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Hot?
Why does it have to be furries all the time…
Because the Venn diagram is a circle.
I’m using a new M3 MBP at work and it literally brought my compile time from 20+ minutes on a pretty beefy Windows machine down to about 6 minutes. Based on that alone, it’s hard to imagine using anything else for serious dev work at this point.
Having said that, there’s a lot of goofy Apple fuckery going on too. Multi-monitor support is limited to two displays, so if you want more than that you’re stuck with an expensive third-party dock and DisplayLink drivers, which cause color artifacting in high motion like you’d expect from a heavily compressed video, which leads to eye strain. Mouse support is terrible without a third party app to fix the goofy scroll wheel acceleration curve they’ve built in, and even buying first-party peripherals doesn’t solve it. I need a third party app just to prevent Mac OS from opening iTunes every time I connect a Bluetooth headset… So many little dumb things to deal with.
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noooo why is the text in the background i wanted to read that
I’ve read Xenia’s rant and agree with it 100%.The only thing missing is something about media servers and self-hosting.
You cannot fix me, for I am not broken.
You could also just put it on the old MacBook…
Christ, this image is like a 50-post long thread on Mastodon, etc: the worst possible choice of format/platform for that type of content.
“I have an essay to share, and I’m going to send it in snippets of a few hundred characters!” Why?
(Looking at you, Doctorow… 👀)
What ?
I hate Apple with passion, but my GF has a 2013 Macbook, that is still getting security updates and is totally usable.
I replaced the spinning hard drive a while ago with a fast SSD, while using Clonezilla to copy the content and partitions of the drive.
And you know what? It started like a rocket. It has an Intel CPU, but I don’t think installing Linux would have made it much better, especially UX wise.
MacOS is more than half the reason most people buy a Mac and not a cheap laptop.
Still nice meme tho. It’s way more relatable than I want to admit it.
Linux would provide you with security updates for a significantly longer time
Just imagine the concept of software updates that don’t care about the hardware.
That 2013 won’t be getting security updates anymore. Apple only tends to provide security updates for 10 years. I’d be cautious with that honestly.
There were no 2013 MacBooks with spinning disks, last year for that was 2012
Whoops! Then it is even older, you’re correct.
Then it’s a 2012 model.One of the best they ever made imo
The person reading this is cute
Awww, found it!
. >w<
Wait, that’s meee! :3
How dare u
No U!
No
Yuh uh!
I can’t believe you’ve done this
Not to get all Apple-apologia, but my wife’s old Macbook is still going strong for casual use (email, video streaming, web browsing) after nearly a decade.
Not really a badge of honor or anything, just that it takes a lot to bog down even substandard out of date hardware to a noticable degree if you don’t do a ton on it in the first place.
Did you install Linux on it tho :3
Btw might be a good idea to clean its fans and air vents, especially if it gets hot and/or slow fast
I’ve got a top-of-the-line 2015 Macbook Pro that works well today. I also don’t understand why Macbooks are held as mutually exclusive to Linux. They’re just a computer, plug in your bootable Linux USB and install it. I’ve got Linux on mine and it works decently.
Unfortunately that’s not really true since the M1 series, because there were no drivers for any of the custom Apple hardware. There is a purpose built Apple Sillicon distro but it doesn’t even run on M3 or M4 macs yet.
I personally like the aluminum case. It keeps them alive longer than plastic laptops.
On the inside its just like any other laptop except more solder points between the components (I used to do repair work on them). And they can sell more used since everyone wants to pay the apple tax.
The Framework laptop the fox talks about is also a metal case. With captive screws and easily replaceable/upgradeable components - and several generations of upgrades already available to build trust that they really do intend to support that upgradeabiliy over time.
my wife’s old Macbook is still going strong for casual use
As is the 500 dollar Acer laptop I bought in 2016 lol But yeah, my wife had wanted a MacBook Pro for a very long time. We finally had the money for it in 2019 so we got that laptop for her. In order to play games on it, I had to give her one of my Windows keys and learn how to set up Boot Camp. It’s actually a perfectly serviceable gaming laptop.
