While I’m totally with you, I use Linux on all my machines and it works great even on a netbook from the netbook era … I cannot beat a battery life of a M-powered MacBook. I literally have MacBook Air 15 with M4 and 4 hours of work in After Effects and full render preview of 1080P video, took 65% of battery. Overnight the laptop lost 0% of battery. My Intel era MacBook Pro (with Arch Linux installed) takes 0% of battery too, but I power it off. This beast took 0% battery for just closing the lid. It wakes up momentarily. It’s just a different league. Even my desktops are unreliable with sleep, I have no idea why. No hardware so far was reliable enough for me casually use sleep. Most times it works, but when it isn’t, it’s very disappointing.
MacBooks … since Intel era, I’ve been using them with uptime of a year (we used to have updates less often circa fifteen years ago). I powered it off twice: when I went for a vacation, not taking it with me. And when I bought a newer MacBook.
Now, with new MacBooks, the only reason to reboot is to install updates. There’s no reason to power it off. Even if you use it every other day, it won’t discharge. It’s like an iPad now.
Yeah, I bet. It is surely is hard to beat a system where they have full control of both the hardware and the software to be fully optimized for each other. Hard to compete with that. Too bad I dislike pretty much everything about Macs other than the battery life. 🫤️
Well, I bet it’s everyone who used them not long enough to understand their different logic. They do have stupid interface decisions indeed. But overall it’s just many times better than Windows in every single department.
I grew up with Macs. It’s not that in my case. I’ve used so many desktop environments and window managers in my years, every Windows all the way from 95 until 11, ChromeOS for like 10 years, Gnome since the 2.x days until well into Gnome 3, Xfce, KDE, some more obscure ones like River, Awesome, Mango, etc, and some older ones for X11…, i3 for probably more than a decade also, Hyprland, and now my baby, Niri.
macOS has some of the worst window management of them all, worse than Windows. It’s so clunky and slow. I haven’t used a Mac in maybe 5 years, maybe it suddenly got better after ~30 or so years of my familiarity with them, but god dang. Yuck.
When you realize what else is out there, it’s awful.
While I’m totally with you, I use Linux on all my machines and it works great even on a netbook from the netbook era … I cannot beat a battery life of a M-powered MacBook. I literally have MacBook Air 15 with M4 and 4 hours of work in After Effects and full render preview of 1080P video, took 65% of battery. Overnight the laptop lost 0% of battery. My Intel era MacBook Pro (with Arch Linux installed) takes 0% of battery too, but I power it off. This beast took 0% battery for just closing the lid. It wakes up momentarily. It’s just a different league. Even my desktops are unreliable with sleep, I have no idea why. No hardware so far was reliable enough for me casually use sleep. Most times it works, but when it isn’t, it’s very disappointing.
MacBooks … since Intel era, I’ve been using them with uptime of a year (we used to have updates less often circa fifteen years ago). I powered it off twice: when I went for a vacation, not taking it with me. And when I bought a newer MacBook.
Now, with new MacBooks, the only reason to reboot is to install updates. There’s no reason to power it off. Even if you use it every other day, it won’t discharge. It’s like an iPad now.
Yeah, I bet. It is surely is hard to beat a system where they have full control of both the hardware and the software to be fully optimized for each other. Hard to compete with that. Too bad I dislike pretty much everything about Macs other than the battery life. 🫤️
Well, I bet it’s everyone who used them not long enough to understand their different logic. They do have stupid interface decisions indeed. But overall it’s just many times better than Windows in every single department.
I grew up with Macs. It’s not that in my case. I’ve used so many desktop environments and window managers in my years, every Windows all the way from 95 until 11, ChromeOS for like 10 years, Gnome since the 2.x days until well into Gnome 3, Xfce, KDE, some more obscure ones like River, Awesome, Mango, etc, and some older ones for X11…, i3 for probably more than a decade also, Hyprland, and now my baby, Niri.
macOS has some of the worst window management of them all, worse than Windows. It’s so clunky and slow. I haven’t used a Mac in maybe 5 years, maybe it suddenly got better after ~30 or so years of my familiarity with them, but god dang. Yuck.
When you realize what else is out there, it’s awful.