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Honestly, I run Linux on a 2015 MacBook Pro. It works much better than it did "out of the box". I get better battery life, because I can turn off things I don'

Honestly, I run Linux on a 2015 MacBook Pro. It works much better than it did "out of the box". I get better battery life, because I can turn off things I don't need. I don't have to restart the audio service before every Zoom call. I don't have to reboot to get external monitors to work again. My Yubikey doesn't drain the battery in a few hours. My system boots to the login screen in the time it takes for the Apple logo to finish showing. I don't have to fight with the App store to keep software up-to-date. I don't have to work around a shitty developer experience with homebrew or docker/virtual machines. I never have to deal with Xcode! In any case, I probably spent a tenth of the time setting everything up, tweaks and all, than I did unfucking the default install of OS X to be usable.

toyg 6y ago
That sounds horrendous! My experience is fairly opposite though. > I get better battery life, because I can turn off things I don't need. I had horrible experiences with Linux and battery life on laptops. Fans on all the time, poor or absent support for sleep and hibernate... Proprietary systems consistently performed better for me in that area. > I don't have to restart the audio service before every Zoom call. That's really weird. I wouldn't even know how to restart the audio service on OsX. > I don't have to reboot to get external monitors to work again. I have occasional issues in that area, but typically it just takes a bit of "nagging" osx to re-detect the monitor, like bringing up the System Preferences panel related to wallpapers. > My system boots to the login screen in the time it takes for the Apple logo to finish showing. One shouldn't need to reboot OsX more than once weekly, or less, but yeah, boot times in OsX have gone to the dogs in the last few years. Windows absolutely smokes it, I guess some Linux distros would too. > I don't have to fight with the App store to keep software up-to-date. It's been alright until recently, but I agree that the last few moves to persuade us to move to "Vistalina" have been annoying. > I probably spent a tenth of the time setting everything up, tweaks and all, than I did unfucking the default install of OS X That's really the opposite for me. The time I always end up spending on stuff like fonts (!) on the average Linux desktop, is just ridiculous.
cpursley 6y ago
How did you get the Webcam to work?
- commoner 6y ago
  There is a reverse-engineered driver for the Facetime HD (Broadcom 1570) webcam on recent MacBook and iMac models: https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie/wiki https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie/wiki

toyg 6y ago

That sounds horrendous! My experience is fairly opposite though. > I get better battery life, because I can turn off things I don't need. I had horrible experiences with Linux and battery life on laptops. Fans on all the time, poor or absent support for sleep and hibernate... Proprietary systems consistently performed better for me in that area. > I don't have to restart the audio service before every Zoom call. That's really weird. I wouldn't even know how to restart the audio service on OsX. > I don't have to reboot to get external monitors to work again. I have occasional issues in that area, but typically it just takes a bit of "nagging" osx to re-detect the monitor, like bringing up the System Preferences panel related to wallpapers. > My system boots to the login screen in the time it takes for the Apple logo to finish showing. One shouldn't need to reboot OsX more than once weekly, or less, but yeah, boot times in OsX have gone to the dogs in the last few years. Windows absolutely smokes it, I guess some Linux distros would too. > I don't have to fight with the App store to keep software up-to-date. It's been alright until recently, but I agree that the last few moves to persuade us to move to "Vistalina" have been annoying. > I probably spent a tenth of the time setting everything up, tweaks and all, than I did unfucking the default install of OS X That's really the opposite for me. The time I always end up spending on stuff like fonts (!) on the average Linux desktop, is just ridiculous.

cpursley 6y ago

How did you get the Webcam to work?

commoner 6y ago
There is a reverse-engineered driver for the Facetime HD (Broadcom 1570) webcam on recent MacBook and iMac models: https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie/wiki https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie/wiki