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Re:Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smoo... by p0w3n3d on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @03:06PM (#39608540)
Look and feel of MacOS is great but above all I value freedom, serviceability and extendability. Therefore for some long time I had a 16GB Mac at work (because as Tolkien or someone else wrote, one does not simply put additional RAM in a MacBook) and 24 GB old Linux laptop at home and guess on which one did I run my VMs faster?

On the other hand Linux is still very unstable and uncomfortable. My Linux Mint Cinnamon was behaving unstable in prosaic cases, like entering PIN into my built in Wireless WAN.

I would love to see MacBook open for extension and interoperability

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Re:Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smoo... by al_borland on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @07:26PM (#39610815)
Having more resources is required if you're going to dedicated a portion of those resources to VMs. More RAM, more CPU cores, more storage... if your VMs are constrained for resources because you don't have them, or the VMs leave the base OS constrained for resources, that's going to make things slow. If VMs are what you're doing 24 > 16, regardless of the OS running the hypervisor.
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