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It's not the thinness, it's the amazing battery life.
Framework Pro has that now
I want framework to succeed, I want them to have battery life as good as my Mac. But I’m gonna let other people test that for me this time. Maybe in another 5 years I’ll believe it.
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So have a buried option that power users can flip one time to add an allow button to opening untrusted apps.
But that's exactly what `sudo spctl --master-disable` does! You'll still see a warning dialog on first launch.
I have been developing software for Macs and PCs as an Indie for 20 years now. I sympathize with the author of the post. You get the feeling that Apple thinks you should be grateful that they allow you to develop apps for their platform. The author didn't mention Apple's contempt for backward compatibility. Apple like to regularly nuke their entire developer system from orbit. Try running an app developed 10 years ag…
> Apple's contempt for backward compatibility This is absolutely correct. Instead of maintaining any sort of ABI and API stability, Apple offloads a constant burden of maintenance updates across thousands of developers, just to keep existing apps from breaking every year with a new iOS version. This takes time which could be spent in more productive ways such as fixing bugs, adding features, or developing new apps. I…
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Honestly, I kind of support this lack of backward compatibility. So many apps I use from big companies are still Intel based and leaving tons of performance on the table. This will finally force them to change when Rosetta is deprecated. Open source apps are all native.
Mac used to have a lot of great shareware from indie devs. Some of them have shut down and their apps will eventually stop working. Kinda annoying when I can play the windows port of a game on windows but not the original Mac version
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The problem is that you're buying hardware designed for Windows, putting Linux on it instead, and expecting to have no issues whatsoever. I don't think that's practical. When you try to run Windows on hardware designed for Linux, you run into similar fiddly problems. Exhibit A, the Steam Deck. If you want a laptop that the manufacturer explicitly designed to be Linux compatible, the recent Frameworks are worth a look…
No, the problem is I’m buying hardware that’s readily available to me. The cheapest framework laptop I can assemble in the UK at the time of writing this is “estimated” at £1226. System76 seems to be us based and the pricing is similar. When I search for Linux laptops on Lenovo, I get chromebooks, dell’s cheapest option is £1399 and I can’t actually figure out what’s going on with HP. > putting Linux on it instead, a…
Bargain Hardware sell a wide range of second hand hardware with Linux preintalled.
You might get better shipping costs from other European vendors than US ones too.
Most Windows hardware will work fine but its worth doing a bit of research before buying.
How does anyone who cares about open source or even development more generally see this and go "Yeah that's the OS I want to use"? I genuinely don't understand why so many developers are willing to compromise so much for a thin laptop.
It isn't just thin: they are quiet and fast with the best trackpads, reasonable keyboards that (except for the idiotic move when they released the touch bar and dropped the escape key) have a reasonable layout that doesn't change much, and all of the power states work correctly every single time. I am the second most stubborn person I know in my friend group on this, and after only using a desktop for a couple years…
Never upload your ID. If that means not developing for a platform, don't develop for that platform.
While I do agree with an overall sentiment, you can't seriously think this is a viable solution for most developers, surely.
This was perhaps the biggest reason I moved to Linux full-time about a year ago. I just got sick of not being able to write software and have people use it. The solution might be an "I trust this author" VS Code style dialog and that's it, but even that misses the mark a bit. I've been having a blast building on Linux and miss almost nothing about macOS. And the things I do miss I write programs for [1][2] and give t…
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> what do you actually want? Give me the ability to choose what I trust. “You can either trust Apple and nobody else, even yourself, or you can trust literally everybody” is obviously not a good faith implementation of this. Apple excels at steering the narrative with false conflation and false dichotomy, I’d also remind you of the came-and-went secure boot debate, which Apple successfully steered into Apple owns the…
I want the ability to run any linux distro on my macbook, like I can with any other computer that is not a macbook.
It would be wonderful if Apple shipped the Asahi team a bunch of docs hardware, and commissioned them to complete+productionize support for every single Apple Silicon Mac released up until now plus the upcoming gen. If they did that, maybe in one year support would be great and in two or three years, you coule use any distro you liked and get full support.
But that's not really who Apple is or how they position themselves in the market afaict. This wish is sadly barking up the wrong tree.