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I was provided with a Macbook Pro 15" by my work and I struggle to understand comments like this. Upgrades often break things, I'm forced to use brew to instal
by bashtoni 6y ago
I was provided with a Macbook Pro 15" by my work and I struggle to understand comments like this.
Upgrades often break things, I'm forced to use brew to install software which leaves files strewn around the file system and regularly seems to have cross package conflicts.
And don't get me started on the hardware - the laptop is excessively heavy and the keyboard is awful (and I don't just mean the touch bar gimmick).
My personal laptop is a Lenovo Carbon X1 and Fedora runs very nicely on it, requiring very little thought put into management if you're running the default desktop (Gnome). I can update the firmware and BIOS from inside Linux, and Lenovo have even started shipping newer versions of the laptop with Fedora pre-installed.
There's massive scope of tinkering with Linux if you want to, but as long as you're careful with the hardware you buy there's absolutely no need to tinker at all if you don't want to.
- javagram 6y agoMacports seems much better than brew generally, but also under maintained and vastly under-used compared to brew for some reason.
- darthrupert 6y agoThat's fine, there's no reason why everyone needs to understand why I do what I do :) I agree with you on FOSS software brittleness though, Linux is usually better on that front. Brew is a hack that works well enough in practice, however.