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I have never needed to restart ALSA, but I agree that it can be a bit rougher around the edges. Bluetooth is flakey everywhere, but I do seem to encounter more "edge cases" in Linux than my Mac.

If you can live with the rough edges, I find the general experience with applications or my printer suddenly being incompatible under MacOS for "reasons" is much less of an issue under Linux.

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blt5y ago· 1 in thread

Agree that Mac OS backwards compatibility is atrocious!

I think another big challenge for Linux is battery life and sleep/wake on laptops. Last time I considered replacing Mac OS with Ubuntu on my laptop, I got scared away by reports that battery life would decrease by half.

happymellonOP5y ago

My Lenovo laptop gets better battery life under Linux than it did under Windows, and I've generally found the battery life estimations (for my use cases anyway) to be complete bullshit even under MacOS.

I'm excited to be able to upgrade to the M1 series Mac's as it sounds like I might actually get battery life, though I have the 2019 16" Pro and can't justify the upgrade just yet, even if that thing overheats with just a Slack video.

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