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Price isn't the thing that keeps most people I know away from Macbooks (after all, it's the employers/business expense). I'm sure many people would like an M1 m
by eertami 4y ago
Price isn't the thing that keeps most people I know away from Macbooks (after all, it's the employers/business expense). I'm sure many people would like an M1 machine for the efficiency but the software is simply not ideal.
If they invested in contributing Linux drivers they'd probably be able to takeover the market for developers. Asahi is slowly improving, but it doesn't feel ready yet to be someone's sole daily machine.
Ultimately my M1 MBP sits on the shelf collecting dust, except for occasional testing. My smaller and lighter Intel laptop already gets 8 hours of battery life which is more than enough for me, and has perfect Linux support.
- brailsafe 4y agoI suppose you mostly know ppl who run linux as their primary os then? Certainly in web dev all macs have been extremely popular.
- varispeed 4y agoAs someone who uses Linux daily and generally dislikes macOS, I got all my Linux tools up and running on macOS, Docker runs well and many Linux things I run on an external cluster. So I am content. The macOS UI is bit annoying and the fact that you have to install tiny apps like to have a separate trackpad and mouse scrolling direction is not ideal, but yeah it's all dwarfed by the fact I finally can't hear any fans and performance is just as good as plugged in. I can't remember when I last time had a laptop on a sofa without having to worry about the charger and getting laps uncomfortably hot.
- Bellyache5 4y agoYou don’t need separate apps to set scrolling directions for the trackpad and external nice. It’s all in System Preferences.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoThey're separate tickboxes yes, but if you tick one it ticks the other. At least it did when I still used macOS on portables. Now I only have a mini left for work
- BigJ1211 4y agoI just checked on my work Macbook, this is still correct and utterly stupid behaviour. 'Natural scroll direction' is global for all pointer devices. Internal, external trackpad and mouse.
- KptMarchewa 4y agoThe toggle bundles trackpad and scrolling setting in one - I want to have their "natural scroll direction" on trackpad and reverse on mice. Scroll reverser allows you to set them up separately.
- brailsafe 4y agoI've never used Linux daily, always macOS or osx, but all the same tooling probably day to day and the M series will be a no-brainer upgrade when it comes time. I would like some more colours that aren't super fingerprinty in the pro line though. Pretty bored of silver and grey
- tmccrary55 4y agoIf they added some kind of Bootcamp for Developers, I'd switch to a MBP tomorrow. And I just bought a maxed out XPS 13 Plus, which I generally like.