Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ...
by geekifier on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @08:57AM
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> it doesn't ever crash and it sleeps and wakes correctly.
Maybe I have been unlucky, but I have experienced many panics across several different machines running recent MacOS releases. 2 of those being corporate machines, so I can blame the "security" software that gets deployed. My home Mac mini, does not have any crapware deployed, and it still managed to crash once or twice.
In contrast, my ancient desktop running Windows 10 has not had a single BSOD in the years since I built that Ivy Bridge machine. And this included running much more intensive workloads than the terminal/docker/text editor workloads on my Macs.
For a daily driver? Poor UI experience on MacOS. On Linux usually one of Mate, Plasma, WindowMaker, XFCE or Gnome will have the Window behaviour (snapping, tiling, maximising, switching) I want.
All of the Linux options have file-selection dialogs that don't suck. All of the Linux distros I have used for a daily driver have better software than brew.
MacOS kernel certainly has some nice surprises (compressed memory is impressive), it doesn't ever crash and it sleeps and wakes correctly.
OTOH, all the non-kernel software is, frankly, crap. They're unintuitive, hard to use and limited in variety.