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Re:Why I'm Spoiled by Apple Silicon (But Still Love Framework) by jebarker on Monday September 22, 2025 @09:40AM (#45333346)
I do all my software development in remote clusters/supercomputers. I’d consider myself a power user. My laptop is for running a terminal, vscode, a browser and the various applications my company requires, e.g. Teams, Slack. So I want reliability, low configuration and maintenance overhead on my part and good battery life. Linux can’t compete on these fronts.
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Re:Why I'm Spoiled by Apple Silicon (But Still Love Framework) by cardanome on Monday September 22, 2025 @09:51AM (#45333476)
All those pros you list have nothing to do with the desktop environment. Maybe low configuration but you can have that on Linux too.

I totally agree that the hardware and the underlying Unix is decent. Audio on Mac is also way less of a hassle. I am not saying that a power user wouldn't have good reason to chose a Mac, just that the desktop is for me the weakest part of it compared to Linux.

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Re:Why I'm Spoiled by Apple Silicon (But Still Love Framework) by trueismywork on Monday September 22, 2025 @04:40PM (#45339169)
I do the same and I prefer KDE much more than Mac OS X apart from battery part.
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