​@@banddy1376 have you take a look of the track record of those companies?

have you not noticed garbage scrolling on safari, on simple pages like UKposts, or amazon, this seems to be a Big Sur issue, as any version of Mac OS before it is buttery smooth on safari, let me know your thoughts on that

I got a notification someone replied but I can't see the reply

UKposts shennanigans I guess. Anyway, I didn't encounter that issue

@@henriquemiranda5748 just checked youre right but I rarely use safari, I use Chrome...mine is MBP 2019 Catalina its probably how Safari is built on it... but I hear consistently is Safari on Mac is mostly recommended if you want to save battery life

It was so random

4 hours ago: "Upgrading T430"

@WolframaticAlpha can confirm

He's evolving, just backwards

he's got a new girlfriend

@Farb S I didn't mean only apple laptops.

Just throw your trash in the water, this earth is our fucking playground. Other people don't matter. The future will have to just deal with it.

I think who you give money for the tool is important. Supporting apple is not a good thing.

Yeah it's your choice.

Tools they are, certainly, but generally better as tools for some other activities than the one you suggest.

I personally have an M2 MacBook Air and gotta say, that thing has the performance exceeding my Ryzen 7 3700X PC in terms of single-core tasks which as a web dev are the main priority for me. And before you start asking me why M2 and not the cheaper M1 here's the reason - M2's efficiency cores are literally twice as fast as in the M1 and I simply use power-saving mode outside the docking station all the time.

i’ve had a 2010 and 2015 mbp. both (intel core) have already been superior to everything else on the market back then. especially regarding efficiency due to the optimized os. people need to realize that macs would just be pretty things w/o the os. but they don’t. they recommend “linux on the laptop”. laughable.

@@shapelessed U can still run Linux in Parallels extremely well, the performance is near-native in my experience.

@@shapelessed efficiency cores twice as fast but 256gb hard drive is half the speed!

7 or 8 years until apple decides to cut support. Then it's basically paperweight

What games can you play on macos?

@@zethcubegamer5275 FFXIV, Subnautica, OSRS, and a few others I can’t remember off the top of my head. Steam has a filter for Mac compatible games the same way Linux does

@@zethcubegamer5275 adding to the list by @AlibifortheAfterlife: Slay the Spire, CSGO 2, DOTA 2, Hades and others running through Wine, so there is choice

Pragmatism would include all factors about the company Apple and why one shouldn't buy any product from them - unless one has sociopath and evil intentions.

@ElMariachi google isn't any better

@@oo--7714 Google for sure isn't any 'good'. But no other enterprise does intentionally and openly build products with planned obsolescence, integrated chips to actively prevent repairs and then is trying to abuse jurisdiction to even forbid repairs. And this is only on top of all the 'usual' stuff that hugee enterprises do. Not even to speak of what they did to the world, by introducing bullshit technologies that is proven to make humans stupid, like smartphones, technology that's build by pure visual desing criteria instead of quality and resource conservation, like their instant death too thin notebooks, their tight relations to Foxconn where suicide is normal like lunch because of terrible working conditions, them stealing more ideas then any other enterprise ever and selling these idead as their own, breeding generations of brainless zombies that don't even have an idea of what making own decisions based on facts means and instead just always stay with Apple without any logical reasoning, selling them actual crap (watch Louis Rossman..) for insanly exaggerated prices and dozens of issues more. Crapple IS the dark empire. And so it's all about completely avoiding shit where it's possible and chosing the lessr evil where it's not possible.

@@oo--7714 Google let's you repair your own device, lock and relock your bootloader, modify the OS (or replace it entirely) and sideload applications I'd say that's just a tad better

>pragmatic Idk, he doesn't like tiling window managers

I would kill for a RISC-V laptop! Man that'd be so fun to mess with!

This is the real dream.

Yep, the real bright future

It's not only a hardware thing though... Microsoft apparently can't come up with a decent ARM OS

If MS doesn't fumble Windows 11's ARM version and they lead the way with a competitive Surface laptop, I can see other vendors following the trend for fear of being left behind. They just need a real equivalent to Rosetta to allow a user to run x86 software without excessive pain. Once those ARM laptops are out there, it's just a matter of the Linux community doing their thing.

