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I stopped hunting and just started buying MacBooks and I’ve been pretty happy for the last 10-odd years and generally regretful of any other laptop purchase I m

I stopped hunting and just started buying MacBooks and I’ve been pretty happy for the last 10-odd years and generally regretful of any other laptop purchase I made in the meantime. Lenovo did themselves a disservice by discontinuing the W15 which I thought was worth a solid shot until they started putting spyware in everything.

prmoustache 1y ago
Problem from a linux user or developer perspective is they come with a subpar OS.
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- seanmcdirmid 1y ago
  Developers love MacBooks. I think it’s 90% of the programmer work laptops out there.
  - prmoustache 1y ago
    "linux developer" The author of linked post is a KDE dev.
- philodeon 1y ago
  You can put Asahi Linux on them.
  - linkage 1y ago
    For all intents and purposes, the Asahi project is dead
    - aclindsa 1y ago
      Why is this (I've probably just missed it, but this is the first I'm hearing this)?
      - linkage 1y ago
        The lead dev, Hector Martin (marcan), stepped down a few months ago after a row with Linus about a few kernel patches. Other high profile devs also left the project shortly thereafter. Asahi doesn't work on M4-series Macs and it doesn't look like anyone will be able to make it work in the next few months at least.
vlod 1y ago
As a linux user I hate this. I know 100% that the MacbookPro (16'', m4 whatnot) is probably the best developer notebook out there, but I just can't feel good giving Apple my money. Until recently I was a die-hard macbook-er, but Apple has turned evil (look at iOS, there's another article on HN about iOS browsers are still webkit based, even though EU has apparently slapped their wrists or Airpod buds which are closed to developers (Zuck was complaining about this recently)). So I use a Thinkpad Carbon, Linux and hope RISC-V will come from on high one of these days.

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I stopped hunting and just started buying MacBooks and I’ve been pretty happy for the last 10-odd years and generally regretful of any other laptop purchase I m

by aetherspawn 1y ago

prmoustache 1y ago
Problem from a linux user or developer perspective is they come with a subpar OS.
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- seanmcdirmid 1y ago
  Developers love MacBooks. I think it’s 90% of the programmer work laptops out there.
  - prmoustache 1y ago
    "linux developer" The author of linked post is a KDE dev.
- philodeon 1y ago
  You can put Asahi Linux on them.
  - linkage 1y ago
    For all intents and purposes, the Asahi project is dead
    - aclindsa 1y ago
      Why is this (I've probably just missed it, but this is the first I'm hearing this)?
      - linkage 1y ago
        The lead dev, Hector Martin (marcan), stepped down a few months ago after a row with Linus about a few kernel patches. Other high profile devs also left the project shortly thereafter. Asahi doesn't work on M4-series Macs and it doesn't look like anyone will be able to make it work in the next few months at least.
vlod 1y ago
As a linux user I hate this. I know 100% that the MacbookPro (16'', m4 whatnot) is probably the best developer notebook out there, but I just can't feel good giving Apple my money. Until recently I was a die-hard macbook-er, but Apple has turned evil (look at iOS, there's another article on HN about iOS browsers are still webkit based, even though EU has apparently slapped their wrists or Airpod buds which are closed to developers (Zuck was complaining about this recently)). So I use a Thinkpad Carbon, Linux and hope RISC-V will come from on high one of these days.