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Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by nix23 »

totony wrote: post #436
jamesponddotco wrote: post #394

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The T models without the S usually have no soldered RAM, or only one soldered slot. The ThinkPad T480, for example, has two upgradable RAM slots and one or two NVMe slots. Heck, even the Wi-Fi card is removable. When talking about ThinkPads, I always recommend going with the T line and skipping anything with S at the end.

Oh you're right, they seem to only have 1 slot soldered. They should advertise that more on their website. Seeing 8GB (soldered) + 1 expansion would be clearer

It's still BS, if you have a dual-channel CPU you are restricted to just upgrade the additional slot to the soldered one like 8GB+8GB and same speed.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by ghthor »

circularfoyers wrote: post #447
Aeolun wrote: post #414

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Jup, comes with a customized proton build, and the ability to select specific proton versions if you have them installed. I’d say 50% of games works out of the box. And 25% more after installing some video libraries that are for some reason not automatically installed.

You can also get more precise and up to date numbers on what does and doesn't work from ProtonDB[1]. In the reports for each game you're able to see details like distro release, proton release and any other extra steps required (if any) to get the game working. [1] https://www.protondb.com

Proton DB is great, Donate to the maker!

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by masklinn »

thawkins wrote: post #155
masklinn wrote: post #60

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> Docker performance on current Intel Macs is much worse than Linux. One can only wonder why running linux containers on OSX would be slow.

Becuase macosx containers run inside a Linux VM, not on the native host OS, same with Windows;

> Becuase macosx containers run inside a Linux VM, not on the native host OS

My comment was sarcastic.

> same with Windows

Significantly less so as Microsoft themselves provide the virtualisation glue, with a custom kernel and a dedicated / special-cased VM, in the form of WSL2.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by rfvrgvegbegn »

trey-jones wrote: post #240

I haven't felt out the general attitude in the comments. I expect it's a lot of Linux people vs. Apple people. And maybe it's appropriate. I would say Linux people should use Linux and Apple people should use Apple. No problem either way. If you're a Linux-curious Apple person, then perhaps you'll find some good information here. I think most of us are probably very, very specific about our technological tools, so th…

> I would say Linux people should use Linux and Apple people should use Apple. No problem either way.

You make it sounds like it's a simple as "take vanilla ice cream if you like vanilla and take chocolate if you like chocolate".

It's not, if you read the comments, you realize there's much more to the debate, it's about ethics, the future of computing, our societies, monopolies, privacy, independence, freedom, and much more.

From food to clothes to electronics, there is an ethical choice behind what you buy and we shouldn't reduce it to "pick your favorite color" without considering the monsters we are feeding by buying this or that product.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by itwy »

gorgoiler wrote: post #99

This is going to sound dumb or elitist but I am so much happier working since I ditched portable computing. I have a desk at home in an office. I have the same setup at work. I don’t carry my dev environment with me. When I need to work I go to the ’do work stuff’ place. Nice keyboard. Nice mouse. And a nice OS that, yes, took a whole day to configure but over which I have total control. (Full-screen focus-mode no-or…

Until the day you need to travel...

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by conceptualspace »

apjana wrote: post #457
conceptualspace wrote: post #110

to me the most underrated thing i miss on Linux compared to mac is the file manager. I'm trying to get nnn setup efficiently but the out of the box options feel incredibly half baked in comparison to finder

Can you please elaborate what you mean by "half baked"? nnn has macOS users and I believe the number is picking up given we are getting more bug reports from macOS users recently. Knowing macOS users, we can consider polishing some crude corners if the problem statement seems reasonable.

the comment was directed towards the default file managers, nautilus etc, not nnn. i love nnn! keep up the good work!

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by conceptualspace »

conceptualspace wrote: post #476
apjana wrote: post #457

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Can you please elaborate what you mean by "half baked"? nnn has macOS users and I believe the number is picking up given we are getting more bug reports from macOS users recently. Knowing macOS users, we can consider polishing some crude corners if the problem statement seems reasonable.

the comment was directed towards the default file managers, nautilus etc, not nnn. i love nnn! keep up the good work!

to elaborate on my experience with the others, generally they are slow or have poor ux for common tasks like search or rename, lack a decent content view (thumbnails), etc

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by jamesponddotco »

totony wrote: post #436
jamesponddotco wrote: post #394

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The T models without the S usually have no soldered RAM, or only one soldered slot. The ThinkPad T480, for example, has two upgradable RAM slots and one or two NVMe slots. Heck, even the Wi-Fi card is removable. When talking about ThinkPads, I always recommend going with the T line and skipping anything with S at the end.

Oh you're right, they seem to only have 1 slot soldered. They should advertise that more on their website. Seeing 8GB (soldered) + 1 expansion would be clearer

Until the T495, which was the last generation before the T14 came along, it used to be that the T with an S at the end would have one soldered RAM stick and one available to upgrade, while the T without the S would have both available, hence why the T without the S was my recommended model.

I would always recommend buying used with the minimal amount of RAM for cheap, and then upgrading everything manually, from RAM to NVMe to Wi-Fi card.

With the T14, however, it seems Lenovo fucked up big time. No more extra removable battery, no more empty RAM slots. The one soldered does seem to be 3200MHz, so Ryzen benefits greatly once you fill the second RAM slot with another 3200MHz stick — since Ryzen, and especially the integrated graphics, love dual channel fast memory —, but if you choose wrong when you buy, you are stuck.

That sucks and does create a problem for my future self. Right now I have a T495 and my wife has a T480 with an extra big battery, and we were going to upgrade both to the T14 for Ryzen 4000, but soldered RAM is a travesty.

I wonder where we are going to go now. I mostly use desktop workstations because working from home for 11 years now, I learned that workstations help with work discipline, but a laptop always end up being needed.

I hate Dell with a passion, the Asus Zephyrus G14 suffers from the same issues as the ThinkPad T14, and HP uses ugly fonts in their keyboards, which bugs me. The Pinebook Pro is nice, but mine hasn't arrived. Maybe the Slimbook from that German KDE shop?

Hopefully it ships to Brazil.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by Sunspark »

rovr138 wrote: post #439
Sunspark wrote: post #371

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Why can't you? I'm writing this from Windows 7 as we speak. I also have 10 installed on this PC. I prefer 7. I have SMB1 and RDP turned off, I'm not really worried it'll get owned through my router either. I don't use anti-virus either, but then again, I also don't run random exes that arrive in email or through an ad.

They literally say why on their post.

No, what is listed are the concerns they have with W10 but they don't say what is preventing them from using W7 if they really want to.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by apjana »

conceptualspace wrote: post #476
apjana wrote: post #457

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please elaborate what you mean by "half baked"? nnn has macOS users and I believe the number is picking up given we are getting more bug reports from macOS users recently. Knowing macOS users, we can consider polishing some crude corners if the problem statement seems reasonable.

the comment was directed towards the default file managers, nautilus etc, not nnn. i love nnn! keep up the good work!

Got it! Thanks for clarifying.
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