Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro
by sgadimbayli on Saturday November 13, 2021 @10:34AM
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I love my Regolith/Ubuntu setup and don't want to move anywhere.
However, I can't find a decent machine which will last for 4 5 hours on battery, and it is important. My brand new Thinkpad T14 lasts less than 3 hours, and I am on minimalistic setup with only few apps running. Tried all kinds of power management tweaks.
OTHER thing is the issue with the microphone on external devices in Linux which is pain, which is why I always have to use my phone for calls.
I have Windows installed on it as a dual-boot and I cannot believe it when I log into Windows (Windows is definitely worse than Apple)... I just don't understand WTF happened over the past decade; Windows seems to have gone backwards. There is no way in the world I could ever use this thing and be productive. The interface is so clunky with title bars which use up all the valuable screen real estate. Difficult to switch between different windows. The cursor was almost impossible to use with the touchpad (it just feels unresponsive); astonishingly, I was actually able to get the touchpad working well with Kubuntu with the generic open source touchpad driver which came with it (it's extremely customizable).
Somehow, the narratives around open source software being inferior quality always seem to be disproved in the long run. While the quality of enterprise software tends to degrade overtime (as big corporation financial politics and bureaucracy creep in). Open source projects are free from toxic financial incentives so they tend to keep improving over time.