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The only issue I have with Linux is the quality of the hardware. Mac hardware is incredible. I have mac's still running from decades ago and used heavily. All

The only issue I have with Linux is the quality of the hardware. Mac hardware is incredible. I have mac's still running from decades ago and used heavily. All my Dell XPS's which are supposedly the Cadillac PC brand have broken down after a few years. Maybe Lenovo is better in this regard? Do I have to spend 2k to find out when a Mac is pretty much guarantee to be amazing from a hard ware perspective. And with Docker, VMs, AWS, and Multipass, I'm never at a loss for Linux features.

kiwijamo 5y ago
I have a second-hand Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop and I've been very impressed with the build quality (even though my previous laptop was a Macbook so my standards were already quite high). It is also well specced technically, with everything I wanted e.g. USB-C power charging, decent CPU and a GPU easily capable of playing my favourite games. I can easily see myself using this machine for several years at least. Really happy with my decision to go with Lenovo.
city41 5y ago
I've had a lot of good luck with Lenovo. My personal Thinkpad is now 4 years old and I've had zero issues with it. I've always felt Lenovo's trackpads are really quite bad, but the current gen X1 Carbon (my work Thinkpad) has an excellent trackpad.
jhgb 5y ago
> The only issue I have with Linux is the quality of the hardware. Mac hardware is incredible. I have mac's still running from decades ago and used heavily. There doesn't seem to a contradiction there. I knew people who preferred Linux on Apple hardware. They were very happy with it.
shadowgovt 5y ago
It is, unfortunately (for Linux), not just the hardware. It's the vertical integration of whole ownership of the hardware and software. Apple's OS is designed to run on (and run) their hardware. There are abstraction-breaking software decisions made with the platform in mind (and vice-versa). To give a concrete example: the OS knows about the M1 Neural Engine and controls scheduling of jobs on it in a way intended to maximize perceived user experience.

kiwijamo 5y ago

I have a second-hand Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop and I've been very impressed with the build quality (even though my previous laptop was a Macbook so my standards were already quite high). It is also well specced technically, with everything I wanted e.g. USB-C power charging, decent CPU and a GPU easily capable of playing my favourite games. I can easily see myself using this machine for several years at least. Really happy with my decision to go with Lenovo.

city41 5y ago

I've had a lot of good luck with Lenovo. My personal Thinkpad is now 4 years old and I've had zero issues with it. I've always felt Lenovo's trackpads are really quite bad, but the current gen X1 Carbon (my work Thinkpad) has an excellent trackpad.

jhgb 5y ago

> The only issue I have with Linux is the quality of the hardware. Mac hardware is incredible. I have mac's still running from decades ago and used heavily. There doesn't seem to a contradiction there. I knew people who preferred Linux on Apple hardware. They were very happy with it.

shadowgovt 5y ago

It is, unfortunately (for Linux), not just the hardware. It's the vertical integration of whole ownership of the hardware and software. Apple's OS is designed to run on (and run) their hardware. There are abstraction-breaking software decisions made with the platform in mind (and vice-versa). To give a concrete example: the OS knows about the M1 Neural Engine and controls scheduling of jobs on it in a way intended to maximize perceived user experience.