MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by mancerayder on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:45AM (#17515106)

I think that's right. Our only two options are the Linux desktop with its high-maintenance potential of timesink, and Windows that, while it has improved, suffers from an authoritarian approach to things like reboots, updates, ability to customize and so forth. I use Windows 10 + MobaXTerm after moving off of the increasingly annoying MacBook design choices.

But there's something far worse: killer apps (for some professionals and hobbyists) only exist for Mac OSX and Windows. I'm looking at you, Adobe.

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Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by terminalcommand on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:06AM (#17515334)

Linux has improved a lot in the last couple of years. Even on state-of-the-art hardware you can expect reasonable support if you choose a distro that uses a recent kernel (ie. Manjaro instead of stock debian).

I've been using a 8th gen computer for a year and I haven't had any problems. On the contrary the hevc hardware decoder/encoder works on linux, but I couldn't get it to work on Windows.

On the other hand Windows looks more polished than KDE and GNOME.

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Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by ben-schaaf on Thursday July 12, 2018 @12:01PM (#17515862)

Having recently built an AMD gaming rig and bought a Aero 15 laptop with the latest 8th gen chip and installed the latest Ubuntu on both, not everything works out of the box (sensors and discrete graphics specifically), but both machines did everything I asked of them.

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