![]() My gripes about Macs are almost entirely about OSX performance/reliability and command-line habitability: version over version, it almost never improves. ![]() Terrible keyboards are another thing entirely, Lenovo went through a bout of that with the X1. Either 90% of their units are defective or we're using our computers very differently. Intrusive admin software has been a problem in the past for sure - especially at Google - but I've bought dozens of these for home use as well. It bothered me when I quit the platform ages ago, and it is still bothering me now: little I care about has changed or improved. My verdict is: the hardware is usually GREAT but MacOS isn't. We've used them for work and for play, for software development and video editing and graphic design and media consumption. I gave her an M1 air this holiday season! We've had pros, airs, and iMacs in four or five different colors occupying our living spaces for fifteen or twenty years now. ![]() Between the two of us, and between home and work, we've bought or used probably 25-30 of these over the years. Interactive performance is much better, the docker-based workflows everyone's using are so much faster when they're native, and there's no mismatch between Darwin's BSD userland and the Ubuntu/CentOS you're probably using in prod. Reliability aside - and I realize that everyone values ergonomic factors differently - Linux is just a better choice in every regard for me and the kind of work that I do. I have to restart it once or twice a week. It's not uncommon to see uptimes on my ThinkPads measured in months. (Always right before a videoconference! I missed fifteen minutes of a call last week scrambling to fetch another device because the audio subsystem died and the Mac decided it had to install updates for a half hour when it rebooted.) I see people in this thread complaining that Linux distros are unreliable, but my Linux machines don't do things like beachball for 20s at a time or have complete audio system crashes requiring reboot twice a week. I did all my dev work on MacBooks between 2007-2013, but my experience this year has completely vindicated my decision to ditch the Mac at home and at work back then. I begged them to give me a ThinkPad with Linux instead, and it's been a litany of problems in the three months I've been using it.
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