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Yes, definitely, that is why now we have ChromeOS developers instead of Web developers.
You better have made this comment via a native windows hacker news desktop application.
A web site makes for a crap application and the reverse.
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My Mac mini (M1) sips ~6W idle and is completely inaudible. It acts as a desktop whenever I need it to, and as a server 24/7. I only power up my NAS (WoL) for daily backups. The rest of the homelab is for fun and experiments, but mostly gone. "Idle" x86-64 SOHO servers still eat ~30W with carefully selected parts and when correctly tuned, >60W if you just put together random junk. "Cloud" works because of economies o…
The low power draw is definitely not exclusive to Macs, a similar x86 mini PC with Linux will also draw around 5W idle.
If I already need a powerful machine for a desktop, why would I need a second one just so it can stay up 24/7 to run Miniflux or Syncthing? Less is more.
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> and the scheduler on Windows is so poor compared to Linux ones that it’s even common for games to perform better on Linux than on Windows.. I play most of my games in a window and switch away a lot. A million years ago when I was still playing world of warcraft, the system overall was much more responsive on the same hardware with wow on wine on linux than with wow natively running on windows :) > it’s actually Sta…
OP is talking about Google (Stadia) throwing money at the problem and incentivizing game engine companies to better support Linux. They’re not talking about pro or anticonsumer the tech was.
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The reason that keeps me on Windows, is that you left out of your list gaming and 3D graphics on laptops. Metal isn't really on pair with Vulkan and DirectX in terms of relevance for graphics programming, the M chips aren't up to NVidia ecosystem, SYCL, the two major compute APIs for any kind of relevant GPGPU workloads, and thus don't really matter. And gaming, well, even though all major engines support Metal, ther…
> Metal isn't really on pair with Vulkan and DirectX in terms of relevance for graphics programming As if Vulkan had relevance to graphics programming. > and WSL is better integrated and easier to use than Virtualization Framework. you don't need WSL on MacOS because, well, MacOS is already a *nix environment.
It surely has on 80% of a mobile platform, and on a small handset from this little japanese games company.
> troupo 3 hours ago | parent | context | flag | on: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
> Metal isn't really on pair with Vulkan and DirectX in terms of relevance for graphics programming
As if Vulkan had relevance to graphics programming.
> you don't need WSL on MacOS because, well, MacOS is already a *nix environment.
Agree if everything one wants out of it is classical UNIX experience, that breaks down when having to work with containers and kubernetes locally.
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At this point this is not an argument anymore, it’s just a thought terminating cliche. Expecting users to change their daily habits in order to marginally improve the operating system of a trillion dollar company feels naive and a bit disrespectful to people who actually use these machines for work. Even developers… the vast majority of developers ignored Apple for decades (and Apple was also hostile) and it managed…
But the opposite is assuming that Apple has a "responsibility" towards its existing users and has to acknowledge their expectations from them. A sentiment which famously led Steve Jobs to respond that he doesn't understand this, because "people pay us to make that decision for them" and "If people like our products they will buy them; if they don't, they won't" [0] So according to Steve Jobs himself, the only Apple-a…
Most people are not going to migrate to Android, Windows, Linux or whatever else just to make macOS marginally better.
And it's fine: marginal quality improvements of a product are not the "responsibility" of consumers.
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Apple (at least current leadership) is programmatically degrading it's products so people would buy a new one. Who expects anything good from such a team.
That statement makes no sense, as the new products are worse than the old ones
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> I believe there was some consternation when CentOS Stream 10 launched without even a packaged web browser and the advice was to install Firefox from Flathub Ubuntu does the exact same thing with their snap repository, the Firefox apt package from Ubuntu is fake. At least Flatpak is a community-led project unlike snap.
My advice is to add Mozilla's apt repo for Firefox by following the handy guide on their website. It's pretty short and easy (copy and paste).
You can limit the file system permissions of the app, like giving only access to downloads, so that if/when there’s a sandbox leak you’re fine. You can also disable various things, like webcam or mic, this way.
In addition, you can get perpetual updates to the latest version of your browser even on old, stable distros like Debian.
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Maybe if you run a fleet that's statistically true. If you're a regular person you can have incredible bad luck with specific models. Got two "2k" Lenovos at 4 year intervals. The first one worked fine but that model was known to have a weak hinge. Had to replace it three times. The second one had a known problem that some units simply stop working with the internal display and the only solution is replacing the moth…
I think price isn't the only thing. PC gaming/consumer laptops lean pretty heavily on price to performance ratios and I think they cut build quality to do it. Business lines like Thinkpad/EliteBook tend to offer worse performance dollar for dollar but they are built better.
Where's a Thinkpad that can run Maya comfortably for a student? AFAIK they only have models with Quadros that have anything but student prices.
So I'm stuck with "gaming" models.
Besides my daughter likes the bling :) If only they could sell me something that doesn't die in a week...