari with square wheels. Wa…
I seem to be in the minority, but I honestly don't get how people can develop productively on a laptop. The lack of full size keyboard, screen real estate, and uncomfortable touchpad compared to a mouse just feels horrible to me.
You can use a dock station and have the best of both worlds: mobility and high quality peripherals and mobility is not needed.
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#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
The permutations don't really matter. If one machine has Broadcom wireless and Intel graphics and another has Qualcomm wireless and AMD graphics and they're both supported and then you come across one that has Broadcom wireless and AMD graphics, you already have the drivers for it. The real trouble is that you get some wireless chip which isn't popular enough for anybody to reverse engineer it but the manufacturer di…
But power management is still ussually subpar(compared to Windows) even on the well supported ones.
I run a T14s with nixos. For me battery is never ever a problem, sure it runs out if I fall asleep and YouTube is autoplaying. But it lasts almost an entire workday in the couch, it's usbc powered so I can charge it a bit with my powerbank.
Just clearing some FUD if people consider Linux bad for everyday use, that's mostly shit if you run Wayland and like sharing your screen (Jitsi or obs+virtualcam works well too).
Edit: remember Android runs on the Linux kernel-ish
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#385Is anything interesting happening for non-Apple desktop/laptop Arm?
At the moment building for aarch64 pretty much means embedded, Mac users on the team, or Graviton/other Arm servers.
Are we going to reach a point where there's a meaningful mix of architectures, but it doesn't point to the brand of device? Of course Apple will continue with only one thing, but that Lenovo might have options from Arm licensees as well as Intel/AMD?
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#386Is anything interesting happening for non-Apple desktop/laptop Arm? At the moment building for aarch64 pretty much means embedded, Mac users on the team, or Graviton/other Arm servers. Are we going to reach a point where there's a meaningful mix of architectures, but it doesn't point to the brand of device? Of course Apple will continue with only one thing, but that Lenovo might have options from Arm licensees as wel…
I use a thinkpad x13s and i’m happy with it
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#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m paid to develop apps which deploy on Linux containers. macOS is uniquely incapable of providing a good development experience for that use case. Even Windows with WSL2 is leaps and bounds ahead.
Then don't buy a Mac, that simple. WSL 2 is a Hyper V VM for running Linux distributions, while WSL emulated Linux syscalls. Surely some of that salary can be used to make OEMs selling Linux hardware happy, instead of buying Apple and then complaining macOS isn't yet another Linux distribution. If you want WSL like experience on Mac, VMWare is happy to provide it to you. It is like complaining using Playstation SDK i…
> Then don't buy a Mac, that simple.
If only. It was not my choice to make, it was my employer’s.
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#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Once upon a time I tried to make CTF with M2 Pro” Wasn’t the M2 Pro released like a month ago? Am I that old that a few weeks now counts as once upon a time?
World changes fast these days! But yeah, it was like week after the release I took that laptop to CTF.
I don't mean to cast aspersions, but that sounds a lot like something a time traveller would say if they'd been rumbled.
I'm just saying.
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#389I cannot wait for Linux to be fully usable on my Apple Silicon MBP. That is going to be such a killer environment to develop on. Crazy fast hardware, great high refresh screen, insane battery life, fantastic touchpad, gestures and keyboard. There is the potential that Windows games could run on it with some combination of x86 translation and Proton. Using MacOS on it feels like I have a ferrari with square wheels. Wa…
> Want to use FUSE? Not on your work computer locked to high-sec mode as you cannot install kernel extensions (where is our user space FS Apple?). It exists already - https://threedots.ovh/blog/2022/06/quick-look-at-user-mode-f... - it is just that Apple hasn’t made the API public, and (AFAIK) won’t give you the entitlements necessary to use it. But, both are issues Apple could fix relatively easily - if they wanted…
There’s a new FUSE implementation that uses this technique: https://github.com/macos-fuse-t/fuse-t
Worked without problems for sshfs when I tested it briefly.
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#390I don't get the hype around apple silicon for desktop computers. I sort of understand the power efficiency argument for laptops (although it is often overstated IMO, I could work for >10h straight with my X1 carbon 6 years ago), but for Desktop it is trivial to build a PC that runs significantly faster, with much more upgradability and flexibility for a fraction of the price. So if I want performance on a Linux syste…
>for Desktop it is trivial to build a PC that runs significantly faster for a fraction of the price.
Is it though?