Comment by kyledrake
10 months ago
I tried a Macbook again when the M1 chips came out, and wasn't impressed with the performance. Despite incredible benchmarks, the interface just felt bloated and sluggish.
The biggest issue for me though was Darwin's weird psuedo-complete unix environment. All of my production servers are Linux, and it's a real pain to have to torture software that works great on Linux over to Apple's OS. Homebrew is nice, but even that would fail sometimes, and if the software wasn't available I would have to wait for someone smarter than me to port it. Also, it's weird that the community has to maintain this despite Apple having a gajillion dollars because they simply do not care about OSS.
More of a personal ancedote, but in the end all I'm really using a computer for is a web browser, code editing, and running linux production software locally. Just made more sense to stay on Linux, which I run on an excellent Framework laptop. It feels nice to be out of the software bloat treadmill.
I feel like M chips are for those who’s upgrade cycle is over 5 years like me. Coming from MBP 2015 to M2 is stunning.
What distro do you run on the framework? Ubuntu feels bloated and the software is old. The framework laptop is much, much worse than a MacBook Pro. The comparison isn't even remotely apples to apples.
I wish there was a perfect solution, but man. Comparing a framework laptop with ubuntu to an MBP with MacOS is crazy from anything but a cost perspective.
Xubuntu. It doesn't feel bloated at all. The software I use is Firefox and VSC, which update almost on a weekly basis sometimes, neither of them feel "old". I've actually been considering switching to something else from VSC because it changes too much and is getting kind of bloated for me, I really just want a text editor with syntax highlighting and a file list on the left panel.
If I was to nit-pick, I would say that having competing package managers apt and snap is annoying and I've considered switching to Debian over that.
The real surprise to me was that I liked the Framework trackpad more than the Macbook one. I assumed that would be the best thing about the Macbook and was surprised when it wasn't.
I sold it to a friend and she loved it. To each their own I guess.