alt Hacker NewsIt's Apple, not the users, that need to make that switch in the first instance. I'd love to use Linux again but I'm not leaving Apple hardware for it, or accepting poor software support for recent hardware.
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I dunno, I'm pretty happy with my thinkpad. Even if I could run Linux flawless on a macbook (which you can't unfortunately) I'd still take the thinkpad hardware over a macbook.
A macbook air is 1.25kg, and my thinkpad is 910g, and I can really feel that difference. The thinkpad keyboard also feels ever so slightly better too... and Linux working well is worth more than pretty much anything else.
>but I'm not leaving Apple hardware for it,
It's ok, Apple knows this and will lock it's OS down to an iPhone like OS step by step until you're boxed in a nice little prison, and you'll accept it.
Also you'll pay them 30% on every transaction you do on said computer.
It's a question of priorities, I guess.
I admit I love the mbp hardware, but I can't stand macos anymore. So when my work computer was up for replacement, I didn't think twice and went with a PC, the latest thinkpad p14s. Everything works out of the box on Linux.
Is it as nice as a mac? No, especially the plastic case doesn't feel as nice under the hands as a mac's aluminum, the touchpad is quite good but worse than a mac's, and there are some gaps around the display hinge. But the display itself is quite nice (similar resolution, oled, although not as bright as a mac's), it's silent and it's plenty fast for what I do. I didn't pay for it, so I don't directly care about this point in this situation, but it also cost around half of what an equivalent mbp would have cost.
I also haven't tried the battery life yet, but it should hold at least as well as my 5-yo hp elitebook, which still held for around 5 hours last year. I basically never use it for more than an hour unplugged, so battery life is low on my priorities.