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No, people just suffer in silence. There are famous Youtubers like MKBHD that more or less every year say: "The new iPad is great, the hardware is awesome, I
by oblio 3y ago
No, people just suffer in silence.
There are famous Youtubers like MKBHD that more or less every year say:
"The new iPad is great, the hardware is awesome, I use the iPad a ton, but I can't use it to replace a laptop because of the lack of file management/window management/...".
I have heard this text in similar forms for at least 3 years.
You can make do, but it is as awkward as you'd expect.
The only winning entity is Apple, that gets people to also buy laptops and to be even more locked into this crippled setup, since as you said, younger generations aren't as aware of the possibilities, anymore.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoI don’t think MacOS is a crippled system. Agreed that trying to use an iPad as a primary device is torture. But, compared to Windows, MacOS is comparably accommodating of my needs as a developer.
- rjzzleep 3y agoIs it though? I mean, I do remember the same, but I just booted into Win 11 after buying a GPD Win and it looks nice. Microsoft seems to have resigned itself to the fact that as a developer you should use WSL2. If you do any kind of docker related development you will inevitably install something similar to WSL2 using docker desktop or whatever. Technically it now supports native containers, but we're not there yet.
- nottorp 3y agoWSL2 is also a virtual machine isn't it? It virtualizes x86 linux on x86 windows, kinda seamlessly, but still that's all it is.
- rjzzleep 3y agoWhich is exactly what docker desktop on macOS does as well. Unless you're doing iOS or macOS development, contrary to common belief WSL2 is actually integrated better than it's mac counterparts. You can even mount other linux partitions into WSL.
- nottorp 3y agoDocker desktop is a piece of crap on macOS. It allocates half your ram for a linux VM and then allocates other linux VMs inside it. If you're doing servers, that's 7+ Gb of ram wasted since your work VMs will at most use hundreds of megabytes. I sure hope WSL does better :)
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoI like the MBP hardware. I think once I feel comfortable relying on Asahi it would be nice to run that instead of MacOS.
- icedchai 3y agoDocker desktop works fine. You can change the memory settings, you realize?
- nottorp 3y agoNo i don't realize anything. I had it on just to reproduce a backend and connect to it with my stuff for a while. I just copied whatever the linux (which doesn't have the same problem) backend had and did my work. Defaults matter. And wasteful defaults denote a certain mindset. Not a good one.
- icedchai 3y agoWith Docker on MacOS (and Windows), it needs to start a Linux VM so containers can run. This is transparent to the user. With Linux, they run natively, so no VM needed. VMs require an upfront memory allocation, so this is the reason for the difference. You could also Google "Mac Docker Desktop Memory" and look at the first link.
- nottorp 3y agoThere is no reason to preallocate 8 Gb though. I've explained how it works myself, but you rushed to justify their decision without reading my full post.
- oblio 3y agoI meant kids aren't even moving to full blown computers and stay on crippled touch platforms like the iPad.