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Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by rhinoceraptor on Sunday September 02, 2018 @12:42PM (#17897561)
I have the 9560, and I love it. I got it as an open box unit from Microcenter right when the 9570s were coming out, so it was a great deal. I use it for side projects and as a personal laptop, I would love to use it instead of my T470 work laptop.

It took a lot of fiddling to get Linux running on it, but it all works now. I have it set up with 18.04 with the root on ZFS.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by Boulth on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:04PM (#17897648)
Glad to hear it works well for you!

> I have it set up with 18.04 with the root on ZFS.

I was thinking about using ZFS too. Unfortunately it's not so easy to setup correctly (full disk encryption etc.) on Arch as it is on Ubuntu...

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Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by rhinoceraptor on Sunday September 02, 2018 @10:25PM (#17899862)
Yeah, my desktop is root on ZFS with arch as well, even with the LTS kernel I was always running into issues with mismatched SPL/ZFS and the kernel, I'm trying the DKMS package atm. That took me an entire day to get running.
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Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by Boulth on Monday September 03, 2018 @12:55AM (#17900417)
Do you get that many benefits from ZFS? I was thinking of using it for backup via zfs send/receive and snapshotting before pacman updates but the sheer amount of work made me stay with ext4 and luks setup. Too bad as I'd really want Tor give ZFS a try :(
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