She loves it. It’s still holding up very well. But was it worth $2,700? Not to me. But then again, my '97 Honda probably isn’t worth the $2,700 I paid for it to her, either. I don’t understand why she wants overly expensive computers. She doesn’t understand why I want overly crappy cars. But we did say for better or worse so here we are lol
I have a MacBook Pro Mid-2011 still going. But it does not get any updates since years(even security ones).
I just updated a few 2011 iMacs to Monterey using this: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
They’re a bit more sluggish than they were on High Sierra, but everything works well enough. For some reason I couldn’t get the latest version to work but a previous one worked great (1.5 vs 2.2)
I put Sequoia on my 2011 MBP, but it felt like a step too far for the poor old gal. So I wiped the drive and put Mint on it. Runs nice. My 2014 Mini server is running Mint too.
I have one similar to that 😃 I have set up a dual boot with EndeavourOS to get security updates there
(Prepare partition in macOS by shrinking main and make a second FAT. You’ll change the file system to the correct one during installation of Linux. At reboot hold alt/option to choose which OS/USB-Stick to boot)
With the macOS, I want to try legacy patcher, but would have to kill my Linux in the process, so I did not try it yet…
Based fox.
NGL I bought a new MacBook (m1) as that arm processor is just killer. Still mis Linux on that machine though.
(I know about Asahi, but I haven’t heard about it’s current state in the last few years since it’s initial debut)
Asahi’s pretty decent now, so far as I’m concerned. They’ve still not cracked having more than one display, but otherwise I can’t think of anything I’ve not been able to do with it.
Maybe they want an Apple laptop because they want something that’s nice, runs major software, and doesn’t force the user to spend half their life in the command line.
People like this remind me of jerks driving around in lifted trucks and cars with loud exhausts calling everyone else a “pussy”. There’s nothing but insecurity that drives attitudes like this.
tbh this comment just goes to show that your knowledge of GNU/Linux is very outdated
There’s also a branding problem IF you want “normie” widespread adoption.
If the go to image of a Linux user is the fedora m’lady guy saying “so that’s you’re distro,huh”
Or the furry tallsocks wall of text customize to the n-th degree person,
The normie will never align.
You might like that, from a social perspective, but even saying “your knowledge is outdated” is funny because most folks have little to no knowledge of their Mac either, they just know it “just works” for their mainline usage.
In the past I just recommended and helped set up Linux Mint to soneone new.
Nowadays I almost always go with Universalblue’s Bluefin
Of course it doesn’t. But if it makes you feel better to make things up about someone you disagree with, I can’t stop you.
i mean, for you to spend “half your life” in the command line, you’d have to be on a quite terminal intensive path? There are quite a lot of less intimidating Gui’s and on no distro I’ve ever been on has there been that much need for terminal.
Hell, after installing arch it still ran fine and I could get all my gui’s, without much terminal fuss (after installing in pure terminal)
It’s an incredibly useful tool, but not that needed for everyday use.
runs major software
You’d probably want to go for Windows in that case? There’s plenty of software that doesn’t have a MacOS version.
At this point, with proton/wine more major software works on Linux than Mac OS.
Windows doesn’t run Xcode. macOS does run Office.
How many people choose Xcode over other IDEs though? Or are there some things that you can only do in Xcode?
Building i(Pad)OS apps. Xcode sucks ass, but you have to use it for that, sadly.
Lol, advocating windows. I guess it could get worse than the OP’s post.
I was just comparing it to MacOS, and using it as a reply to the comment that MacOS “runs major software and doesn’t force the user to spend half their life in the command line”, which I interpreted to mean an OS that a mainstream user would be comfortable with. Windows fits that description better than MacOS does. I’m not advocating for using Windows instead of Linux or anything like that.
People who buy Macs are typically not buying it because they’re gamers.
Can we not just have fun and talk shit about something? It’s not that serious. I own a Mac even (it was inherited though).
Xenia should have been our official mascot. C’mon, Linus, make it happen. The penguin is boring.
Sex sells, Linus.
It’s not even that. The character is a transgender furry. It pretty much represents what Linux is. You have the freedom to modify it and customize it to make it whatever you want it to be and make it yours.
