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just my 2cents, I have moved back to MacOS once M1 macs were released and have been using macbook air with m1 as my daily driver device ever since. I wasn't re
by neoromantique 4y ago
just my 2cents, I have moved back to MacOS once M1 macs were released and have been using macbook air with m1 as my daily driver device ever since.
I wasn't really having any problems per se, window management on macos is a bit lacking and I'm not fond of the forced animations everywhere, but overall I was pretty happy with how everything functions.
Until few weeks ago I had free time and an adventurous mood to try out the Asahi (It's really painless to do so), and the moment I git clone'd my dotfiles and logged into my old i3 configuration I was very astounded by the sheer snappiness of everything, fingers remember all the shortcuts and all of the workspace switching is /instant/. That's something I have tried to replicate on MacOS multiple times and always failed, yabai and the like are not even close.
I still reboot into macos for when I'm mobile as I don't trust sleep on asahi (I don't think it even works that is), but when I use it at home I am very impressed by how stable and daily drive-able it is if current (admittedly, significant) compromises work for you.
- minton 4y agoAre you dual booting your M1?
- neoromantique 4y agoYes, that's default mode of installation for asahi
- howinteresting 4y agoThis is why I'm tempted to try Asahi. After a decade of using macOS full time the idea of ever using it again makes me want to run to the woods, and Windows is only a little better. The Macs do seem quite powerful, though I expect the AMD laptops coming out this year to rival them. BTW, many professionals like and use a highly customized setup which only Linux can offer. This is true in other fields too. See, for example, Euroracks.