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I guess I should have known better, just like nature, open source "finds a way".
[1] https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=196533&curpost...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25216680
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Every single laptop my company bought me in the last 10 years (3+) had kernel/driver issues, especially with Ubuntu, since the kernel version was usually lower than that from other distros, like Fedora. This includes mostly graphics driver issues (either simply Nvidia, or hybrids, or some exotic protocols such as DisplayLink), but also touchpad, power/suspend issues (e.g. wake-up failure), lack of fingerprint or smar…
I can live without the fingerprint reader. It’s the lack of hibernate that really sucks. I got my 2013 MBA battery replaced. Leave it unplugged for 10 hours. 1% battery drop. XPS 17 on Pop OS LTS with kernel 5.8. I have to shut down if I want battery left.
Semi on topic: I don't have one either but I would really like to, simply because then I could have a stronger account password.
Having to frequently use sudo restricts the length/complexity of the password since a longer one would simply be a pain in the ass to use. With a fingerprint reader this problem wouldn't exist.
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I feel like the pattern is that when you start to dig into people talking about their great experience with Linux on a laptop, you end up eventually getting them to admit that there are a lot of annoyances they’ve just resigned to living with
So we don't exclude them to make a point, that's also true for Mac and PC laptops. My XPS 15 wifi won't wake automatically after sleep on Windows. Wifi works perfectly on Linux, but there are things that don't work with the touchscreen in tablet mode on Fedora that I've been told work on Ubuntu. My T2 MacBooks are little nightmares sometimes, fans screaming during video meetings and crashing and draining battery inst…
The 2016-2019 mbp have been ripped on by everyone, Mac fan or not. I'm not sure if they will go down as the worst Macs of all time, but it might the longest stretch of bad Macs in the history of the Mac.
With the M1 that time appears to be over - finally.
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Anecdotal I know, but I very recently got a macbook air after years of practically exclusively using Linux and the opinionated user interface drives me crazy. Here's a few pain points: - Scroll direction can only be set globally so either touchpad or mouse scrolling feels awkward for me - You need an extra click on another window before you can interact with it - No focus-follows-mouse (there used to be 3rd party plu…
- for scroll direction: https://mos.caldis.me/ - resize and move windows with shortcuts: https://rectangleapp.com/ both free and open source
This is very anecdotal but every single laptop I have bought in the last 10 years (4) worked perfectly out-of-the box with either Linux Mint or Ubuntu (which are the same on the inside). I only vaguely remember once I had to change some conf file for my trackpad to work after a dist update but that was it. Not sure why everyone in this thread is so hesitant about Linux on a laptop? It literally just works (tm) for me…
Here are my thoughts on Linux... I used Ubuntu on my sole/main machine for a month up until recently: i9 10900K, 32GB, 1TB NVMe SSD, GTX1080, MSI Z-490-A Pro, 3 x screens. In my day job I'm a .NET developer so I created a Windows 10 VM for VS 2019 and allocated 4 cores and 12GB RAM. I used VMWare Workstation 16. It was smooth as hell. I developed PHP/Laravel/Wordpress stuff in Linux using PHP Storm and VSCode. Docker…
Reminded me about a time years ago I had to do some c# work in Windows 7. At the time, I found the best Windows laptop experience was running it in a VM on a MBP.
This is very anecdotal but every single laptop I have bought in the last 10 years (4) worked perfectly out-of-the box with either Linux Mint or Ubuntu (which are the same on the inside). I only vaguely remember once I had to change some conf file for my trackpad to work after a dist update but that was it. Not sure why everyone in this thread is so hesitant about Linux on a laptop? It literally just works (tm) for me…
Also very anecdotal, but I've been running Linux on laptops for ~15 years, and have had many issues and difficulties. My first mistake was trying to run Linux on Mac laptops for the first 10 of those years. (To be fair, my first Mac+Linux experience was on a PowerBook, which surprisingly worked rather well, though power management was terrible so battery life suffered. Once the Intel train started, it was... not grea…
- Support for Optimus laptops with on-demand rendering offload, if one does the research and uses the correct env variables or tries the "Launch using Dedicated Graphics Card" menu item in GNOME.
- Some whispers of Nvidia finally using dmabuf in the next version of its drivers. With appropriate code/kernel module restructuring for GPL compatibility, I guess.
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Do not blame Firefox, this is actually how MacOS UI works by default: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/269622/macos-windo... I think the other poster has some addon installed and forgot about it.
I don't think I do, I'm a fairly recent convert to macOS. I'm running Big Sur and I can interact with any window the mouse cursor is over. I can scroll any window I'm hovering over, and with a single click can perform an action.
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- for scroll direction: https://mos.caldis.me/ - resize and move windows with shortcuts: https://rectangleapp.com/ both free and open source
If a Linux user suggested people to download external 3rd party software to make their desktop experience nicer they'd get absolutely blasted and be told that users shouldn't be expected to tweak stuff and download 3rd party tools. Why is this acceptable for macOS users?
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Some of which they are not even aware of unless they have used other systems for some time. "I don't even have any problems with bluetooth, audio or a secondary display" Why would you mention these? Why would anybody expect to have problems with that? ;) FWIW I use linux on laptop for dev, it's great for my specific use case (terminals flying around), I would not recommend it to my family. i3wm FTW
> Why would you mention these? Why would anybody expect to have problems with that? Because other people on Hacker News always mention problems like them.