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Look at the new Lenovo Carbon X1 - from what I've heard it pretty much ticks all of those boxes.
Anything Lenovo usually does. I've got a T61 and an X220 tablet here which everything in Ubuntu 12.04 works fine. The only problem I've had was connecting to an SSTP VPN but that was resolved easily with an ssh tunnel.
The disadvantage Linux has to Windows or Mac OS X at this point is mostly small ease of use issues and polish. Sometimes to have to do stuff to make stuff work, though most stuff worked out of the box.
The stuff that is easier to do in Linux is really easy to do. The stuff that is hard to do is sometimes really hard, but I've yet to find anything to be impossible. Where as with Windows and Mac OS X, some simple things are easy, some simple things things are difficult, and some things, especially anything unusual, seem impossible to do.
I think where Ubuntu occasionally falls is in a lack of unity a focus on functionality before ease of use, and a tendency towards a tabla rasa. I'd probably be on xmonad (a tiling window manager) now if it came with a nice setup to start and then let you select from built in user set ups, tweak existing setups, OR make your own. But that's also part of the strength of the linux ecosystem, people build things to be interoperable and flexible and hackable. And for a Developer, the latter is preferable anyway.
tl:dr Linux isn't the same as windows or OS X. But it is perfectly viable as a desktop OS. And where it rocks, it rocks hard.
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Re: 1., I tried powertop once but was afraid to touch anything :-) what did you do to get 9-10 hrs? I don't think I've gotten far above 7. What kind of usage? (I expect you're not running make -j4 all the time =P) Also, for those two years, have you tried keeping it between 40-70% charged as they recommend, or have you been more "reckless" about letting it discharge and fully charge?
I turned all the powertop options on. Granted I did do this before I started using it for anything serious as a test case and left it a day. Worked fine. To get 9-10 hours I used a 9-cell pack and keep the brightness fairly low. The screen kills it more than anything. I also have a 128Gb Crucial M4 SSD in it which is a little less power hungry than most devices. It does only have 4Gb of RAM though. As for usage, main…
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I turned all the powertop options on. Granted I did do this before I started using it for anything serious as a test case and left it a day. Worked fine. To get 9-10 hours I used a 9-cell pack and keep the brightness fairly low. The screen kills it more than anything. I also have a 128Gb Crucial M4 SSD in it which is a little less power hungry than most devices. It does only have 4Gb of RAM though. As for usage, main…
Ah, I guess I shouldn't keep brightness at full then :-) Unfortunately I can't get away from big compiles … Thanks for the detailed answer.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/itemdetails/0A36280/460/2D575BF5CD...
Weighs a bit but you'll get another 5 hours :)
Ironically the biggest reason for me to stick with OS X is Microsoft Office. If you are working with other organizations, they will use Office. Excel seems to run the world and is used for accounting, specifications, I've even seen customers give us mockups they have made of the website they want in Excel. The various tools on Linux or the web for reading Word docs have come a long way and I'd say are mostly good eno…
Can someone explain to me what exactly is wrong with the OS X terminal?
It's been a while since I used it, but off the top of my head: - colors never worked right, you can certainly enable them but themes like solarized are impossible to get working. - it took forever to open. as in, a terminal on my machine is just a keypress away and it took the terminal on my osx machine a couple seconds to open a window, and even longer to show me a prompt - somehow they borked mouse input, so clicki…
But, basically, sudo rm -rf /private/var/log/asl/*.asl fixes it.
I live in Terminal.app - usually have 15-20 tabs open all day long - so little tweaks like that (saving 2 seconds each time you open a new window) makes a big difference.
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It's been a while since I used it, but off the top of my head: - colors never worked right, you can certainly enable them but themes like solarized are impossible to get working. - it took forever to open. as in, a terminal on my machine is just a keypress away and it took the terminal on my osx machine a couple seconds to open a window, and even longer to show me a prompt - somehow they borked mouse input, so clicki…
Problem #2 can be addressed with this. touch ~/.hushlogin
mbf041:~ shephard$ ls -lart ~/.hushlogin
-rw-r--r-- 1 shephard staff 0 Apr 23 21:36 /Users/shephard/.hushlogin
mbf041:~ shephard$
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For Thinkpads what you list under 2) will usually work without hiccups. Generally, Intel is very good with its driver support, so try to pick a laptop with Intel WiFi & GPU. Depending on your needs you may want an nVidia or ATI GPU though. Can't say anything on multitouch with the Touchpad, since I don't use it.
Keywords: usually, generally, depending, can't say.
I can tell you that my specific installation of Debian works flawlessly on my specific Thinkpad T420s, but what does that help you?