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Every time people bring up how superior Macs are (and their hardware is great ) I bring up the fact that being forced to use MacOS is a negative. It's sufficient, but not great. Both Windows and Linux are equally good, just with warts in different places.
I can't stand multiple displays, mac or not, they just distract me. I want one big display, something like 27" or 32". To each their own.
Windows 11 does actually help this quite a bit by putting the Start Button in the middle of the screen.
Additionally using PowerToys FancyZones might actually make it usable.
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Where "outdated" means like 1-2 years at maximum. The horror. If you want to plug "new" at least go for silver blue or nix os, where it makes a difference.
1-2 years is SOOO long That means no running NVIDIA GPUs for 1-2 years! Or having broken software for 1-2 years!
The XDR is easily one of the best monitors on the market for coding if you value high resolution. I've never had issues with bloom on it either, seems more relevant for stress tests than daily usage.
XDR url?
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College students often prioritize battery life because they are away from chargers for so many hours of the day. And you absolutely have to admit the M1 Macs really just destroy Windows and Linux in terms of battery life. Regardless, there are very practical reasons to have different priorities than yours.
College kids need to be on their laptops all day? Nah that is post purchase rationalization.
And yes. The answer is YES. Yes, college kids need to be on their laptop all freaking day.
Can you think of a reason why?
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> OH man! Victim of Apple marketing right here. You have an integrated GPU in your CPU. Dude, I know what an integrated GPU is (and it's certainly not "GPU in your CPU"). You're not smarter than everyone else for having a laptop with a dedicated GPU and running Linux on it. You haven't found a magical loophole in the laptop market by not buying Apple. You're just prioritizing different stuff than Apple users.
>You're not smarter than everyone else for having a laptop with a dedicated GPU and running Linux on it. Sure there are 7B people in the world! But I'm def smarter than people who spend $2500 on a few GB ram and no GPU. Plato suggests its wrong for smart people to be humble, it allows dumb people to step up and make their points. If you arent compiling for iOS, you made an inefficient decision. There is a reason Appl…
Tell that to Linus Torvalds, seen using a few different MacBooks over the years. So far, you've made the impression of an arrogant nobody who doesn't know what a GPU is.
> Apple is found on low to middle income consumer households
Citation needed.
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Three times I tried switching from Windows to Mac and each time I bounced because of how janky basic window ergonomics were. I shouldn't have to buy single-dollar-programs to fix core OS functionality.
Huh. After years of mar I tried to go back to windows. I did it for 2 years but I'm so much happier on Mac again. I did kind of like the windows thg of dragging a window to the top to maximise, but that stuff is easy to replace with an app or two. General OS slowness and instability and clunky design not so much.
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Not sure if it’s a bug with your specific setup, but scrolling vertically in a straight line from the centre of the screen all the way to the bottom will make the dock switch to that monitor.
Holy cow, that's so unintuitive.
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> scroll wheel, for which 'natural scroll' is absurdly unnatural IMO there is no objective reason why turning a plastic wheel towards or away from the screen should be the natural choice for scrolling down a webpage. It's just something that some people are used to. My head sees scrolling on a touchpad, the Magic Mouse and a wheeled mouse as the same thing — and I even set my Windows gaming machine so that the mouse…
> IMO there is no objective reason why turning a plastic wheel towards or away from the screen should be the natural choice for scrolling down a webpage. It's just something that some people are used to. Hard disagree. I move the mousewheel down to go down the page, and up to go up. That's natural. Swiping around my desktop screens and apps like it's a tablet makes no sense. It's the very first thing I turn off on al…