I like this flag because the states aren’t in the tent at all.

The macos used by people is not the macos that is Unix certified.

Could be that they certified the Darwin kernel, but not the commercial offering?

I’m all for Linux and use it in several places, but it has nothing on MacOS polish.

Literally why I prefer a Macbook for work and a Linux desktop for gaming. The former just works with a little bit of setup (brew), the latter allows for infinite tinkering and customizability.

Hell, Mac OS is even a certified UNIX operating system, something that even Linux (or GNU+Linux) can’t say.

It’s still a non-FOSS OS which is the real reason it sucks, but it’s a lot better than a lot of people seem to think. Whereas Windows just plain sucks on a usability level too, not just the licensing.

The people who don’t want any change aren’t going to move to Linux anyway. I meant more the people who stayed this long for games, but are now giving up.

But also these updates very rarely change the UI significantly in most applications and desktop environments. It’s more bug fixes and performance improvements that you’re missing out on by being on Mint.

I’m on TumbleWeed and I don’t remember the last time the UI for my desktop or any application I use, had a significant change. But I’m always on a new kernel and new graphics drivers, which makes playing newish games using Proton a smoother experience.

I think for the users that they’re talking about would mostly care that the directories in

/home/tux0r

are organized the same as they would be in

C:\Users\tux0r\

But… that’s already the case pretty much. Most distros have default directories like Downloads, Documents, Pictures, etc.

That’s not really distribution-specific though. All GUI configuration tools I know are distribution-agnostic.

But they usually get bundled with a desktop environment and the default desktop environment is usually shipped with the distro.

Personally I think Plasma does this configuration stuff well, better than Windows. I haven’t really used anything Gnome or Gnome-based (Cinnamon, MATE) recently so I don’t know what they’re like these days.

IMO Mint with its Cinamon or MATE desktop environments, or anything Plasma based would be fairly easy for a lifelong Windows user to pick up.

I think Mint gets shit on because it’s based on Ubuntu (which already gets shit on a lot) and only gets a new release when the Ubuntu LTS does, so it’s kinda out of date.

Rolling release distros get recommended over it a lot because having a newer kernel gets you better gaming performance and a lot of the techy people who’d even care about switching, also like gaming. And nowadays, immutable distros get recommended a lot so you can’t fuck things up with a weird config change. Mint just doesn’t do anything significantly better than any other distro, it’s lukewarm.

I don’t think the desktop environment actually has much to do with why people dislike Mint. It’s just fine IMO. I’ll take it over Ubuntu, but these days I’m on OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Rolling release, and comes with snapshots configured straight out of the box so when I fuck something up, it’s fairly quick do undo.

Not to mention you don’t really need slavery when your minimum wage is like 3 euros an hour and unpaid overtime is the norm anyway, at least in office work

China’s doing this capitalism thing way better than the west. We should really learn from them. For example if the US abolished auto unions and increased manufacturing subsidies, they could lower wages and deliver cars for more competitive prices instead of having to rely solely on tariffs on Chinese EVs.

When normal BSD becomes too mainstream, you can also run Darwin. Run KDE Plasma and a custom theme to make it look like Windows.

The thing is, we just use whole numbers. If you get under 1, then you move down by one SI prefix et voilà, you have whole numbers again

I’ve never thought of counting on fingers as a good reason for using it for units. But since our numeric system is base 10 (likely because of having 10 fingers indeed), it’s easier to have our unit systems as base 10 too. If we all learned to think in base 12 from ground up, having base 12 units would make a lot more sense too

And also not banned by reddit but a mod of the specific subreddit.

Also is it a legit ban or just a comment? I haven’t seen this version of the reddit UI before

I went through 2 weeks worth of posts and there was one dead SSD. It was one of the removable ones in a 2TBT3 MBP from 2017.

The ones from your video are also all Intel laptops. Intel Macs ran so freaking hot, I’m surprised they didn’t have more failures of literally every component. The ARM ones are significantly cooler, it’s pretty hard to even get fans running on the Pro models.

There’s issues to be sure and much like you I definitely wouldn’t recommend an used Mac for running Linux, but if you can find a bargain Apple Silicon Mac and both the battery capacity and TBW values aren’t too bad, they’re pretty good, with single core performance right up there with brand new Intel or AMD CPUs in some cases, as well as excellent. Again, only if you’re willing to run a proprietary operating system. For me it’s great for work, but for most personal usage I prefer Linux, running on a desktop.

Tbf you went on to claim they’re just generally bad laptops. They’re not. But they’re closed af and that part is bad

Essentially you’d want a M* Pro or Max for the earlier generations as those came with more RAM, but buying one for Asahi support would still be stupid. Buy one if you actually want to use MacOS and then one day when you can no longer get MacOS updates, Asahi might make it useful again.

I also haven’t yet heard of any of these SSDs dying from excessive usage (swap), but I concur that it’s better to not have to swap this much.

The price to performance of this hardware is nowhere near as bad as you imply, it actually beats Intel and AMD based laptops generally. But it only functions properly with MacOS, we’re lucky if we get proper Linux support by the time Apple deprecates them.

TL;DR: They are actually some of the best laptops out there IF you’re willing to use a proprietary OS. They’re not very good if you want to use them for Linux, which I’d imagine is most of this community. Don’t get them if you’d be running Asahi.

Yes.

Former Gentoo user here. The thing I have in common with the other former Gentoo users I know IRL (a whopping 2 of them) is that none of us have the time for it anymore.

So if I ever find myself having too much free time, you bet your ass I’ll reinstall Gentoo.

Installing Gentoo itself isn’t really any more difficult than Arch. Though I hear Arch has some easy way to install nowadays. It’s kinda like installing Arch the old fashioned way.

At the end of the day if you follow the official installation guide, you’ll be fine. If you miss a step, you get to learn valuable troubleshooting skills.

Installing anything is as easy as sudo emerge firefox, waiting for an hour for some obscure part in the compile process to fail, giing up, and doing sudo emerge firefox-bin. But tbh outside of browsers, most things compile fine unless you have esoteric optimization flags in your compiler config (-ffast-math breaks AV stuff for an example).

Ah and at some point you’ll go “Hmm this six core CPU isn’t enough, I need to upgrade to 16” because most of your packages will be compiled from scratch. And every update also compiles the same packages again (the ones that need to be updated, not all packages. Unless you specify that).

So why do it? It’s fun, great learning experience and you can customize how your software is compiled (specify your CPU microarchitecture for compiler optimizations, use unsafe optimization flags if you want, use the USE flags to straight up leave functionality you don’t need out of software). Also bragging rights.

Tbf a text editor will also do that for you these days

Well IntelliJ is written in Java tbh, you could reasonably have an IDE with less consumption

It’s also very nice to use. Though I really should move to Zed or something

I like this issue in the form of a quiz