![]() Apple? Does anyone compile their own laptop kernel on apple? Common enough on linux because you can make your use as complicated as suits you in all the ways you can't on windows and apple. It's the only approach _possible_ with microsoft & apple.ĭoing fun stuff like re-writing the default kernel scheduler and putting a bug in there on linux is really just not a point against linux in any way when you can (a) choose not to do that and (b) can't choose that at all with windows. Something like this (fedora, debian are fine, I've heard arch is fine, no doubt others also) is the /only/ fair approach in comparison it to an apple or windows laptop. >Perhaps I too should transition to something like ubuntu, and just not worry about any of it :D And the package manager would be apt, brew, nix or flatpak depending on application. Lets be honest though, if I wasn't running NixOS I would probably run Ubuntu with whatever display and audio server they decided for me. My distro of choice wouldn't work as well (at all) without all "standards" (both real and implementation) that systemd and freedesktop puts forward.īack on topic, the Linux desktop is honestly quite great if you constrain yourself a bit (Run a stable distro with boring tech, no Nvidia) or live on the bleeding edge where things also work well but might require more maintenance. I don't particularly like either, so I like systemd.Ī good thing people often forget with Wayland, PipeWire and systemd is that they are making our ecosystem a bit less fragmented, which I see as a great win, especially since I'm a NixOS user, my system relies heavily on systemd being declarative. Systemd hate is either because you love the drama or you like bash scripts. Gnome or KDE is a preference, it doesn't matter much and they're cooperating on many Wayland extensions. The move to PipeWire made literally everything better for me (just works TM). ![]() I'm about as bleeding-edge as can be (always latest stable kernel with xanmod patches) from NixOS, using Wayland and PipeWire. I don't mean to shit on your argument, but most things are either just preferences or progress that isn't done yet. We need the old generation to die before systemd is accepted by everyone. Systemd vs $INITSYSTEM is also temporary, though on a longer timescale. Gnome vs KDE isn't really a thing, deb vs rpm isn't a thing, X vs Wayland is only a temporary thing, Pulse vs PipeWire isn't a thing, PipeWire implements pulse apis. I'd bet fedora, rhel/centos, debian, arch would all be just terrific if you prefer one of those (and why not?) I'd say just about /any/ distro will place nicely with the kernel-hackers laptop of choice. Buy apple if you really want/need to run apple software. Thinkpads, T-Series, X1 carbon are the best laptops on the market by a good margin and have been there in that spot consistently for a long time. When it's a couple of years old the hardware support is usually perfect on first install - but I guess I don't use garbage like fingerprint readers so ymmv on that kind of silliness. But it's also a very reasonable & justifiable decision to buy a new thinkpad imho. In all it's just a beautiful thing I'm very, very happy with. Gnome desktop is a thing I now find really polished and lovely to use. Meh, 8G & 250G would have been enough fwiw. I did shove in more ram and a bigger ssd. (power settings set to Power Saver in the very obvious gui menu above shutdown). ![]() T480s 3.5yrs old, out of warranty, ex-corporate cost me USD$430 running ubu 22.04 on a 4 core 8th gen core i5 & intel gfx is getting me 10 hours of battery life without having replaced the battery. They are about the easiest things to support, and they are fairly low priced. ![]() I think I had to provide tech support (unplug, wait, replug) once.įor low-tech family, I now recommend Chrome devices. Oh, the wifi at my grandfather's house is still the original Airport I setup 11 years ago. 8 years with a laptop is pretty great, especially considering it still does everything it's supposed to. I did an Apple service center battery replacement, and otherwise it performs as new. Likewise, my girlfriend daily drives my 2014 MBP which I used and abused around the world for years. (Of course it was no longer supported for OS upgrades, so that was the final reason to replace it). It was still functional when I replaced it with a Chrome desktop machine last year. But even Linux, using it as my own development environment, I would periodically have stupid stuff just mysteriously break and than require a lot of fiddling to get fixed.Īs for Apple reliability, I set my grandfather up with an iMac 11 years ago. I did that for years, and I learned that it truly sucks to have to fk around frequently with stupid stuff (usually Windows stuff). I'm too old and not of the right disposition to provide much tech support for people anymore. ![]()
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