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The look at his old desktop hit hard ( https://brainbaking.com/post/2020/11/desktop-screenshots-of-... ). I recently switched back to Ubuntu, but I was using Regolith with a similar look for a while and I loved it. Unfortunately, having a tiling WM when most apps don't expect it mean you run into all sorts of corner cases that the app developer didn't think of. No hope of resolution either.
I suspect my next laptop will be a Framework, and although I wish they came with touchscreens, that is a blessing in disguise because it means I don't have to worry about touch support in a DE and can play with more BSDs or esoteric Linuxes. I have been tempted by the MacBooks, especially when on sale, but the closed nature and lack of repairability keeps me in check each time.
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These days, Windows is trying to solve the dev I/O scenario by having a separate "developer optimized" partition: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/
Thanks for the link. What an amusing band-aid. It's weird that they're mixing ReFS into it, as NTFS is not at all the problem. It feels like they're either using this as a random opportunity to air ReFS again, or as a decoy to make it sound like the dev partition is a fancy special filesystem optimization, rather than the more likely reality of it being duct tape on their weird VFS layer, likely doing away with stuff…
It does seem like this is some sort of "trojan horse" (but not in a bad way) play for ReFS. But I'm not sure it is for sinister reasons: Encouraging Developers to use ReFS for their main development partition is a good way to encourage lots of free app compatibility testing on top of ReFS and suss out the minor bugs in applications that assume all Windows runs solely on NTFS. It seems like a play to increase reliance on the VFS layer and its abstractions and further get away from code assuming NTFS specifics.
The title for this blog post should be "I Miss BSD/Linux for Apple devices". Unsurprisingly, if you buy hardware from one of the most FLOSS hostile hardware manufacturers in existence, your BSD/Linux experience will not be great. > Why doesn’t a great MacBook alternative exist? I really don't understand this question. Is the author seriously suggesting that MacBooks are objectively the best laptops for any use case a…
I think Dell has would have a chance to be great but they do lots of plasticky and heavy stuff.
After running Linux (plain, crappy boring Ubuntu) as my daily driver for the last few years, I'm convinced that we're at the point where the only real barrier to wider adoption is software, and this is less and less of an issue the more we work in the browser. For your basic user, it's performant, simple, stable, and does everything a computer needs. Every time I boot up Windows it takes forever, I find that a new up…
Hence the existence of Chrome OS.
Which is useless besides browsing the internet.
> Why doesn’t a great MacBook alternative exist? I really don't get this either. Every laptop I've looked at has some wart somewhere - battery life, webcam, structural integrity, display, CPU, temperatures, speakers, IO, repairability (not that Macbooks are good here either). Some of these things aren't even hard to get right. It's like laptop manufacturers just don't care.
Get a Framework AMD laptop and install PopOS... tada, Mac aesthetics (mostly) under Linux with good hardware upgradability.
Sure, macbooks look good, but it's not the looks that make them great laptops.
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Get a Framework AMD laptop and install PopOS... tada, Mac aesthetics (mostly) under Linux with good hardware upgradability.
I understand why people like the Framework laptop, but this is like comparing the space shuttle to the pickup truck Lamont used to drive in Sanford and Sons. It doesn't compare favorably to a Macbook.
Most of the tools I use in Mac are cross platform and otherwise available in Linux. Many aren't completely UI/UX integrated even (VS Code, Brave Browser, etc). Many others are command line tools that are the same or easier with Linux.
What is it that you think a Macbook has that would be effectively lacking?
thinkpads are still a pretty good bet for linux- although battery life is still lacking compared to aarch64 machines. the upcoming snapdragon elite t14s looks pretty promising on all fronts!
A few of the systems require a minor change in grub for the touchpad to work right. A few others require a USB to ethernet dongle to get wifi working.
daily driver has been a T, P or X series thinkpad running linux since ~2005/6.
although, fair notice, kde 6 is hot off the presses and it will take some time to reach kde 5 levels of stability.
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Windows host, because I play VR games and GPU passthrough would be inconvenient. I just fullscreen the linux VM and it feels native for all the non-3D tasks I do with it. Even media viewing is a breeze.
My experience has been that Linux is significantly more stable under a VM on Windows or Mac than directly on all but the most conservative hardware. Fewer weird multimedia glitches, no needing to involve any part of the Linux wireless stack of any kind (Bluetooth especially, but also WiFi), fewer video driver issues, fewer program or windowing system crashes.
That is what I have been doing since hardware virtualization became mainstream.