Framework wont last long. All that upgradability is recipe for disaster. Those soldered ram modules and memory sticks are for a reason. I have seen folks permanantly damage memory slots due to incorrectly seated module, smoke coming from contacts of M2 drive which was put in a laptop without powering it down correctly. Etc. So the more removable contact points you have on a system, the higher the chances for failure. Also it comes down to system and bios compatibility. You cant shoehorn ddr4 ram if the entire processor, motherboard and subsystems dont recognise DDR4. So a time will come when the framework laptop hits its upper limit of upgradeability like the old thinkpad showcased at the beginning of the video.

​@@anandmehta2323so why is none of the stuff in my PC soldered?

@@roidlsebastian Because its cheap and designed to fail anyways after about 3 yrs. I own laptops like that. Failed a month after warranty expired and repair cost 50% of new laptop cost. I have two here I can gift someone - not that they are of any use.

@@anandmehta2323 Mine is 9 years old and works flawlessly without ever having any faults.

​@@anandmehta2323 If that's the case, we should just throw anyway custom desktops then. Have no prebuilts, have no desktops, just go all in completely soldered. Your point of framework products failing because of their upgradability is extremely flawed. The reason why soldered laptops are popular is because it's much cheaper to produce compared to having everything modular. It's much cheaper to have one factory building everything all in one go than to have multiple for different modules. Also laptops are an all in one package so for many manufacturers, it really doesn't make sense to make everything modular. Lenovo saw that not many are upgrading their cpus so they just remove that upgradability path. They did not remove it because it cause harm. They also didn't have a real plan on how to deal with excess CPU modules nor do they build their products on complete modularity. Framework, on the other hand, has a plan for extra CPU modules and built their laptops from the ground up with sustainability and modularity in mind so the two companies can't really be compared equally. As for upgrading ram and other components, I never seen anyone break their laptop from upgrading. If a person is upgrading their laptops, they already have some knowledge of computing and probably already know and researched their laptop. If not, that's really on them but that doesn't mean the product is a flop. Even then, upgrading or replacing any component on framework's laptop is easier compared to other modular laptops. Each component in framework's laptops has labels and qr codes pointing to instructions online.

First time I heard the term Apple hostage 😅 As a mobile developer (Android) I'm in a similar position... Every project I join in every company I end up with a MacBook so both iOS and Android team match in equipment 🤡

Apple hostage is such an appropriate term. I am far from a fanboy, and I hate that I love the ecosystem. To their credit, if anyone else replicated Apple’s ecosystem, they’d probably end up implementing nearly identical practices.

Hostage and victim of Apple. Yeah and No company is your friend, true friends doesn’t require you vote them by your money; the true friend need your care and help

@@theod0r distrotube

@Вероника Заглотова who =/= what

​@@theod0r dlouis trossmann, the famous right-to-repair advocate, non-apple-authorized repair technician, and real estate tv show host

DT is corny, Wolfgang is a solid dude

DT or Luke Smith, let's gooooooooooooooo.

MacOS 11 works just fine for a Linux User. I don't see the need to use Asahi Linux.

@@Alejandro-vp1op because Macos is proprietary

@@liamsweeney4754 change os doesn't quite solve that problem thou

@@Alejandro-vp1op the point of the videos is most lapto hardware sucks, and the M1 macbooks don't... (mostly).

@@liamsweeney4754 Yep, so, is it that a problem? A Linux user like me is not always here for the philosophy, but there's a tech component that MacOS also has

I just view it as fun lol. I enjoy comparing and understanding the relative merits of and design philosophies behind different tools, like laptops and programming languages

@@Tevqoon Plenty :)

Some things are objectively *inferior* though, such as the same hardware being 3x more expensive and so locked down that it may as well be an *actual* jail ...

@@3nertia if cost is your own concern, you wouldn’t like macs even if it’s open source. You just have a religious affiliation to price to performance ratio. You don’t really care about performance/watt for mobile devices

@@RunForPeace-hk1cu And you haven't a clue what I care about ...

