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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by aamederen on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @02:42AM (#13218169)
I am experiencing the same thing, but on the reverse side.

At my home, I have a Ubuntu desktop which works perfectly. I use Eclipse, Android Studio and Atom editor. On work, I use MBP and pretty much the same environment.

I know it is not a common opinion but no matter what I do, I still like Ubuntu more than macos. I agree that macos looks more polished, engineered and complete but somehow, I prefer Ubuntu's plastic feeling. It has been 6 months and still my opinions did not change.

There is also the problems of macOS with Eclipse and other GTK applications (Meld) some other stuff about Mac that I couldn't fully adapt yet.

Lastly, FYI, no, I am not hater and I like MBP, especially as a solid metal object.

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by notheguyouthink on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:27AM (#13220600)
I'm just trying to find a high end laptop that will run Linux flawlessly. No trackpad driver issues. Zero. Perfect plug and play.

It's the only thing keeping my mac at this point. Fear of having to debug driver shit when i don't want to deal with any of that.

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by nommm-nommm on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:56AM (#13220899)
System76 sells laptops with Linux preloaded. I believe Dell does as well (or at least used to if they don't anymore). I'm not sure how high end you are looking for but a quick glance shows System76's most expensive laptop is well over $2,000.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by johnminter on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:35AM (#13221349)
You can also look at Zareason[1]. I have been interested, but my 2015 MBP still gets things done. I did install Lubuntu on my old 2009 MBP. Runs well, but I have yet to get the keyboard mappings right and a USB mouse makes things easier. I want to minimize GUI bling and use my CPU cycles for number (and image) crunching...

[1] https://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by pinkythepig on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:48AM (#13221485)
My XPS 13 9350 works perfectly with Fedora 25. Installed Fedora and literally everything works out of the box. That includes things like HiDPI auto scaling, touch screen, suspend, media keys, etc.

When it was first released, there were some issues with suspend and the touch screen, but they were all resolved a few months later in a newer kernel release. Fedora 25 ships with that newer kernel by default.

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by voidlogic on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:00AM (#13220954)
>I'm just trying to find a high end laptop that will run Linux flawlessly.

My 2nd Gen Lenovo X2 carbon is high end and runs Ubuntu flawlessly.

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by natosaichek on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @02:55PM (#13223358)
I've run ubuntu with zero issues on my thinkpads (w520 and w541) at work for the past ~5 years. No trackpad issues, no wifi issues, no audio or bluetooth problems. It just works.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by hashhar on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @02:26PM (#13223046)
Check out Razer Blade or the Blade Pro, any Alienware, any System86 machine, most of the Dell XPS series. Don't touch HP with Linux (really bad firmware and driver compat issues).
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by joshlemer on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @02:35PM (#13223162)
I just bought a Razer blade and it has not been flawless with Ubuntu. Specifically, when I close the laptop lid, and then open it again, I keep getting logged out every ~15 seconds, until I restart the computer. As a work-around, I must manually suspend the laptop before closing the lid.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by hashhar on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @05:25PM (#13224786)
I have the Blade Stealth and haven't had any problems with it yet apart from an update that caused my fans to keep on spinning. It's been fixed since then.

I do agree that Linux has very variable performance and experiences across machines. I really do like the laptop though. I'm looking at the Razer Blade Pro (that machine is a beast but looks sexy still) and some Dell Precision laptops for an upgrade (will be passing on the Blade to my brother) but the Pro is extremely costly at the moment.

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by dade_ on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @07:35AM (#13219267)
MacOS lost me somewhere around Mavericks and the idea of a tablet that is also my PC was appealing, so I tried a Surface Pro 3 and decided to keep it. Ubuntu Bash for Windows is great, but is Beta and still needs some work. As for my old 2011 MBP, Ubuntu runs very well on it. For a couple of decades I kept trying Linux on the desktop, and today I am happy with it. From managing photos, CAD for my 3D printer, Python development and music with my keyboard, Dropbox support, it really is remarkable how far the desktop has come. I am still using the web client for OneNote though...
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by aroch on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @05:20AM (#13218723)
Eclipse is just super janky under macOS, and the GUI doesn't even work the same as its Windows counterpart -- which makes teaching classes with Eclipse a study in pain
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