Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel

Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by ApolloFortyNine on Monday April 02, 2018 @09:06PM (#16741024)

I've always kind of wondered what you guys are doing with your computers where you run into issues with Linux. For 95% of users, even software developers, in there off time you just want a web browser.

If you are developing, Linux is almost certainly better. The vast majority of languages have all their libraries available in the built in package manager, the included versions being guaranteed to work together.

I'm obviously not suggesting you run Arch Linux, but any Debian based distro will pretty much just work. And Ubuntu LTS doubly so.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by haZard_OS on Monday April 02, 2018 @09:45PM (#16741231)

I second that. I own a System76 laptop (Ubuntu 16.04 pre-installed) and an HP stream that I bought specifically to run POP! OS. I have also replaced several of my colleagues' OS with a Linux distro and I have yet to encounter a problem that took more than an hour to solve...and even those minor problems rarely occur.

  I am by no means a Linux guru - I just grew disgusted with Windows and wasn't willing to switch to Apple.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by driverdan on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:11AM (#16741861)

Linux has always had issues on laptop hardware. Poor power management, inability to switch between integrated and discrete video, lack of hardware support (eg fingerprint readers). It seems that for every one of these issues that gets fixed a new one appears.

That said you can get some decent laptops now with full Linux support. You have to stick to that hardware though.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by metafunctor on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:45AM (#16741978)

I switched to Macs quite a while ago, when many things usually didn't work out of the box with Linux. Wifi, bluetooth, hibernation, full disk encryption, GPU support, and external monitors were all things you would either spend a lot of time configuring or even compiling kernel modules from source.

The situation today is a lot better. I believe some research into Linux support is still a good idea before purchasing, say, a laptop.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by pjmlp on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @03:44AM (#16742624)

> If you are developing, Linux is almost certainly better.

Assuming UNIX programming is the only thing developers are supposed to do.

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