abhixec
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Yes I am with you on that one.
Not supporting Apple by any means here but if your workflow is cloud based you could get away with 256.
As a software dev. my work laptop sadly or surprisingly is 256 and I haven't hit the storage limit on it.
No running any code locally everything is on a sandboxed dev. machine.
But could provide one of the thousand that you are having trouble running on MacOS?
Genuinely curious despite my comment sounding like I am trying to defend MacOS.
If you you can single command in Linux, what prevented you to do the same on Macos?
brew install <the_commandline_tool> and you should have been able to run the command in macos too.
I was using Ubuntu shortly, certainly a great experience contrary to the hate I see for it in some Linux communities. I do not like snap(probably gotten better in the last 6 months since I used Ubuntu).
Haha sadly I am a all in or nothing kind of a person.
I have a Thinkpad X1E and Macbook pro m2. If I decide Linux then I will go complete anti-Apple denounce my Apple devices and same for if I chose for Apple :P. Maybe that is where I am having trouble :P
Macbook Air is 999$ 16G RAM and 256Gb. I think if you look at the competition you would be right about the same territory but with better battery, perf of M silicon chip.
For that price I think it is really hard to beat Apple. But once you go on the upgrade from base config that is when it begins to stop making sense and look elsewhere.
But the sad thing is most manufactures are following apple and soldering the components so repair ability is questionable whichever way we look.
I think the laptop lid atleast for me hasnt been an issue lately on my thinkpad.
One thing I think macos is better is connecting to high resolution monitors without issues.
My attempts to connect my thinkpad x1e to 5k (could be the dreaded nvidia which is causing this) causes so much headache.
Sorry i should have made it clearer in my post, I have been using archlinux and xmonad for more than 10 years but i do reevaluate the choices i make/made.
While the power settings has gotten a lot better over the course i was wondering if there is any laptop+os that gives close to macbook battery life.
Posted by
abhixec on Friday July 18, 2025 @02:32AM
from the ask-hn dept.
As someone who has been using Arch/Void + XMonad (and now Gnome), and with the price of the MacBook Air (M-series) falling within an affordable range, is it worth continuing to fiddle with Linux?I’ve come to the conclusion that the MacBook Air’s M-series chip is just amazing. Nothing really compares to the battery life and quietness of this machine. Not to mention, some of the default apps...
I am now going to try KWM on my work macos
XMonad is moving really fast. It was on 0.11 for quiet sometime and now it it 0.13.
Love/Miss XMonad, since I use mac work. One of the reason s I want to get a Linux machine for personal use.
ah my bad. I didn't realize that gogs was a single maintainer management model.
Is there any particular reason why this is recommended over Gogs?
I have been using gogs on a raspberry pi for my personal use and I really like it.
My use case has mostly been for hosting repositories that I don't want to share publicly or use for my personal needs.