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From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

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Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

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Post by sandreas »

Retr0id wrote: post #417
sandreas wrote: post #402

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So this would mean that either my configuration is bad or it might be a hardware limitation. So if you don't mind I would love to see your gsettings list-recursively | grep 'peripherals\.touchpad' Here is mine (before you ask, disable-while-typing=false does not fix my problem) : org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad accel-profile 'default' org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method 'fingers' org.gnome.desk…

org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad accel-profile 'default' org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method 'fingers' org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing false org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad edge-scrolling-enabled false org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad left-handed 'mouse' org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad middle-click-emulation false org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touc…

> I have a feeling the magic here is happening in apple firmware, rather than driver or software.

Either the

  disable-while-typing false
(which is the only difference besides speed) or as you said the firmware / hardware. Thank you very much.

Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

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Post by boronine »

creakingstairs wrote: post #149

> And most important, instant workspace navigation. The reason why I was upset with Apple: with the latest update, Yabai didn’t work flawlessly anymore I just wish Apple would let us have instant workspace navigation. It is pretty much the only reason why I wrestle with getting Yabai working on every major OS update. There is “reduced animation” setting but it has a short fade in-and-out animation and it drives me cr…

I also used yabai for this purpose but found a solution that doesn’t require messing with security: https://www.boronine.com/2025/02/09/Instant-Workspace-Switch...

Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

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Post by creakingstairs »

boronine wrote: post #443
creakingstairs wrote: post #149

> And most important, instant workspace navigation. The reason why I was upset with Apple: with the latest update, Yabai didn’t work flawlessly anymore I just wish Apple would let us have instant workspace navigation. It is pretty much the only reason why I wrestle with getting Yabai working on every major OS update. There is “reduced animation” setting but it has a short fade in-and-out animation and it drives me cr…

I also used yabai for this purpose but found a solution that doesn’t require messing with security: https://www.boronine.com/2025/02/09/Instant-Workspace-Switch...

> Using native functionality, you have the option of a seizure-inducing sliding animation or an equally time-wasting fade

Amen.

I tried switching to Aerospace, but it would become visibly laggy when connected to an external display and switching a screen that had Zed open for some reason. So I've switched back to Yabai :(

Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

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Post by saagarjha »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #67
rogerrogerr wrote: post #26

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Curious, what is it that doesn’t make sense?

I can't figure out how to set a shortcut that moves the current window to my other monitor. Always have to go into the toolbar to do it. Edit: And oh! Why do I constantly have to (painfully manually) maximize windows. Preview is constantly choosing a different size, for example. Why is this not remembered. I can't recall the last time an application in linux forgot its size after restarting.

Can you not assign a shortcut to that item?

Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

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Post by trueismywork »

dijit wrote: post #156
jmward01 wrote: post #32

Power management in all aspects is one big thing that I wish was better in all distros. Hibernate/fans/shorter battery life are real usability things. I only use windows when I am at risk of being fired for not using it and macos is 'acceptable' but there are soooo many little things that make me cringe about it (.DS_Store littering every drive I touch is close to the top) but if I knew I could get mac hardware, incl…

Unfortunately, at the behest of Microsoft, manufacturers just came out with s2idle suspend and removed s3 suspend. And it seems the only Microsoft has working support… so sleep issues continue to plague linux… again… after we just solved them. It makes me so furious. more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33608991

Even windows have huge issuee.

Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

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Post by saagarjha »

udev4096 wrote: post #212
p_ing wrote: post #204

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MacOS isn’t more memory efficient, you can’t be when using 16KiB pages vs 4KiB. That’s a lot of wasted memory.

It's definitely not. I use mac pro for work and it chugs around 16GiB (out of 64) of RAM on IDLE! It also has the worst keyboard I have ever used with a crazy big trackpad which I absolutely hate

I don't think you understand how memory accounting works on modern OSes? When the machine is idling, it will have a bunch of stuff in RAM because why wouldn't it?

Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

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Post by baq »

makeitdouble wrote: post #428
baq wrote: post #411

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As a user I care about the damn thing not using up the whole battery overnight, not playing sounds and not running any fans; and I also care that when I open the lid, it’ll happily start doing those things because I now need it to do them. Whether technically it’s called a sleep state or not is irrelevant.

I made the distinction because on occasions you'll close the lid, put the macbook in your backpack and an hour later it's a whole furnace in there. It kinda matters.

> I made the distinction because on occasions you'll close the lid, put the macbook in your backpack and an hour later it's a whole furnace in there.

As a laptop user this just makes me depressed :(

Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

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Post by harshitaneja »

OGEnthusiast wrote: post #51
harshitaneja wrote: post #20

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That seems to be the conclusion I have been avoiding to reach. With graviton and other arm based linux server machines being a good bulk of my work I hoped I wouldn't have to worry about multi architecture docker builds. Ah well. Any suggestions for something well built but lightweight and that one could figure out how to get 8+ hours of actual daily usage battery life on?

I've had a great experience with my Framework 13 (AMD), although I usually get 4-5 hours of battery life, so not quite the full 8 hours you're looking for.

I have tried multiple framework devices as a partner firm uses them. Good devices, want to support what they are doing but yeah battery life is really lacking for my use case.

Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

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Post by harshitaneja »

cycomanic wrote: post #71
harshitaneja wrote: post #20

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That seems to be the conclusion I have been avoiding to reach. With graviton and other arm based linux server machines being a good bulk of my work I hoped I wouldn't have to worry about multi architecture docker builds. Ah well. Any suggestions for something well built but lightweight and that one could figure out how to get 8+ hours of actual daily usage battery life on?

Others have mentioned thinkpads and in my experience the better ones all get 8h+, just stay away from the X1 carbon (my current work machine) with hybrid nvidia graphics. Those have problems of not turning off the external GPU and sucking the battery empty, but that isn't just a Linux problem it seems from lots of forum posts.

It has been a while since I daily drove one but my old laptop used to have an nvidia hybrid setup and it was possible to get power management to work decently with it but that might have been me being lucky with the configuration. Thanks for the headsup.
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