alt Hacker NewsThe problem is that right now I have to choose the lesser of 2 evils. I hate what W11 has become. I only use it for games at the moment and the only reason is that some games Apex/BF6 do not run under proton because of their anticheat.
And I also hate what modern Macos is heading towards. I'm still ignoring/canceling the update on both my devices for the new "glass" interface.
And a thinkpad running Linux is just not doing it for me. I want my power efficient mac hardware.
Truth be told I just want to have my mbp running Linux. But right now it's not yet where it needs to be and I am most certainly not smart enough to help build it :(
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> And a thinkpad running Linux is just not doing it for me. I want my power efficient mac hardware.
Are you talking about the battery? I bought a T16 AMD a month ago with the 86Wh battery and it lasts between 8 and 12 hour depending on the usage. Not as much as a macbook but enough to not worry too much about it. New intel ones are supposed to be much better on power efficiency.
It's off course one level bellow on the mac on that regard (and others maybe too), but if you want to use linux I think the trade-off is worth it.
> And a thinkpad running Linux is just not doing it for me. I want my power efficient mac hardware.
I'm using a decade old thinkpad running linux and it is definitely 'doing it for me'. And I'm not exactly a light user. Power efficient mac hardware should be weighed against convenience and price. The developer eco-system on Linux is lightyears ahead of the apple one, I don't understand why developers still use either Windows or the Mac because I always see them struggle with the simplest things that on Linux you don't even realize could be a problem.
Other OSs feel like you're always in some kind of jailbreak mode working around artificial restrictions. But sure, it looks snazzy, compared to my chipped battle ax.