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I’m a long-time advocate of using the best appliance (a Mac) to connect to a “real computer” (a linux-x86_64 build with an NVIDIA card in it). But the times ar
by benreesman 2y ago
I’m a long-time advocate of using the best appliance (a Mac) to connect to a “real computer” (a linux-x86_64 build with an NVIDIA card in it).
But the times are changing and paradoxically I have almost the opposite view in 2024 vs 2021.
Desktop Linux can render fonts really well now, you can generally play audio now, ditto 802.11 and BlueTooth and damn the drivers are just good now.
Conversely Apple gear is becoming a pretty credible threat as an on-tile HBM accelerator platform, and while I’m sick unto the death of getting my damned window border radius to me by people other than Steve Jobs himself, I want a Studio on my desk or a Pro sled in the closet, the Sillicon is just too good to ignore now, and the MLX people aren’t sleeping.
I care a lot about darwin-aarch64 now, and could give a fuck less about a windowing system worse than Windows.