It also departs from the classic "inverted-T" cluster for the cursor keys. The new keyboard is infamously prone to failure but basically can’t be repaired (you have to replace the whole top plate, apparently). Apple is going nowhere fast with its hardware, with the last MacBook Pros being an insane cluster fuck of dongles, Touch Bars and no compelling performance or capacity upgrades in exchange for the lost convenience: I’d much rather have a "PC" laptop, even an ugly one, with a bunch of ports, an SD card slot, a bunch of RAM, and no ridiculous Touch Bar.iTerm is so slow, and it appears that macOS’s own graphics APIs are the bottleneck this is fine on the laptop screen, but a real killer when plugged into a 4K external display.Or the way Sierra broke Karabiner, which I utterly rely on. (System Integrity Protection) - laudable though it may be from a security perspective - basically broke all RubyGem installs by default. Apple has a penchant for breaking things in unexpected and arbitrary ways. ![]() Can’t sync an iPhone with Linux, so would ( gasp!) have to switch to Android.Need to find replacements for indispensible software, and go without "dispensible-but-preferred" software.You can get some very powerful hardware (with actual ports and a quality keyboard) on the Linux side at a reasonable price.I had a mutt-based email set-up that I was pretty happy with, and could easily resuscitate it failing that, I’m relatively satisfied with the Gmail web interface.I spend most of my working life in Chrome and the Terminal.Is this viable?Īt its core, this may be realistic because: ![]() Here are some notes made while thinking through the topic. I’ve revisited the topic on multiple occasions. Around May 2017 I started seriously thinking of switching to Linux for my next machine.
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