Actually, they have! Been daily driving Asahi Linux on my M1 Macbook Air for the past half year, it's been great!

@@aspectxyz How's the battery life of linux on m1? I have a MBA m2 and really frustrated about OSX. I just find Asahi to be a little bit incomplete at this point.

@@adonespitogonaif I use all the major three - Windows on a PC, Linux on RPI4 server and MacOS on my M2 MacBook and I would never trade MacOS for linux. Why is that? Because every time you need to actually do some work on it, something randomly breaks and then I have to spend 2 hours just on fixing it. MacOS just gets out of the way completely and you do you...

@@adonespitogonaif I get around 7 hours with light usage i.e. coding, browsing.

​@@aspectxyz May I ask whether all I/O and GPU support works now? Which bugs did you encounter?

well, sure. Right now, M1 runs fast. That's not because apple is somehow revolutionary or anything - it's simply that Apple ported their OS to ARM first. Give it a few more years, and all laptops will be ARM, and then apple will be one of the ones with worse hardware again.

Right? Bought my first mac a couple years ago, the m1 air, and it is so silent and portable.

@@iFireender well, first we need that to happen. Until then it is all conjectures and imagination.

@@iFireender It wont happen in a few more years, there's just too many programs and gaming that are done exclusively on x86_64, it will take more than a decade

@@tuxthedev3470 luckily, programs that require high amounts of resources usually are newer programs. Newer programs (mostly, and really should) have well-controlled codebases. Most languages have well-defined cross compilation possibilities. You can easily emulate a decades old x86 program on an ARM machine - those usually don't even begin to use up the capabilities of modern computers. As for other programs? You basically just need to cross-compile, if even. I assume we're going to see a true 50/50 split, where there's both ARM and x86 machines, performing similarly, arm slightly better, x86 being more legacy compatible, in 3-4 years, and in around 10 years we'll be entirely switched to ARM and/or RISCV.

After 1 year: Did you cool down?! Hats his honest opinion from his personal experience which matches the experiences most of unbiased human with nice grateful and cool nature. He didn’t force anything on anybody. It’s your choice to watch his UKposts video and take it personally! Sheesh, this internet is really getting filled with teens and polar dumb heads! I’ve been coding compilers, assemblers and AI under DOS decades before you were born, or even before your inception! And honestly, the Apple Silicon is a once in a lifetime revolution only hardcore techies (and unbiased users) would really understand and appreciate. That’s my personal experience and opinion, don’t take it personally again, nobody is pushing anything under your throat, if you keep your mouth shut and LEARN from other people instead of being closed minded.

Seriously reaching.

@@EvoraGT430 I was speaking as a small business owner, not a sophisticated cyber attack. Of course no system is perfect, let alone a windows machine.

Apple has its own security features. Soldered SSD makes it impossible to steal hard disk physically

@@timohavol8032 they can’t do jack if the hard drive is encrypted.

He's got the same mental process as I do. It's cool to have a free software laptop, but even Windows is a beast nowadays, not to mention the engineering behind the MacBook. Now I have an HP Pavilion laptop with a broken keyboard. It's not that the keyboard is soldered, but if you want a new one, you have to tear the whole laptop apart and spend 20% of the laptop price in that part. So, I made my math and buying a new MacBook Air second generation is a way better option than upgrading and suffering this 2019 laptop. The only two things I'd miss is Windows and Linux... but for that I have this crippled laptop.

Sorry, what is ARM going to give you that an X86-64 laptop doesn't already give you?

@@terrydaktyllus1320 Great battery life

​@@stellarorbit1341 It's not that straightforward. Battery life depends entirely on what hardware and software is running on your machine. The battery life on my ARM-based Pixel 4a phone doubled overnight just because I installed a custom LineageOS on it and stopped running any Google apps on it, many of which were constantly running in the background. In order to make that statement true, you'd need to look at the power consumption of all the hardware in the device - that will then give you an indication of battery drain.

