Comment by 999900000999
8 hours ago
>We’ve also made changes to the Power menu so you’ll always see the standard Restart and Shut down options without having to install a pending update first. You decide when updates happen, not the other way around.
Multiple times I've wanted to shutdown my laptop so I can go home and Windows says no, sit here for 5 minutes.
I don't trust sleep mode to not keep running and overheat, so I wait.
Macbooks with 1TB drives are getting cheaper every day. Music production on Linux isn't really practical. A lot of this stuff barely runs on Windows/OSX.
Competition is great. But this is about the Mac Neo( and left over M4 Macs crashing in price ). Desktop Linux is still a challenge.
I consider myself an advanced Linux user, and it still took me an hour this morning to figure out how to get a VPN to work on Open Suse.
> I don't trust sleep mode to not keep running and overheat, so I wait.
People have been expressing their dissatisfaction at Windows Updates strategy for so long - Modern Standby was so badly implemented it basically cooked laptops in bags and while leaving users wondering what was happening. I had to reflow a laptop because of it.
> Macbooks with 1TB drives are getting cheaper every day.
Also high-speed external storage is very accessible now - so having large built in storage for your DAW isn't really necessary. The 1 USB 3 port on the MacBook Neo is more than fast enough for this.
> Music production on Linux isn't really practical.
I would somewhat disagree with this. Linux has much better low-latency, multi application audio support than Windows & Mac now (via JACK) and some pretty incredible native DAWs like Bitwig - so the moat certainly isn't as large as it used to be. I would say it's practical if your workflow doesn't require features of Mac/Windows or tools specific to those platforms.
As impractical as it would be for normal users - even Ableton works pretty well under WINE.
> Competition is great. But this is about the Mac Neo( and left over M4 Macs crashing in price ). Desktop Linux is still a challenge.
I think between this and they've maybe had a bit of a scare from Valve and SteamOS - because that's historically been one of their other big moats. They kicked off a similar initiative to make Windows nicer for gamers back in December.
I agree that desktop Linux is still a challenge - it's better than it used to be and you can get away without a terminal now if you're just doing basic Internet/Office tasks. In a lot of places the UX can get pretty gnarly.
A lot of VSTs really don't work well with Wine. I also really just don't want to fight with wine. I haven't had a good experience with it outside of gaming via Steam.
I hate external drives with a passion. Unless the computer itself is stationary, like a Mac Mini.
My current setup is a 400$ laptop plus a 2 TB I brought for about 100$.
It's not perfect, but it's good enough for me.
If I move on from this, it's straight to a 1TB Macbook. You have a degree of assurance things will work on a Mac.
On Windows and Linux no one knows why your audio isn't working.
With Apple ONE company is responsible.
Most people never install an OS. So unless valve or someone comes out with a $400 Linux book, Linux is going to remain a niche OS.
However, I do believe Linux can grant a lot of "obsolete" Windows laptops a second life. I'd love to donate to a charity that rehabs old Windows laptops with Linux.
For light programming, and email, a 100$ used laptop off eBay is probably enough. At 250$ I've seen a lot of very capable machines.