Got one for my wife here in Canada recently, where it's on a similarly good sale. It's a nicely put together piece of _hardware_ and firmware, way way better t

Got one for my wife here in Canada recently, where it's on a similarly good sale. It's a nicely put together piece of _hardware_ and firmware, way way better than the garbage Dell laptops I have to use for work, which are heavy and hot and regularly fail to manage basic things like customizing sleep/wake behavior… … but I personally am completely unwilling to use a Mac unless I'm getting paid and forced to. I hate MacOS. I hate the UI, I hate the fiddly little ways that it hides information about real file paths and makes it unnecessarily difficult to uncover the tall ones. I hate hate hate all the broken stuck-in-the-80s non-GNU CLI tools, and the kludged-together stupidness of the networking stack compared to Linux. Windows 11 is arguably worse than MacOS in many of these ways, but Linux with a Gnome or Cinnamon or XFCE desktop is far far better. I hate the lack of full-size USB ports and HDMI. I don't care if it makes the laptop 3 mm thicker. I want them, in particular to be able to plug in my Logitech wireless mouse adapter and all my 10-15-year-old USB devices which still work fine. I hate the keyboard and trackpad. I want a pointing stick and a trackpad with physical buttons. I want page up/down buttons and separate delete/backspace.