Comment by habitue
4 years ago
I feel like even Richard Stallman would have had a hard time imagining non-free operating systems would result in this.
Use linux folks! It doesn't communicate with a third party when a process starts up!
4 years ago
I feel like even Richard Stallman would have had a hard time imagining non-free operating systems would result in this.
Use linux folks! It doesn't communicate with a third party when a process starts up!
No, I think this is exactly what Stallman predicted.
(As someone else already linked: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html)
It's just sad that we don't have the corresponding form factor in a similar laptop.
The biggest draw of mac:
1. slim, light 2. long battery life. 3. track pad.
That's all I want, but nobody else offers it on the same spec, the difference is even bigger with M1.
It is strange how many people will sacrifice so much for free speech and the right to bear arms (like tolerating school shootings and foreign interference in elections), but offer them the "freedom OS" and they'll pick the slightly better trackpad.
Does no one here have principles?
Fuck yes I'll pick the slightly better trackpad. To a point anyway. Sitting for upwards of 8 hours a day typing code can be a depressing life trap to find yourself in. If every time I touched my trackpad I cringed because it feels like sandpaper, works like shit, and might not even have good first party driver support, only to be consoled by the the thought that I could install Windows on it if I wanted to, I'd probably not be too satisfied.
I have an expensive chair, that I could only really get fixed by the company that made it. I could have a shitty chair that hurts my ass, messes with my posture, costs 1/12th the price, that I could sit in and re-assure myself that I'm free to get commodity parts anywhere I want, but I'd prefer not to do that unless I had no choice.
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I didn't say I was that kind of people.
Your description of them was also not exactly flattering.
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I have the Dell Inspiron 7000 for those exact reasons and could not be happier. It runs Linux out of the box too :)
I think Razer would satisfy those 3 criteria. Razer is known for their line of high-end laptops with comparable design and arguably better specifications than the MacBook line. They are mainly marketed to gamers, but could easily double as development workstations. There's even a pretty well-maintained set of Razer hardware drivers for linux (https://openrazer.github.io/#project).
They also have the cloud connected peripherals bullshit. Probably best to avoid Razer, if you want your expensive xmas light to work as a mouse even when you happen to be offline.
What's wrong with a Thinkpad?
trackpad mostly. It just doesn't compare.
Otherwise they're mostly the same, until M1.
Not made by Apple.
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> 1. slim, light 2. long battery life. 3. track pad.
https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/
A Thinkpad Carbon X1 will be as slim and as light with excellent battery life.
I do not use track pads for actual work so I can't compare but I've heard that you can't really beat the Mac ones.
You can run Linux on a Macbook.
After running Xubuntu and Fedora on a MacBook for several months, I don't recommend it; not all drivers are available and sleep functionality is finicky. Running Windows on a MacBook was even worse in terms of graphics card support. Running linux on a cheap thinkpad will perform better imo.
Alternativelym you can also run macOS on linux. I had luck with Docker-OSX
https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
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