@@terrydaktyllus1320 take a moment to realize you’re comparing an android phones battery to a modern laptop battery

@@nameless4155 What does that have to do with it? So a modern laptop battery doesn't drain faster the more wattage that you draw from it? Did you do electrical theory in school? Did you even go to school?

You might want to take a look at this: medium.com/carvago-development/my-docker-on-macos-part-1-setup-ubuntu-virtual-machine-both-intel-and-apple-silicon-cpu-5d886af0ebba Not sure if it's still relevant.

Technically speaking, docker containers ARE linux containers. Nobody wants to have a pure MacOS/Windows/etc. docker container with all the non-linux libraries, running Mach-O/PE binaries inside, it doesn't make any sense. So in any case docker on a non-linux platform will be a sort of emulator of a linux kernel or a virtual machine running the real linux kernel. No doubts, if you develop for linux it's best to do on linux.

If you are a sysadmin/devops, using Linux is optimal. If you are a webdev with some need for graphical applications, maybe Mac is the best (or you need to be some kind of GIMP/Inkscape master). Videoediting? Yeah, without Adobe apps Linux is pretty much bad at this. Also, I don't use Mac because their 5 year support is absolutely ridiculous. If your machine is above 5yo you need to basically turn your Mac into a Hackintosh for a machine that works fine, and you will need to buy the next new thing apple launched for $1000+. No, thanks.

@@dvmavgoor I think Davis meant that the Docker is running with x86 emulation, not on the native ARM64 emulation. So it's basically emulation inside of an emulation, which makes things slower.

@@WolfgangsChannel That's even worse, I agree. But I feel it's not fair to blame OS X that it's incapable of running x86 Linux binaries on its ARM64 hardware without any slowness.

@@plica06 He's being ironic. Linus isn't a fanboy. He can be annoying and a hardass, but he's not a fanboy of anything... except spending money on D.I.Y.ing his house with tech.

@plica06 Linus has a history of dissing Apple, he called the Apple Silicon presentation "a slow dumpster fire", said that the performance claims were exaggerated, and since Apple didn't present any real benchmarks, the real-world performance would likely be subpar and the first generation of M1 Macbooks would be swept under the rug like the first Apple Watch.

@@WolfgangsChannel A lot of viewers saw it that way, but Linus clarified in his podcast (WAN show) that week that he hated how little information they had in presentation, not the product itself. In any case, he definitely gave it the praise it deserved when it came out!

ME TOO!!!

lol

I mean you can do web Dev on almost anything, it really comes down to battery life. That being said as another web Dev I just really don't like the OS, its poorly build, the app store is useless and the restrictions that apple puts on all their shit is annoying. I shouldn't spend 1 hour looking up how to install STS cause Mac doesn't like the binary, is stupid as fuck.

@@Keviamaya um, so how figma, adobe xd, maybe even sketch work on linux for webdev? and graphics for webdev? just gimp and krita?

@@killmeh2 I usually work with figma, gimp, krita and inkscape and that's usually fine for most things, but I'm a coder on most projects and from my perspective Linux fits me better. I get that people like using Mac for design or video editing projects but I rather just switch to Windows if I really need those, its cheaper and faster.

My mind's been out of the hellscape that is 2018 /g/ for a while now. Who the fuck cares, use what's best for you, the only people judging you are not worth being around (aka /g/ users)

@Lightning Hydra I work at an AASP, I would personally never buy a new Mac due to the bullshittery I've seen from Apple. I do really like macOS, so if I had more money and was able to piss away hundreds at a time without it hurting then maybe I would use one. But they cost an unnecessary amount of money to own and repair.

I can almost guarantee Apple will bring back upgradeable storage, but it will be horribly expensive and a proprietary design, of course.

Thought about getting one of those...that may be a company to keep an eye out for. You can install a freakin graphics card on the back of one now.

Thanks, good to know 👍

I did some googling and it turns out that both 4266 and 2133 values can be referred to as either MTs or Mhz. In both cases the memory operates at dual channel if there are two modules with equal capacity, so the comparison is correct - 4266 Mhz in the M1 Macbooks is 2x faster than 2133Mhz in the DDR3 laptops.

