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Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by _coveredInBees on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:22AM (#24305932)
Lol yeah. That is literally the worst thing about MacBooks. It's hard enough getting it to work properly in a dual monitor setup, but I can reproducibly generate forced power cycles by plugging into a dock when the lid is closed due to a kernel panic bug that still hasn't been solved despite numerous reports from users suffering the same fate on Catalina.

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!

Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by jldugger on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:46PM (#24307016)
>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.