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0 pointsvessenes4mo ago0 comments

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

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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.

bigyabai4mo 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

spicybbq4mo 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.

bigyabai4mo ago

I'm so sorry, can you attempt to infer based on the clues I've left you?

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vessenesOP4mo 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?

undeveloper4mo 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?

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Philpax4mo 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.

bigyabai4mo 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

spicybbq4mo 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.

bigyabai4mo ago

I'm so sorry, can you attempt to infer based on the clues I've left you?

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vessenesOP4mo 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?

undeveloper4mo ago

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