@@WolfgangsChannel That is a common mistake, but dual channel memory doesn’t change the frequency. DDR memory sends two signals in a single clock cycle by assigning value on both the rising and falling edges of the clock signal. There is also something called QDR which sends four transfers per cycle. You can have one chip that sends one signal per cycle, one DDR chip that sends two signals per cycle, and one chip that sends four signals per cycle. If these three chips have the same frequency of, say 1333MHz, the first chip will also be 1333MT/s, but the DDR chip with the same frequency will carry 2666MT/s, and the QDR chip will have 5333MT/s. To my knowledge, there are no DDR4 memory chips on the market that are validated to operate at 4266MHz, as these high frequencies cause stability issues. The other interesting thing that makes the difference between frequency and transfer rate interesting is latency. A DDR4 chip with 2133MHz (4266MT/s) will have twice the latency of a single transfer per cycle chip with a 4266 MHz (4266MT/s) while having the same data transfer rates.

One of the features of LPDDR4X was increased frequency - that's why those chips can reach 4266 MT/s whereas desktop DDR4 chips usually only manage around 3600-4000 MTs www.anandtech.com/show/11021/sk-hynix-announces-8-gb-lpddr4x4266-dram-packages There are plenty of desktop chips that can do 4266 MT/s though: www.amazon.com/s?k=ddr4+4266&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 All I'm trying to say is - the DDR3 RAM in the video is actually 1066 Mhz, but runs at 2133 MT/s when it works in the dual channel mode (two sticks of RAM). The LPDDRX4 RAM in the Macbooks is actually 2133 Mhz, but runs at 4266 MT/s in dual channel configuration. It might not be exactly two times faster due to higher timings and other factors, but the point still stands.

You crazy

good choice if it works to you!

which mac? i3 macbook air ?

@@sencercebeci 16 inch mbp

​@@SjarMenace if I am a coder or a content creator, designer, artist, etc, yes indeed, that would be crazy, but I am just a finance guy who rely heavily on MS office, which is superior to any other office apps. although there is a mac version of MS office, but it has limited features.

I’m stuck with a Chromebook that my father’s work gave away, I absolutely hate it. The OS is unreliable and if the browser crashes, the entire desktop goes down along with it, the user account or system automatically resets itself if it detects a tiny problem unless the user account has a good TPM, and it deletes files without consent due to low storage, used the Linux container a bit but couldn’t do much due to CPU, 4 GB RAM, and overheating. The Android VM is bull, as they purposely prevent APK file installation and force you to go get the google play store, and as an iOS user that pays for iCloud and owns an Apple Watch, the Chromebook is pressuring me into paying for Google Drive and buying a Google Pixel and worshipping Google instead.

Your best bet is either a Thinkpad (if you like them tough) or a Dell. Dell have some very nice models one tick down from the XPS series, I recently got a 16" Dell with a 14-core CPU and I'm extremely happy with it. For a PC laptop it works great, although battery life is like 1 hour and the fan screams if I do anything more than open Notepad. But that's x86 for you. Laptops are replaceable and fragile machines, I don't get why people expect them to last 10 years. Tech moves fast. The benefits of the M architecture greatly outweight any of the negatives for me - the sole exception being lack of PC-level gaming. For that you will always need a lot of energy and a massive fan, no doubts.

Whose future? And why? I've been building and programming computers for almost 40 years now, I see no intrinsic problem with current laptop design, provided you buy one of good enough quality.

@@terrydaktyllus1320 So you don't see the problems with heating and battery life that comes with X86 CPUs?

@@terrydaktyllus1320 so someone who has been making computers for 40 years only made a youtube account recently?

@@gmdrandom6287 Yes, I made this specific account reasonably recently. Perhaps 40 years in computers has taught me a lot about privacy and anonymity? Maybe I don't just use one account?

@@terrydaktyllus1320 so why is ARM bad?

yeah macos gaming has been dead ever since apple removed 32 bit support, and now the m1 was the final nail in the coffin haha theoretically, valve could have saved mac gaming at least partially by porting Proton to macos, however they have decided against it soo

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If Asahi Linux has great battery life then a Macbook M1 might be appealing to me (simply because Mac's "Metal" graphics stack sucks for gaming)

What does it mean?

