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Me too. I really wish I could buy a Samsung Galaxy Book Go 360 which is ARM and has amazing battery life, and install Ubuntu on it, but I don't think there's a

by dheera 4y ago

Me too. I really wish I could buy a Samsung Galaxy Book Go 360 which is ARM and has amazing battery life, and install Ubuntu on it, but I don't think there's a known possible way to do so. I really want a competent, high-end ARM Ubuntu laptop to happen. The Pinebook Pro has shitty specs and looks like shit with the 90s-sized inset bezels and 1080p screen.

jacquesm 4y ago
Likewise, I'd be on that for sure. Right now I'm using older MacBook Air's running Ubuntu as my daily drivers and a big dell at the home office for other work. Longer battery life and something like the Galaxy Book Go would definitely make me happy.
- dheera 4y ago
  Ubuntu on MacBook M1 is a horrible experience. Screen tearing and lots of other issues.
  - jacquesm 4y ago
    Yes, I'm not touching that until it is at least a few more years older. Being on the bleeding edge doesn't pay off if you just need stuff to work.
  - ParetoOptimal 4y ago
    M1 with NixOS through VMware is my daily driver because they have graphics sorted out well enough. Otherwise I'd just use qemu. I'm happy to say I forget i'm even on a Mac.
    - jacquesm 4y ago
      That's a nice trick!
chaxor 4y ago
I just spent a lot of time looking around for a laptop that had good battery life to develop on (i.e. ssh). I eventually went with the MacBook pro with M2 because - *it actually is amazing*. It lasts for like 3-5 days of all day use in typical vim/firefox use for me on a single charge. I debated going with a system 76, falcon Northwest TLX, etc for more power and x86 such that archlinux would be more compatible, but most laptops with x86 processors only have ~1-2 hours with a dGPU or maybe ~<10 hours with windows as the os (~drops significantly with Linux typically). It's unfortunate, but x86 is really awful in this area - so I went for ARM, and the best ARM based computer i could find (aluminum chassis / great durability) is the M2 based MacBook pro (slightly larger battery than the air). What's nice is it completely beat out my expectations. I have a nice and fairly new desktop with an i7 on arch. My desktop takes 12 minutes to compile duckdb. The M2? 6 minutes. Color me impressed. Just got it recently, and I'm looking forward to sourcing Asahi Linux on it tomorrow. Along with Linus' recent push to Linux kernel from the M2, I think it's likely that a very large portion of Linux users will be using apple silicon soon.
- dheera 4y ago
  Yeah this doesn't work for me. I develop with a lot of sensors and hardware and drivers are a pain in the ass. I have a box of 30 cameras and exactly zero work on Mac. Also, fuck Mac keyboards, I can't develop with them, and the constant quacking noises and spinning beachballs that I have to meditate to while I have absolutely NO idea what's causing the delay. Even Alt+Tab doesn't work correctly, tiling shortcuts don't work consistently, and sending bytes over USB HID API to switch logitech devices isn't reliable either. (I own zero Macs, all of my personal machines are Linux, I was given a Mac M1 for work and it's inefficient as hell, productivity-wise.)

by dheera 4y ago

jacquesm 4y ago

Likewise, I'd be on that for sure. Right now I'm using older MacBook Air's running Ubuntu as my daily drivers and a big dell at the home office for other work. Longer battery life and something like the Galaxy Book Go would definitely make me happy.

dheera 4y ago
Ubuntu on MacBook M1 is a horrible experience. Screen tearing and lots of other issues.
- jacquesm 4y ago
  Yes, I'm not touching that until it is at least a few more years older. Being on the bleeding edge doesn't pay off if you just need stuff to work.
- ParetoOptimal 4y ago
  M1 with NixOS through VMware is my daily driver because they have graphics sorted out well enough. Otherwise I'd just use qemu. I'm happy to say I forget i'm even on a Mac.
  - jacquesm 4y ago
    That's a nice trick!

chaxor 4y ago

I just spent a lot of time looking around for a laptop that had good battery life to develop on (i.e. ssh). I eventually went with the MacBook pro with M2 because - *it actually is amazing*. It lasts for like 3-5 days of all day use in typical vim/firefox use for me on a single charge. I debated going with a system 76, falcon Northwest TLX, etc for more power and x86 such that archlinux would be more compatible, but most laptops with x86 processors only have ~1-2 hours with a dGPU or maybe ~<10 hours with windows as the os (~drops significantly with Linux typically). It's unfortunate, but x86 is really awful in this area - so I went for ARM, and the best ARM based computer i could find (aluminum chassis / great durability) is the M2 based MacBook pro (slightly larger battery than the air). What's nice is it completely beat out my expectations. I have a nice and fairly new desktop with an i7 on arch. My desktop takes 12 minutes to compile duckdb. The M2? 6 minutes. Color me impressed. Just got it recently, and I'm looking forward to sourcing Asahi Linux on it tomorrow. Along with Linus' recent push to Linux kernel from the M2, I think it's likely that a very large portion of Linux users will be using apple silicon soon.

dheera 4y ago
Yeah this doesn't work for me. I develop with a lot of sensors and hardware and drivers are a pain in the ass. I have a box of 30 cameras and exactly zero work on Mac. Also, fuck Mac keyboards, I can't develop with them, and the constant quacking noises and spinning beachballs that I have to meditate to while I have absolutely NO idea what's causing the delay. Even Alt+Tab doesn't work correctly, tiling shortcuts don't work consistently, and sending bytes over USB HID API to switch logitech devices isn't reliable either. (I own zero Macs, all of my personal machines are Linux, I was given a Mac M1 for work and it's inefficient as hell, productivity-wise.)