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
#2Why I ditched my M1 MacBook for a $1000 ThinkBook running Omarchy, an opinionated Arch Distro.
Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
#3> It just works. One thing I noticed lately is that sometimes a shortcut breaks, or something is not working anymore. This is also because Omarchy is just brand new, and I’m inexperienced running Linux as my main OS. But for the last 5 years with the M1, hardware-wise, things just worked.
My experience over two decades has been that running Linux is like having a car you need to spend every weekend in the garage tinkering with to keep running well. MacOS is lower effort. I haven't run Windows in a long time, but compared to Linux, it also doesn't require constant tinkering.
While I also think Linux user experience becomes more and more "it just works", the incentives are such that a commercial experience like macOS is likely to always be a few levels above.
Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
#4> It just works. One thing I noticed lately is that sometimes a shortcut breaks, or something is not working anymore. This is also because Omarchy is just brand new, and I’m inexperienced running Linux as my main OS. But for the last 5 years with the M1, hardware-wise, things just worked. My experience over two decades has been that running Linux is like having a car you need to spend every weekend in the garage tink…
It definitely depends on your distribution. My relatives running Debian don't even know how to tinker with it or open a terminal.
Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
#5What IMHO is more interesting than the article itself - what is this little cyberdeck-style mini notebook on the left in this picture that is part of the article? Does anyone have a link?
https://www.ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-arch-linux-omarchy/arch-b...
Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
#6What IMHO is more interesting than the article itself - what is this little cyberdeck-style mini notebook on the left in this picture that is part of the article? Does anyone have a link? https://www.ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-arch-linux-omarchy/arch-b...
Looks like a MicroJournal Rev 2: https://www.tindie.com/products/unkyulee/micro-journal-rev2-...
Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
#7What IMHO is more interesting than the article itself - what is this little cyberdeck-style mini notebook on the left in this picture that is part of the article? Does anyone have a link? https://www.ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-arch-linux-omarchy/arch-b...
It's a distraction free typewriter (https://www.ssp.sh/brain/distract-free-typewriter/). That particular model is a MicroJournal Rev. 2 with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 in it.
Check it out here: https://github.com/unkyulee/micro-journal/blob/main/micro-jo...
Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
#8What IMHO is more interesting than the article itself - what is this little cyberdeck-style mini notebook on the left in this picture that is part of the article? Does anyone have a link? https://www.ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-arch-linux-omarchy/arch-b...
Thanks a lot for the hints - the Micro Journal Rev.2 seems to be quite a nice device!
Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
#9> It just works. One thing I noticed lately is that sometimes a shortcut breaks, or something is not working anymore. This is also because Omarchy is just brand new, and I’m inexperienced running Linux as my main OS. But for the last 5 years with the M1, hardware-wise, things just worked. My experience over two decades has been that running Linux is like having a car you need to spend every weekend in the garage tink…
My early Linux experience involved a ton of manual configuration, documentation, and head scratching. But for the past 10 years or so, using Linux has felt like less of a fight than using Windows, and things have tended to "just work" for me.
Re: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
#10coming from an m1, and given they're awesome as hardware goes, wouldn't asahi be the natural choice? honest question.