Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)
by jldugger on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:46PM
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>I can reproducibly generate forced power cycles by plugging into a dock when the lid is closed due to a kernel panic bug
Crazy as it is, I've found this to be less common after upgrading the firmware on my monitors.
I also just had to reboot my MBP 16 because every so often when the VPN connection drops, there is no way to resuscitate the WiFi network connection without a full reboot :-/
As someone who moved from an XPS to MBP to have a smoother experience with less hardware glitches, I have been sorely disappointed. Once WSL gets full support for running GUI apps and CUDA support, I will almost certainly be moving away from the MBP. The direction of OSX is concerning, and I find it insane that their sandboxing results in a 5 second wait to open a simple Word or CSV file. I booted up my 5 year old XPS a few weeks back and it felt so much snappier than my fully loaded MBP 16!