@@jeffersonmp4 well, 2 meanings: A) do you want something to change? if you are paying (more) for a product or a service, you got more/the power. So don't buy/support things/products that you don't think are good enough and (only) then the company would care enough. B) rich people ('people who have more dollars') are only 1 out of 100. And that 1% have half the wealth (50% instead of the 1%) of all the others combined. So, if we give power (by voting) to the 1%'s allies and 'friends' (if we value money that much as a mindset), then more power to the rich people. Rich people, have more dollars. If we vote by measuring values less than dollars, rich people have greater influence/are of greater importance/have more money. 1 vote = 1 person If 1 vote = 1 dollar... Or Having 1 house = 1 vote, Well then... some people have more 51% of the houses (dollars/shares/admiration points socially, etc), So, their opinion and their interests are of greater importance and influence. If 99% want to choose white, But 1% wants black, Then black it is. Always (got the 51%) So simple/silly examples. And the 99% trying to race and win in a field that they have no chance, thinking they're equal! --- Sorry for the long post, English isn't my native language. :) P.s. the 1% have grabbed more than twice the wealth that the rest off 99% got on the last 3 years...

The advantages are due to optimisation Apple brought to their flavour of the ARM architecture and their OS software. A standard ARM CPU running Windows or Linux for ARM does not exhibit the same extent of performance and efficiency (i.e. battery life) benefits. Do not overlook the huge amount of effort and experience Apple poured into this, it took years to make it happen

Yeah but the performance on m1 along with the battery life they give is really good with no visible competition as of now

@@soham7510 well there was that intel hybrid CPU but that thing is a dumpster fire lol in terms of performance

The battery is always the one thing that will be easy to replace, and being that it’s such a mass market product, you’ll always be able to find plenty of spares on eBay. Otherwise, it’s just a few screws on the bottom and you’re in. Aside from soldered storage and RAM, it’s basically the same repairability as all other laptops. Microsoft’s surface line is actually the worst here, because for some dumb reason they glue all of them shut, and Microsoft itself doesn’t even attempt to repair them, they just replace completely, incredibly wasteful and I don’t know why they don’t get more flak for that . Since the device is so solid state though, it’s actually kind of reliable by design, since there’s no moving parts that should fail. (Like the CPU fan) Can’t speak for M1 yet but historically Apple has been quite good about supporting devices for well over 5 years, I don’t know if there are examples of shorter lifespan ones. Usually there’s also some software hack to keep updating it. With Windows 11 requiring TPM and throwing compatibility out the window for most devices that run Windows, I’m very curious how Microsoft is going to deal with it, because it’s a major compatibility step backwards for Windows, especially on the lower end.

Nein nein, not just battery. aapl is all going to screw over the SSD. Game over.

@@AndreiAldea but I think the Surface laptop 4 and laptop GO were actually able to be opened now?

Soldered SSD worries me a lot

Yeah it's bad that one can't change the battery oneself. However, Apple swaps the battery - for 139€. Not cheap, but not terrible either.

Someone please comment when you find it out!

macOS

@@WolfgangsChannel *NO*

@@WolfgangsChannel *Gasp* Edit: i guess it makes sense though

MacOS is real BSD based UNIX

@@johto macOS *is* UNIX

"The M1 is a game changer" ... how? It's just a laptop. Get over yourself :-D

And that right there is where Microsoft and Dedicated gpu hardware has people. Yes you can run many but not all or any of the top new games on Linux (at least not easily or without lots of tinkering). That’s why I still have a hand built PC next to me. Along with a gaming laptop (darn thing is way too heavy to be called a laptop). Both run Windows and Linux. The only reason they windows really is for some specific office work and games. Otherwise I’d be using Linux exclusively. An M2 (soon to be M3) MacBook solves most of one problem.

