Switching from macOS: The Basics

You don't need that keyboard or mouse. And, as you said, they are wireless. But the real point is they are not needed. It's a laptop. No need to carry an extra keyboard around with it. Just keep those things at home, I would think. And the adapter for their wireless wires or whatever. Not a problem.

>A gigabit ethernet adapter.

WiFi? This one could be handy, in very rare cases. Better bring a cable too. And a small hub or switch in case there are no ports available. And power for the switch. And a second cable and adapter in case you want to do 2x 1GB... hmmmmm maybe this being prepared for everything bit can be carried too far, no? But let's blame Apple.

>Mini-DP x2 adapter, for my desktop screens. I may be able to leave those attached to the screens, though.

There. What you just said. Leave them attached. No problem.

>I'd need another one for home in that case.

Yep, not a problem.

>Power adapter, HDMI adapter and two USB-A, for attaching to any external screens, speakerphones, and webcams when in a conference room.

It already comes with a power cord. What laptop doesn't?

It has a camera built in.

It has speakers and a microphone.

For connecting to the big screen, AirPlay is wireless.

If all these don't work for you, any decently equipped conference room or company where the room is located should have the proper equipment available. Otherwise you have to make do with the fantastic quality of the built in AV components of the laptop. If they don't even have a screen, are you going to bring one just in case? Of course not; you'll present off the screen on the laptop, in a pinch. As with all the other stuff. But in most cases you won't even need to because they'll have the proper equipment on hand.

And you forgot about conferencing tools like Google Hangouts, which can be freely used by everyone if they simply decide to.

>If I include my hobbies, I will also be needing a USB-C to USB-B cable for my USB hub (or a few new USB-C to Mini- and Micro-USB cables), and a SD card adapter.

Those can stay at home. If you go on a trip to take lots of photos on an SD card, then of course for any such trip you are bringing an SD adapter. Big deal.

To sum up, of all these I see precisely one that while very optional might be nice to have sometimes: the ethernet adapter. The others seem like just moving the goalposts to justify hating on Apple.

Arch has been rock solid for me for 5 years. You just seem to repeat stereotypes.

> Because it is just words without any customer review or experience.

The words have been written from experience.../head against wall/

> still no Products.

WTF is with this "products" - every Linux distro is a "product", even the kernel is a "product" if you will. I told you if you want professional support pay Canonical or RedHat, but you shouldn't need it if you have basic comprehension skills.

> Curious if you really use this Arch and selected hw by its wiki, or you just googled for me, writing from ubuntu on 10-year old thinkpad.

I indeed run it on VERY modern HW and am typing this from [this baby][1] and even run my home server on Arch, because it's been super stable for me, (on [2] if you're interested...)

[1] - https://www.obsidian-pc.com/en/portatil-clevo-p751dm2-g [2] - http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc6i7k...

> Locals can't really tell what to buy, because virtually everyone except those having ancient thinkpads have at least one issue.

Buy any Clevo or a Dell Dev Edition or even a modern HP laptop and you'll be fine.

> others just bought macbook and have no problems trolling linuxoids from osx.

As someone who has to use a MBP for iOS dev, I'll be very careful with the trolling, since there was no release of macOS since 10.6 without major issues, including Sierra. Not even talking 10.7, which was worse than Vista.

> I can spend some money on recent notebook (but don't get that 'serious' and 'pro' arguments, because we talk about regular user and regular hw)

You do what you will - we're talking about a pro here, because this is a post in context of people being disappointed with the newest MBP not being Pro enough for the "Pros".

> what an idiot will I feel myself when it will lose wifi too often or fail to sleep on close.

You have NO IDEA of the irony of this - my 2015 MBP randomly looses WiFi every second day or so, google, "macbook pro loses wifi", it as I am far from alone.

> arguing for linux on desktop is hard

It is in some ways, but I don't care what OS you run and have no desire to "convert you ", I just want to disprove the perceptions that were true a decade ago and have long since been resolved.

Just to give an example of how frustrating this is, i.e. "I tried PulseAudio in 2005 and it sucked, PulseAudio suckzzz!", yeah, it's 2016 and it no longer sucks, in fact it's pretty awesome.

And that right there is the problem. Laziness is a good thing, it means the software is being more useful. And you should encourage complaints and fix the problem, which can only make things better for everyone.

I'm going to leave it there before the mist descends, but basically as far as I'm concerned Apple couldn't design a paper bag without fucking it up.

Where Linux sucked was in the distros' constant "improvement" of core features that weren't broken in order to be first past the post. For example PulseAudio was introduced before it actually worked with most hardware configurations, and nobody cared about the cool new features it came with. Ubuntu deciding to adopt KDE4 before it was ready for general release was another stupid decision. In fact, I'm basically talking about Ubuntu and Gnome.