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Re:I Hate My MacBook by miguelmota on Sunday October 04, 2020 @05:19AM (#24677477)
I switched from a MacBook to ThinkPad T480 with Archlinux and it's the best decision I've ever done in my software development career. I don't understand the obsession for macs as a developer machine when every year macOS just keeps getting heavier and slower with unnecessary translucency and animations and less reliable hardware. My colleague had to send his mac in twice already for keyboard and speaker repair on a fairly new mac. Not to mention some ThinkPads are a fraction of the cost and upgradable.
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Re:I Hate My MacBook by wasdfff on Sunday October 04, 2020 @04:13PM (#24681930)
People use macs because you can send it in for repair, and mac OS is arguably the most polished unix based desktop environment. Linux is too fiddly.
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Re:I Hate My MacBook by miguelmota on Sunday October 04, 2020 @07:50PM (#24683192)
You can send ThinkPads in for repair too if you have the warranty. MacOS may be the most cohesive unix OS but it's functionality and capabilities are restricted and limited unlike any other linux desktop environment.
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Re:I Hate My MacBook by hellisothers on Monday October 05, 2020 @09:54AM (#24687765)
As a enterprise hardware manager isn’t this what you’d want though?
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