Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

drikerf.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

301–310 of 372 posts

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

#301

Post by GekkePrutser »

boogies wrote: post #275
boogies wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> laptop can’t run the internals at full power when not connected to AC How is this worse than a MBP that can’t “run the internals at full power” when it doesn’t take breaks to cool off (except maybe outside in winter?)? (Edit: my currently adjacent sibling comment claims that MBPs don’t run at full power off AC either, so their internal utilization seems strictly worse. Reminds me of how Apple arranged with Intel to…

Addendum: And of course you can get ‘the macOS experience’ with Adobe products, etc. on a Thinkpad (making a Hackintosh seems easier than ever with OpenCore &c). Not that I as someone who has used Adobe products on macOS for a class and prefers free-as-in-freedom alternatives ever would.

Easier than ever now yes. Once they finish the move to ARM... :'(

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

#302

Post by tgv »

princevegeta89 wrote: post #292

I always find polished Linux DE's like cinnamon, Gnome 3, Pantheon and unity to be top notch and more usable than OSX. I'm surprised Mac OS has never had an overhaul of the look, on their windows, buttons, icons or anything. On the other hand, I absolutely find it to be nightmare to navigate in Finder - the shortcuts are a mess.. and there is no address bar at all! Other than that I also do find Mac OS to be slower t…

- You can get the directory structure in Finder windows.

- The short cuts are not a mess, they're just not what you're used to.

- macOS may still look similar to previous versions, but, to my taste, anything touched by gnome is a macOS ripoff that looks downright oversized and is either gaudy or too dark.

- Today I tried to get a database manager for mongodb on Ubuntu 20.04 that is more than a wrapper around the command line. Nowhere to be found. And let's not mention video editing, music making, and gaming.

You prefer Linux, fine, but please don't diss the rest.

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

#303

Post by GekkePrutser »

hashedout wrote: post #112
0xmarcin wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When it comes to Bluetooth headphones, I have a totally different experience with iPhone 11. I have Sony WH1000XM3 headphones. I really like them, yet every time I connect them to my iPhone the sound volume jumps to almost 100%. I reported the issue to Apple but got no answer (the headphones are working without any problems with my old android phone - Samsung Galaxy s7). The only solution so far was to enable EU soun…

That is because the integration is not there in the linux ecosystem. Apple has this very tight integration because it controls both the hardware and the software. But there are some companies which have started doing the same thing: - System76 - Tuxedo These companies test their devices well on a distro and well, it reflects in their pricing too!

No quite the same thing. None of the Linux vendors make their own laptops, they just use barebones from Clevo etc.

So they can never achieve the same integration as Apple.

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

#304

Post by laksdjfkasljdf »

tkainrad wrote: post #172

Welcome to Linux! ;) I have been using as my sole OS (except for some very occasional gaming on Windows) for 10 years. The longer you use it, the happier you become with your setup imo. There is a very detailed blog post about my setup that has grown over the years: https://tkainrad.dev/posts/setting-up-linux-workstation It is about Ubuntu, but many sections apply to all distros. The most important productivity boost…

> Bash to Zsh

Always remember that the whole debacle of people even moving away from Bash is because Apple and others are afraid of GPLv3. They dread having to contribute back to the open source projects they profit from.

Most of the things I see for Zsh have been possible (and more portable) on Bash for decades. It's just the new javascript-like hype for Zsh that is new, not the capabilities.

True, Bash have lots of baggage, but half the portability and performance trickery is also because of that baggage. It's impossible to have the niceties Bash offer without some of the tradeoffs, and every new shell learned that the hard way.

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

#305

Post by tgv »

Jaepa wrote: post #129
diminish wrote: post #57

What are the cons of mac? for me: - Sluggish UI - Inadequate package manager - Unintuitive ways to install stuff - Slow and large updates - Can't do Linux development - Can't try server tools - Slow boot-to-work time - Hard to add memory and ram - Limited interfaces - Hacker unfriendly - Can't have a minimal desktop - High memory usage of base system

> - Can't do Linux development How do you figure that? Docker gives you a native linux runtime, and you can use x11 if you're developing GTK/QT clients.

To be fair, docker doesn't run well on macOS. I've got a few containers that are mostly idle on Linux, but take two cores on my mac.

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

#306

Post by kube-system »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #298
zdragnar wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually only notice it about 5% of the time I use it, and it is almost always plugged in at the same outlet, with the same charger (in this case, the two prong adapter). I seem to recall having tested all of the outlets in the house with an outlet tester, but it was two years ago so I'm not 100% sure.

Here in Europe the clip on plugs (duckheads) are not grounded. The extension cord you get with the MacBook too, is. So use that. Not sure about US. But I think it's the same as the duckheads are only 2-prong iirc so they can't possibly be grounded.

Yes, it's the same in the US.

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

#307

Post by stinos »

asciimov wrote: post #293

Some tips from someone who's been doing this linux laptop thing for a long while now (6 year's ago, I replaced my aging MBP with a cheap HP) 0. TAKE NOTES! Make a setup doc that keeps up with the issues of setting up your computer. ie... I have to do some funky things to get my onboard speakers to work, I never remember how to do it, but my notes remember it for me. 1. The trackpad will suck. Just get an external tra…

Wrt note taking for setting up software: I gave up on that in favor of a shell script for initial setup, and pretty much everything else is in Ansible. Works for almost everything, does take some work and sometimes needs updating. But also serves as notes by itself. Anyway the main advantage over notes for me is that I don't have to copy-paste a bunch of commands from notes anymore, and that large parts of it are common to multiple computers I use.

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

#308

Post by laksdjfkasljdf »

princevegeta89 wrote: post #292

I always find polished Linux DE's like cinnamon, Gnome 3, Pantheon and unity to be top notch and more usable than OSX. I'm surprised Mac OS has never had an overhaul of the look, on their windows, buttons, icons or anything. On the other hand, I absolutely find it to be nightmare to navigate in Finder - the shortcuts are a mess.. and there is no address bar at all! Other than that I also do find Mac OS to be slower t…

openbox is more usable than OSX. Heck anything besides twm is more usable than osx.

and osx keeps getting worse and worse. What's up with the maximized windows now?!

Not to mention you still can't command+tab between two terminal windows.

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

#309

Post by oliver101 »

Same experience but reverted to Mac because the hardware is unbeatable.

Had MacBooks since the white clamshells and eventually wanted to go full linux. So bought the X1 Carbon and really regretted it. Screen and trackpad were by far the worst by comparison.

So I’ve returned. Picked up a Mid-2015 15” MBP a few months back and haven't looked back.

Re: One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

#310

Post by krondor »

nikon wrote: post #244
krondor wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have never been able to get it to negotiate AAC on OSX, though technically it does support it. iPhone works fine. Even still LDAC seems superior from my comparison to my Android and iPhone audio. See this thread for some discussion on it. https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/bion53/force_macos_t...

I've successfully configured my Mac to use AptX with my Sony headphones. Follow this guide: https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/31/mac-how-to-force-aptx-aac-on-...

Excellent, not sure what I missed before, but I have aptx and aac now! A good step in the right direction. Still would love LDAC and/or Aptx HD of course in the long run.
Post reply on HN