Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake • Hacker News Board

Re: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake

#641

Post by 13rac1 » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 4:37 PM UTC

reacharavindh wrote: post #533

13rac1 wrote: post #497

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why both my work and personal machines only run LTS versions.

Does that mean you don't have such issues when upgrading from LTS to LTS? No snark. Seriously asking. Are LTS versions generally better in this regard?

Canonical says LTS are for polish and non-LTS are new features: https://www.ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

> Interim releases will introduce new capabilities from Canonical and upstream open source projects, they serve as a proving ground for these new capabilities.

Re: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake

#642

Post by 13rac1 » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 4:38 PM UTC

seba_dos1 wrote: post #529

13rac1 wrote: post #497

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why both my work and personal machines only run LTS versions.

I rather use rolling releases. This way the breakage is contained to 5-10 minute fixing sessions once in a few months, instead of a huge whole-day upgrading session every new release.

I haven't experienced whole-day upgrading sessions in a long time. YMMV.

Re: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake

#643

Post by arbie » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 8:44 AM UTC

hultner wrote: post #548

hollander wrote: post #501

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you spend big bucks on a MBP, and still have problems with performance, you could start using the cloud or a home server for that docker stuff. Scaleway has reasonable priced servers, or you buy something like a simple Zotac Mini PC to run as linux server at home.

Do you happen to know any great guide for setting it up properly? I did it a while back with docker machine but I remember it being quite the hassle and didn't work as smoothly as a locale instance, damn shame since docker is the number obesity leading reason I keep running out of ram on my laptop.

I have had a good time with Cloud9, now part of AWS. I default to t2.nano and scale it up for large bursts of workload.

Re: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake

#644

Post by rstuart4133 » Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 9:22 AM UTC

jordanbeiber wrote: post #223

robertAngst wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>buy Apple device and be sure that everything there is pretty good. The alternative is that you spend 30 minutes of research and get a superior product cheaper. This isnt an opinion, this is reality. You can find a computer with better specs than Apple, cheaper. I'm not sympathetic to the 'mom' who doesn't know what RAM is, they get penalized by Apple for being an uninformed consumer. Is there any reason for a 'Nerd'…

In my experience: it’s ”unix” on a laptop that just works. Easy access to up-to-date tooling through brew: zsh, docker, bash, vim et al. Now don’t get me wrong, I’ve been a Linux only user since the 90’s and for many years used the dell xps developer edition. But, the mac touchpad (I know, I’m doing it wrong) and screen coupled with superior battery time as well as solid sleep/wakeup makes for a great experience. The…

Yes Linux does indeed just work on new Dell laptops now. I can personally testify that wasn't always the case. In years gone by it was a world of pain for the 1st 6 months while open source developed drivers for hardware they hadn't seen until the laptop was released.

That all changed when Dell started selling versions of their laptops with Linux pre-installed. And it didn't change a little bit either, in many cases it was a complete reversal. Drivers got released on Linux _before_ Windows - in particular Intel video drivers were repeatedly released on Linux before Windows in my case.

I presume that's developers are moving to Linux now. That was driven home to me just now when reading the Bling Fire post here, learning Bling Fire is an internal library used by MS's Bing search engine - then noticing all the instructions had a very nix'y feel, and the benchmark environment was Ubuntu.