You can use alternatives to Apple’s phones, tablets, desktops, headphones; but there is no Macbook alternative. It is just too good for mobile usage.
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astraeus@programming.dev 5 months agoI just bought a MacBook because I’ve been trying to do Linux for work but there are some things that just don’t work and I’m not interested in Windows. I’m turning into an Apple bro, someone help me.
syd@lemy.lol 5 months ago
admiralteal@kbin.social 5 months ago
I hear this all time to time and I just don't understand it.
My 9-year-old Windows laptop does literally everything I need a mobile notebook to do (which unfortunately includes a bunch of software like AutoCAD which just gives a double middle finger to Linux). It's reliable, boots quickly, doesn't frequently bug out, has more than enough battery to never make me stressed and scrambling for outlets, and all these things. It's windows 10 and not signed into an MS account. It can run powershell, python scripts, all those little sugar things that make computers less horrible to use. I'm not forced into any weird proprietary rabbit holes by the OS and have all MS telemetry shut down on it.
If not for bad actors like ASHTO or AutoDesk, I'm quite confident the notebook would be working just as well with something like Mint Linux on it.
What the hell is it that Macbooks are doing that my notebook can't? I just don't get it.
syd@lemy.lol 5 months ago
I’m full-time arch user btw but sometimes I need/want to go office or a place like coffee shop. There I’m using Macbook. My pros are:
- 10 hours usage
- no fan noise
- fast as f*ck (not as fast as desktops TBH)
- good screen. I can easily see screen in sunny days (I don’t know about it’s tech but I guess it is OLED or MiniLED)
- and the most important pro to me is: a touch pad that optimized for laptop usage. It has so many shortcuts to use whole system with only touchpad.
There are different laptops that have some of these features, but I have yet to find one that has them all. I hope this situation will improve with ARM laptops.
admiralteal@kbin.social 5 months ago
Well, I certainly don't get 10 hours, more like 5-6, but have also never in my life and hopefully never will need to sit in the same public place for 10 continuous hours using my notebook. God help me, my life is so off the rails if that ever happens that I don't even want to consider it.
The rest of those things my budget notebook does just fine. Maybe if I used these touchpad shortcuts that the Mac offers it would change my life, but I've always massively preferred navigating the OS with the keyboard and have always found the way Mac application windows and taskbars work totally unitiutive and fighty.
On the whole though, even if I accept everything you said at face value, it's still just... not an argument for "there is no alternative". Seems to me my ancient ASUS is a perfectly reasonable alternative, especially considering it was a less than a third the price of the Macbook even when it was new.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 months ago
If you’re developing apps for Mac or making music, I can definitely understand. For sure there are reasons not to go windows and then you’re just left with Mac, but many many people just look for excuses - or don’t care about budding monopolies. I find fault with that 🤷
astraeus@programming.dev 5 months ago
My company uses Teams and Outlook, both of which have to be PWA on Linux and they’re terrible in that form. Also, being able to run Logic and Final Cut will be an added bonus. The main reason for the switch is reliability, iOS isn’t an amazing OS for tweaking and personalizing down to the kernel level, but it is great for having an environment to just get stuff done. I’ve worked with numerous iOS devices in the past and have never felt like they are unreliable.
novibe@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
It really doesn’t matter… there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Just use what’s more practical or better in any way for you.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 months ago
That’s a cop out. If you make no effort, then of course nothing will change. You can look for brands that try to be ethical like FairPhone or Fair Trade brands. If all you do keep buying from the biggest, baddest brands out there, well, you’re part of the problem. They wouldn’t be rich without people like you.
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novibe@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
There are no “good” brands under capitalism. The issue is not of the moral failing of individual companies. We can’t solve the issues of capitalism by “consuming” right.
You think fairphone has no slave-labour rare-earth metals in them?
onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 months ago
Riddle me this: can flawed being create a perfect system?
Also, is your “solution” to living in an evil, capitalistic society being a consumer of the biggest capitalistic brands?
Everything is black and white? There’s no in-between? Fairphone is thus as bad as Apple?
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