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Comment by pbnjay | Hacker News Reader

Should be re-titled "Behind ON the Mac" to fit better.

I use my early 2015 MacBook Pro for some heavy work, I would love to upgrade soon but TBH I'm looking more at Thinkpads than Apple products right now...

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I'd caution against this, because I've done it. I'm using a 2016 MacBook Pro for basically everything from design work to development. Getting fired up and setting up my workflow took no effort. I bought another laptop to run linux/windows and my god everything took so much longer to do. Most applications would require me to pull up some third party documentation to install. By the time that was done the task would have already been done on the MacBook. Now that laptop just sits and hosts a plex server or plays some games.

But that doesn't mean I wouldn't like things to get better because Apple is seriously dragging their feet. The touchbar is super annoying and really miss having actual buttons. It's beautiful hardware but would love more focus on figuring out the mess of port issues. Too many adapters!

I used linux for 10+ years before switching to Mac and riding the iPhone gravy train. I'm transitioning back to backend work, so I don't need the GUIs anymore.

I spend most of my time in a text editor and terminal, so avoiding underpowered hardware and a terrible keyboard are completely necessary. The sad thing is that Apple used to be top-notch on this.

me too... current dell and thinkpads are very good specwise and lookwise, even the touch pad is pretty good. if they sell Linux laptops I will get it the next day.

Dell sells Linux laptops.

Thinkpads are Linux certified, I've installed Ubuntu on everything from ancient models to a just-released X1 Yoga and in my experience all the important things (excluding, say, fingerprint reader) "just work" out of the box.

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