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> I recently sold my Macbook, bought a Thinkpad, and am running NixOS full time, and I have to say that desktop Linux has gotten pretty excellent since the last

> I recently sold my Macbook, bought a Thinkpad, and am running NixOS full time, and I have to say that desktop Linux has gotten pretty excellent since the last time I ran it full-time. I'm using MBP with macOS since 2013 and I'm quite happy... don't need all that much speed (I upgraded my mbp2013 to MBP with M1 in 2021) but rather that it's "fast enough" and stable and is silent :) While I like Linux on the server I had weird issues with it on the desktop (network lost, not waking up…) so I'm a bit weary... though I fathom that my next machine will have Linux (most likely with ARM) but that's still 3-5 years in the future :)

tombert 2y ago
I had a 2019 i9 MacBook Pro, which I actually really liked, but it always had issues with thermal management, and I was afraid that Apple would stop supporting the Intel Macs in the near-ish future, so I wanted to replace it while it still had some eBay value. I bought the Macbook when I was still working at Apple, so I had a considerable discount at the time which I do not have anymore, and so I looked at other computers outside of Apple this time around. I'm really happy with my Thinkpad. It's pretty fast, light, one of the most pain-free Linux installs I've ever had, and reasonably priced. I'm not overly sold on the keyboard nipple but it's easy enough to ignore.
- ktosobcy 2y ago
  Mine was i5 and I had issues with thermals while connected to external display... turned out that over the years it accumulated so much dust that it was virtually clogged. Given it was way past over any warranty (it was around 2019) I opened it, cleaned it up and all heating issues went away :) When I got M1 I was on a fence with getting a linux machine but in the end the device was sponsored and ARM (cool and silent) won me over (I can't stand the nosie). I think that it's almost certain next machine will be Linux as apple and macOS are utterly annoying...

tombert 2y ago

I had a 2019 i9 MacBook Pro, which I actually really liked, but it always had issues with thermal management, and I was afraid that Apple would stop supporting the Intel Macs in the near-ish future, so I wanted to replace it while it still had some eBay value. I bought the Macbook when I was still working at Apple, so I had a considerable discount at the time which I do not have anymore, and so I looked at other computers outside of Apple this time around. I'm really happy with my Thinkpad. It's pretty fast, light, one of the most pain-free Linux installs I've ever had, and reasonably priced. I'm not overly sold on the keyboard nipple but it's easy enough to ignore.

ktosobcy 2y ago
Mine was i5 and I had issues with thermals while connected to external display... turned out that over the years it accumulated so much dust that it was virtually clogged. Given it was way past over any warranty (it was around 2019) I opened it, cleaned it up and all heating issues went away :) When I got M1 I was on a fence with getting a linux machine but in the end the device was sponsored and ARM (cool and silent) won me over (I can't stand the nosie). I think that it's almost certain next machine will be Linux as apple and macOS are utterly annoying...