Since April. I also thought about waiting until the new M1X models come out, but ultimately decided to go for it. There are always going to be newer, better and more powerful laptops on the horizon

Using Macbook pro 2018 intel with 4 usb-c ports. 2 ports go for monitors, one to charge, one for a usbc to usb-a for external keyboard, mouse printer, disks, memory sticks etc. The lack of ports on the m1 would be a deal breaker. So would less than 32gb of memory, which comes in handy if you are running docker or other virtualisation things. I will wait until the next gen pro models that fix ports and memory.

@@FriedrichBrunzema The new Macbooks Pros (September? October?) are supposed to bring back some of the I/O (SD, HDMI).

what desktop environment do you use? you cannot really say linux has a janky experience when linux itself can run multiple completely different experiences haha...

You say the Linux experience was "janky" while running Arch as your main desktop OS.....

@@a.Murder.Of.Crows. that's a fair point. Not because I was using Arch, but because I insisted on using a tiling WM because it's more "minimal." It was such a time suck to get that thing configured correctly, and yeah it was pretty cool but it had a lot of rough edges. I'm now using a stock Gnome instead and I personally like it a lot better, and I don't miss macos anymore.

Every desktop environment I’ve used has been janky on linux. It’s the same issue with android. You have thousands of good options but not a single great one.

​@@ZeerakImran may I ask what desktop environments you have used and whether you used X11 or Wayland?

lol, get a windows laptop running that cpu and a decent GPU and you’ll be able to do something computationally expensive for about 30 minutes before everything starts to stutter

Honestly if you value privacy AND workflow you should do both. Simply compartmentalize your workflow onto the Mac and use an older Linux thinkpad for browsing and personal use. If money is a huge factor, then definitely Linux in a VM is a fairly secure way to get similar functionality.

Look up system76

I fail to see how they provide the best experience. I can buy a computer much cheaper than a M1 mac that also outperforms it. As for macOS, it is nothing i cannot replicate in linux. Apple is the ones who are catching up, but i do not think they ever will since they market their products as a luxury experience, so they get away with selling under powered hardware for lots of money.

I'd like to get a thinkpad or something and put linux on it but the M1 macs seem too good to pass up. What do you mean about apple's ethics? Why are their practices any worse than other companies?

@@5ystemError Apple is especially anti consumer, anti repair, anti competitive & monopolous etc. I don't think it's that apple is inherently more evil than any other company, but since they are so huge, they can utilize their position at the expense of the consumer & developers. If any other company was to become as huge as them, they would probably start doing the same, since they can. But what's so strange about apple is that even if they do something wrong, they seem to be immune to mass scrutiny. Apple sheep keep buying their shit & supporting their practices.

@@5ystemError every company wants profits and every company will go to extreme lengths for that. It's their market that forces them to make closed ecosystem. Closing ecosystem means having full control even if it is unethical

There is a Linux distro for m1 mac

Parallels desktop.

​@@topmech71running a virtual machine on macos is not the same as actually running an operating system on bare metal

I guess @deepspacecow2 was referring to Asahi Linux. If anyone is wondering, it has come a long way since this video, and now even has GPU acceleration and can run older OpenGL games very well, with work ongoing to support Vulkan and Proton for modern titles

So you don't therefore think that it might just have something to do with the fact that IBM and Lenovo have been "in bed with Linux" for many years now and make laptops that are usually quite straightforward to install with Linux. As a Linux user, I consider myself an "engineer", not a "circle jerk" (whatever one of those is anyway in modern "brat-speak"). Thinkpads work well with Linux, Linux does not need "latest and greatest" hardware and older Thinkpads are "built like tanks" and extremely easy and cheap to repair when they go wrong. If you treat a computer as a "fashion accessory" then go buy Apple. But don't tell me my reasons for using Thinkpads.

You could try yabai or something, that's a decent tiling WM for macOS

There are third party utilities that expand finders window management and even finder itself.

Hi, sorry for a 6 month late reply I guess MacBook Air is pretty enough for the tasks you described. Pro might be a little better only if you want to work with something really resources consuming like editing a lot of HD videos and tasks like that. Plus MacBook Air doesn't need a fan so it works without any noise. Better take 16 Gb Ram just in case if in the future you need more Ram