I quit Linux around 2010 and got a MacBook Air, partly because suspend/resume kept breaking. So pleased to know that 15 years later, it still doesn’t work. Proprietary hardware and software for the win.
I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
271–280 of 541 posts
Re: I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because there is no option to disable all animations. Despite the name, that doesn't disable all animations. (In fact, I couldn't even find an animation that does remove.)
You said "Disabling animations . . . is not even an option on Apple's operating systems." That is quite simply false.
One can not disable the animations on MacOS. I would very much like to be wrong. Please tell me I am wrong and how to disable animations, especially when swapping between desktops.
Re: I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
#273Someday I’ll be able to go back to Linux.
In the meantime, Return of the Mac.
Re: I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's me try to give you the solutions to your problems using Mac. 1. Homebrew: I use Nix package manager (with home manager, though you don't need to) and get rid of homebrew completely. 2. Docker: I assume you referred to Desktop version. You can just just Colima and the Docker/Compose CLI. You will get rid of all the bloats coming with Desktop. Bonus: see #1 for installing Colima and Docker CLI.
The parent's complaint about non-native docker is not solved by colima. It's not bloat from the desktop app it's the fact that you have to run a VM to run any sort of container runtime on a mac.
This is no longer the case with macOS 26.
Edit: each container still gets its own vm but the container runtime is now native.
Re: I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
#275Funny side story is years ago when AMD was developing the Opteron A series I commented somewhere that AMD is making a terrible blunder and is going after the wrong market. They needed to start the other way around, and build a kick ass Arm + GPU SoC that was more akin to a PC in terms of performance and not a throw away raspberry pi SoC. Bigger caches, wider memory bus, PCIe e.g. for NVMe, powerful GPU. Essentially something general purpose that could power a mid range laptop/work PC/Desktop/Embedded but designed to be cost effective and crazy power efficient. "There is totally a market for it." I said.
People responded along the lines of "And what is going to run on that?" And they were right. At the time there would have been no killer app, not even Linux could propel it IMO. Of course Apple has the ability to steer their entire ship just like they steered from PowerPC to x86-64. So kudos to them for proving I was right ;-)
Though I still want my AMD Arm GPU SoC...
Re: I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
#276Someday I’ll be able to go back to Linux. In the meantime, Return of the Mac.
That’s a fun song
Re: I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
#277The complaint about power usage in suspend is especially sad because it’s pretty much a common problem for Linux on laptops. Not sure if that’s what applies here, but the numbers about match what I see with my Framework. Basically: if you want to use secure boot you usually also want kernel lockdown mode, and you cannot hibernate a lockdowned kernel. At least not without out-of-tree patches. IMHO that’s a giant issue…
Out of box hibernation support in popular Linux distros is also something we want badly. We’re watching this one eagerly: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/pull/1417
Let’s see how long DHH & co can keep harvesting low hanging fruit of Linux laptop problems. I’d expect they’ll plateau soon but I would love to be surprised.
I’m torn between my instinct to classify anything from DHH as mostly hype, my faith in Linux kernel developers, and my cynicism toward Linux kernel developers.
Re: I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
Saying that the macOS desktop is vastly inferior to Linux desktops is absolutely nuts. I've tried to get my relatives on Linux desktops so many times, just for it to go completely wrong a couple of weeks after and having to reinstall Windows. It's just not made for average (or below-average) users, so I don't see how it can be VASTLY inferior to something as easy and polished as macOS.
I don’t need polished and superior, I need to get work done. I want the OS to get out of the way, not slow me down with animations, stage managers and pretty docks. I don’t even need customization, I just need it to stop trying to outdo itself and fall over. I’d run kde or even gnome on my work MacBook if it let me without a second thought. PS just installed ios 26 and what is this ? If this low contrast blobby windo…
if you are power user, why bother with GUI at all ?
Re: I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
#279> Apple Silicon is built upon ARM64 which is apparently core to such great battery life. Not really, actually. ARM isn’t terribly more efficient to decode than x86, and both are converted into micro-operations that are internal to the CPU. The real strength is Apple’s custom ARM cores; as evidenced by the failure of Qualcomm and MediaTek to make anything quite like it, even with the same manufacturing nodes.
I think as jeffbee said below it's not even the custom ARM cores, but rather Apple's ability to control not only the hardware but the software on-top of it. In a typical Windows machine you are dealing with your CPU and microcode made by AMD/Intel/Other, then the BIOS/Driver code written by your motherboard manufacturer, and your GPU from either the on-board, or dGPU from Intel/Nvidia/AMD and then Windows made by Mic…
Indeed, we've seen a serious lack of care for ACPI by firmware teams on the x86 side.
Re: I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
#280Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of box hibernation support in popular Linux distros is also something we want badly. We’re watching this one eagerly: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/pull/1417
Let’s see how long DHH & co can keep harvesting low hanging fruit of Linux laptop problems. I’d expect they’ll plateau soon but I would love to be surprised. I’m torn between my instinct to classify anything from DHH as mostly hype, my faith in Linux kernel developers, and my cynicism toward Linux kernel developers.
[deleted]