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I've used windows for 30+ years, and I'm getting a Mac this year. I seriously considered Linux on a Thinkpad and even test-drove Debian on my older X1 Carbon. I

I've used windows for 30+ years, and I'm getting a Mac this year. I seriously considered Linux on a Thinkpad and even test-drove Debian on my older X1 Carbon. I tried, but too many things didn't quite work. I'd get stuck on the login screen for no apparent reason. VMware modules were a pain to build and sign. Something (might have been VMware modules) caused it to freeze. Hidpi support isn't ready. And nothing was really polished.

ge96 2y ago
Used Carbon x1s are such a great buy, $200 you get 1440p i7 16gb ram only problem is batteries but yeah works great on Ubuntu in my experience
- dehrmann 2y ago
  Sounds like my 6th Gen X1, only I replaced the battery last fall. I also noticed the display glitches sometimes when I open it, and the USB-C ports have connection issues sometimes.
janfoeh 2y ago
As someone who has used OSX for .. 21 years now and is slowly, but surely moving off: the grass is not greener on the other side. Bugs aplenty, a user interface which has seriously deteriorated over the last decade bundled with an ever-increasing user hostility and tendency to lock you out of your system. One example: you can no longer manage which applications may run as daemons/background tasks. Any application can register itself with the OS to do so, and your only recourse is a little tiny switch in the system preferences. Only, in the case of Google Chrome this does not work; the application constantly re-registers itself, overriding the setting. I can no longer prevent Chrome from doing whatever the hell it wants to do, and — adding insult to injury — every time it does, I get a persistent notification from macOS that it is now doing what ever the hell it wants to do. About a dozen times a day.
- mycall 2y ago
  Is there some .dylib or .so file that runs the Chrome registration.. chmod that file and maybe it will stop doing that.

ge96 2y ago

Used Carbon x1s are such a great buy, $200 you get 1440p i7 16gb ram only problem is batteries but yeah works great on Ubuntu in my experience

dehrmann 2y ago
Sounds like my 6th Gen X1, only I replaced the battery last fall. I also noticed the display glitches sometimes when I open it, and the USB-C ports have connection issues sometimes.

janfoeh 2y ago

As someone who has used OSX for .. 21 years now and is slowly, but surely moving off: the grass is not greener on the other side. Bugs aplenty, a user interface which has seriously deteriorated over the last decade bundled with an ever-increasing user hostility and tendency to lock you out of your system. One example: you can no longer manage which applications may run as daemons/background tasks. Any application can register itself with the OS to do so, and your only recourse is a little tiny switch in the system preferences. Only, in the case of Google Chrome this does not work; the application constantly re-registers itself, overriding the setting. I can no longer prevent Chrome from doing whatever the hell it wants to do, and — adding insult to injury — every time it does, I get a persistent notification from macOS that it is now doing what ever the hell it wants to do. About a dozen times a day.

mycall 2y ago
Is there some .dylib or .so file that runs the Chrome registration.. chmod that file and maybe it will stop doing that.