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Curious - what do you do on your Linux (or FreeBSD natch) box that your m1 couldn’t?

bigyabai 1y ago
I'm surprised that anyone has to ask, anymore: - Locked, proprietary bootloader with no guaranteed Linux support - No official Vulkan drivers, DXVK broken without downstream patches (unlike every other GPU I own) - Every Docker solution runs worse than WSL (somehow) - macOS is ad-ridden and genuinely intolerable - APFS is borderline useless relative to EXT4 and NTFS, doubly so if you collaborate at work
- spicybbq 1y ago
  What I get from this is a description of how it is locked down, but not really an explanation of what you wish to do but cannot.
  - bigyabai 1y ago
    I'm so sorry, can you attempt to infer based on the clues I've left you?
    - deleted 11mo ago
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    - spicybbq 11mo ago
      Maybe try having a conversation instead of being so defensive.
- vessenes 1y ago
  So, gaming and x64 native docker? I presume collaboration at work means some sort of remote mounting of filesystems -- is `brew install samba` bad in some way? Re: ads - this is genuinely my complaint with Windows, but I thought I was getting a pretty ad-free experience in Mac, what am I missing?
- undeveloper 1y ago
  .. macOS is ad-ridden? perhaps I'm already brain broken, but beyond like a few ads for icloud pro for time machine or whatever when I'm already poking around in relavent settings, I never see ads. it feels extremely unobtrusive. the other points are not relevant to me, so I suppose it makes sense why I don't care, but iirc apple's `container` OCI runner is highly optimized for the M series, did you have significant issues with it?
Philpax 1y ago
For me, it's always been the lack of a power-user-friendly windowing/workspace scheme. You can approximate a tiling window manager using yabai or similar solutions, but it's just not the same thing. I love using the MacBooks, but the OS just doesn't feel like it was designed for me, and that would be OK, but I have limited alternatives if I want all of the hardware to keep working. Also, yes, gaming, but that's less important to me.

I'm surprised that anyone has to ask, anymore: - Locked, proprietary bootloader with no guaranteed Linux support - No official Vulkan drivers, DXVK broken without downstream patches (unlike every other GPU I own) - Every Docker solution runs worse than WSL (somehow) - macOS is ad-ridden and genuinely intolerable - APFS is borderline useless relative to EXT4 and NTFS, doubly so if you collaborate at work

spicybbq 1y ago
What I get from this is a description of how it is locked down, but not really an explanation of what you wish to do but cannot.
- bigyabai 1y ago
  I'm so sorry, can you attempt to infer based on the clues I've left you?
  - deleted 11mo ago
    [deleted]
  - spicybbq 11mo ago
    Maybe try having a conversation instead of being so defensive.
vessenes 1y ago
So, gaming and x64 native docker? I presume collaboration at work means some sort of remote mounting of filesystems -- is `brew install samba` bad in some way? Re: ads - this is genuinely my complaint with Windows, but I thought I was getting a pretty ad-free experience in Mac, what am I missing?
undeveloper 1y ago
.. macOS is ad-ridden? perhaps I'm already brain broken, but beyond like a few ads for icloud pro for time machine or whatever when I'm already poking around in relavent settings, I never see ads. it feels extremely unobtrusive. the other points are not relevant to me, so I suppose it makes sense why I don't care, but iirc apple's `container` OCI runner is highly optimized for the M series, did you have significant issues with it?

Philpax 1y ago

For me, it's always been the lack of a power-user-friendly windowing/workspace scheme. You can approximate a tiling window manager using yabai or similar solutions, but it's just not the same thing. I love using the MacBooks, but the OS just doesn't feel like it was designed for me, and that would be OK, but I have limited alternatives if I want all of the hardware to keep working. Also, yes, gaming, but that's less important to me.