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Ubuntu is really good these days. If you bought into the apple ecosystem with a recent Mac I’d not bother. But for those of your running a PC Ubuntu is incredi
by hit8run 2y ago
Ubuntu is really good these days.
If you bought into the apple ecosystem with a recent Mac I’d not bother. But for those of your running a PC Ubuntu is incredible and their new App Store makes finding and installing software super easy. My workstation pc with Ubuntu is insanely faster than my Mac Studio when it comes to jetbrains IDEs. It’s so snappy I first couldn’t believe the performance diff.
- vardump 2y agoHow would you install Ubuntu on an M1-M3 Macbook?
- rahen 2y agohttps://ubuntuasahi.org/ https://ubuntuasahi.org/
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- isodev 2y agoIf it were me, I’d sell my MacBook and get a max spec KDE Slimbook with 96GB RAM.
- addandsubtract 2y agoIf any other laptop had a trackpad like apple, with multi touch and gesture support, I would switch.
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- yoavm 2y agoLinux user for the past 20 years - I cannot remember the last laptop I had that didn't have multi touch and gestures support. been using mostly ThinkPads & Dells. I don't know what marketing team created this whole "our trackpad is so different" belief, but they've done a brilliant job!
- int_19h 2y agoMulti-touch per se has been pretty common even in tiny junk trackpads. The problem is that it's not particularly useful in that case. What makes Apple's trackpads so nice is a huge and solid surface. I came from Thinkpads myself and honestly didn't expect that to be as much of a thing as it turned out to be, but yes, they really are that much better. There are a few PC laptops these days with similar trackpads, but you definitely have to look for it when picking one.
- imjonse 2y agoIt has been for 20 years :) https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2004-September/000000.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2004-Septe...
- mikaelsouza 2y agoI don't mean to say your experience isn't real, but that isn't what I encountered at all with my last 12 years "waiting for Ubuntu to get good" (I am quoting myself here). Every time I tried to install it to test if it was good, something broke for no reason. This happened to me on many PCs and many versions of Ubuntu. The last time I tried 24.04, the installer crashed in the middle of the installation and I couldn't finish it. If someone wants to test Ubuntu, I'd say you should try it, but do not get surprised if something very basic seems broken since that's my entire experience with the distro. I'd recommend Fedora instead.
- zozbot234 2y agoDebian stands out as a Linux distribution that "just works" IME. Fedora isn't even all that bad, but the short support cycle can be problematic if you care about using it reliably in production. Debian doesn't have that issue, their "Stable" release is just rock solid. It can also be surprisingly snappy even on old, very low-end hardware where everything else (including every modern web browser) will visibly chug or not run at all.
- KaiserPro 2y agoI've been using linux since a long time (Redhat 5.2) Much as I like it, its not as convenient to use on a laptop as OSX, for every day things. Plus I like illustrator too much. For a workstation, yeah, anything with more than one processor/GPU will be super fast on ubuntu. But Gnome is a dick to use nowadays. very opinionated and an arse to configure.
- int_19h 2y agoLast time I tried Linux on a brand new laptop - around six months ago - the battery life was about 20% less than in Windows on that same hardware.