Was in the market for a Linux laptop for son who's entering college.... Dug through lenovo and saying that it's hard to find decent info on Linux support is an understatement...
Finally got an e14 g6 AMD.... It's not supported by lenovo for Linux but everything got Auto detected and worked except fingerprint
The bummer: suspend to ram is terribly broken and for a laptop that's a deal breaker
Yeah I'm aware of framework and system 76... They aren't here. The pricier lenovo options exist but at that point is just go with a mac
haven't run windows in ages (15yrs). Can't even make sense of windows anymore since at work moved to Mac. Unfortunately, looks like I will need to now since for a laptop (thinkpad - AMD - sleep/suspend might be a dead end)
So what's the 'best' edition of windows ('best' for privacy/least crapware/adware/AI slop)? I can get any version.
Not sure about specific ones here... But I feel financial basics should be a mandatory course before graduation... Maybe it is available as electives in other counties but here in India, fresh graduates are shockingly illiterate financially... Things to cover
Just today had Gemini write a shell spot for me that had to generate a relative symlink..
Getting it to work xplat on linux & mac took more than ten tries and I stopped reading after the second
At the end, I spent probably more time and learnt nothing..
My initial take was that this is the kind of thing I don't care much for so giving it to a llm is OK... However, by the end of it I ended up more frustrated and lost it in the simulation of working things out aa well
Sort of like once you get used to GPS to get anywhere, you stop developing any further directional sense but even existing capabilities start withering away
This is interesting because I don't feel like my directional sense has withered at all because of GPS, but I do think it was important that I develop a sense of how to navigate and use maps before I introduced GPS.
I find this is similar in my experience with AI: I pick up tidbits and tricks from AI when it's doing something I'm familiar with, but if I have it working with a completely novel framework or language it quickly races ahead and I'm essentially steering it blind, which inevitably fails.
So this may come off as salty but in just wondering if I'm the only one
After years if Windows (at work) and Linux at home, I'm now using a Mac at work... Boy...it has its share of warts (like the other two)...and, imho, not the apex of design/usability that everyone raves about
1. Can't show address bar in finder... Seriously, go copy windows or any DE explorer
2. System bar (menu bar?)doesn't handle overflow? Where are the pitchforks ? Have to install Ice from github
3. Wanted to launch an app with CLI params and the Automator etc seems clunky... Both Linux and win do this better
I like the hw and battery life and the sw stack (nix) but UX is at par with windows minus sneaky behaviour..
I mostly don't care since primary goal was a nix for development but UX was a let down... I'll take GNOME any day ( is been rock solid and I don't recall the last time it crashed)
Yet, even here on hn I've never come across any griping at Mac os ux niggles ever
Technically true but… i’m curious in which situation this is a problem for you? 99.9% of times I used the address bar on Windows is either copy-pasting the current path in the console (but on Mac I simply drag whatever file/folder on the terminal window et voilà, nicely shell-escaped too), or to go to a different folder (and either the bottom Finder hierarchy or cmd-g take care of most of that).
A lot of it comes down to what a person is used to. I have a similar gripe about the lack of flexibility with Gnome's address bar, simply because I sometimes want to type in a path rather than navigate to it by clicking on icons.
In rooting for Asahi.. Linux on Mac hw would be so nice
Realistically though, in spite of the heroic effort it'll always be crippled in some way OR if they manage to close the gap enough, Apple might still screw them (and end users) over with the next firmware update
Experts to verify but overall the entire system available for inspection to the populace at will (so open source, reproducible builds, verifiability) etc
There will still be questions around compromised keys/secrets
