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This isn't quite the question asked, but it pertains. My personal laptop is a 2010 MBP. I was waiting to replace it until, well, I saw the new one. Now, I'm re
by __jal 10y ago
This isn't quite the question asked, but it pertains.
My personal laptop is a 2010 MBP. I was waiting to replace it until, well, I saw the new one. Now, I'm really undecided.
I'm planning on borrowing a laptop to run Debian on and see how much my workflow changes. I spend a lot of time in vim and the terminal in general, connected to mostly Linux machines, so in that sense, at least system directories will be more similar.
Things I know I'll miss: excellent hardware, Omnifocus, Omnioutliner, 1password, a windowing system designed by people with actual functional aesthetic sensibilities. And I'll have to figure out an alternate phone backup, because I won't use cloud backup and dislike Android (not enough to be unwilling to use it, but enough that re-purchasing software to use it is really unappealing).
Things I won't miss: watching Apple turn excellent general purpose machines into appliances that don't respect the user's desires, being asked to pay ~$200 and my escape key muscle-memory for an goofy emoji toolbar, and every release coming with 5 more inscrutable daemons that want make connections to seemingly random hosts at seemingly random times, which my machines are not allowed to do.
Actually, just the act of writing this out made me firm up my conclusion; I'm no longer in Apple's target market. So no, I won't be purchasing the new MBP. Better to start migrating now and I'll worry about the phone conundrum later.
As far as the actual question, if I'm using Linux at home, I'll ask for a Linux laptop for work. I'd rather not waste time keeping current on OS X if that isn't what I use when not at work.
- gremlinsinc 10y agoI recommend giving Antergos a try it's based on Arch Linux, and I'd also recommend i3wm - it's a tiled window manager that makes your workspace seem like you're in vim i.e. tons of shortcuts and hardly need to touch the mouse, and it's extremely low on memory/ram resource usage.
- __jal 10y agoI appreciate the advice. I rather like Debian, personally, and am kinda past the point where playing with different distros is enjoyable. Debian is an extremely solid base on which to build anything newer I need, and it just works[1]. I'm resigned to the crappy state of window managers on Linux. I don't believe it has gotten materially better since the 90s. Honestly, to me, that's fine, if the annoyances stay at a dull roar (which basically means avoiding the slough of despond called Gnome[2]). I use a tiling WM called awesome[3], and for me it sucks slightly less that the other ones I've tried in the last couple years. [1] Additionally, on one machine at home I have Windows running in a VM with VGA-passthrough, and that's enough of a hassle to get working that I really don't relish learning yet another checklist for, e.g., generating initramfs or whatever. [2] Yeah, apparently some people honestly like it. Good for them. I have no idea what's going on in the project, but the actual product exhibits all of Apple's UX arrogance bundled with only a tiny fraction of Apple's UX ability. Whatever the story is, it took me perhaps 10 minutes before wishing I could do something more violent than `apt-get purge`. [3] https://awesomewm.org/ https://awesomewm.org/