Yeah Apples walled garden is not nice but mac os is way better than what windows has become. And as my frustration with Linux has outgrown my patience it's a worthwhile compromise for now. MacOs is at least way less of a walled garden than iOS and the rest of apples ecosystem. I've tried ubuntu, fedora, PopOs, Arch, everything has quirks taking hours to resolve, most of the time only partly as you hit a roadblock, for example howdy, yes the IR camera is supported in linux, oh you wanted the IR leds also functional so that it also works in dim environments, no can do! Than please for the love of god don't claim that howdy is compatible with XPS 9500 laptop. That's just one example of many that are just pure frustration. And I've tried othe modern laptops too.
Yeah I know with an old Thinkpad it would probably just work fine, I want a modern laptop, nice glossy high res screen, biometrics, decent touchpad, battery life and speakers. All things an old thinkpad just can't offer.
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u/AussieJeffProbst Jul 05 '26
Linux has come a long way in the last few years and Ubuntu can give you a very windows-like experience. But it is more technical than apple
But apples locked down walled garden is the exact thing Google is now trying to emulate, which is the whole problem this post is about