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Too little, too late. I bought an X1 Carbon earlier this summer and have been pleasantly surprised by Ubuntu.

I don't think I'll be in the market again for another 2-3 years and by then I may be fully sold on Linux.

I was a hardcore mac enthusiast from 2006-2018... But the past few years have resulted in a lot of disdain for the company.

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That’s great but you are a tiny tiny minority.

If this is true, then how do you explain where it says in the article they sold the fewest macs for the quarter since 2010?

Well, I or example am still running my macbook pro late 2013.. I have no reason yet to upgrade. Also, the "worldwide pc shipments effectively flat in Q1 2018"

Same here. At least for the moment I’m happily running Arch on an X1. Not that there aren’t tradeoffs but man, Apple has been killing me the last few years. I can’t do the dongle life.

And I'm running NixOS on P71. More possibilities as a developer than a Mac.

What do you plug in that means you need dongles?

Your screen can go into the USB-C, so can power. What else are you plugging into a laptop that can't be done over WiFi or Bluetooth?

Yes, a screen’s HDMI can go to USB-C… with a dongle. Am I guaranteed the upstairs conference room will have one? Nope, better pack the dongle. USB drives, USB headphone/mic adapter, the list goes on and on. I’m not saying it has to bother you but it does me.

And when the MacBook had HDMI I had to carry dongles for VGA and DisplayPort. One person's native format is another's required adapter.

Sure, but HDMI and mini-DisplayPort covered my needs pretty well without adapters. Was it perfect? No. Was it usually enough? Yes.

You can buy USB-C enclosures off eBay for like $10.

And the MacBooks have a 3.5mm headphone/microphone adapter.

Same, but I went with a Razer Blade 15 which also replaces my gaming desktop machine. Ubuntu has been surprisingly usable for development work.

I went back and forth between a full Linux desktop/laptop, and in the end I moved my environment over to the existing Windows 10 gaming PC with WSL(Windows Subsystem for Linux). Its been awesome. Now I get two full usable environments on the same machine, without missing software that only runs on mac/windows. I just can't deal with my aging 2008 mac pro anymore, and whatever new Mac Pro that comes out will be something so ridiculously priced, that it's not worth it anyhow for most pros.

What's your opinion on the Superfish incident[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...

Give i3wm a shot, you'll be amazed on how your workflow improves.

Eh I used i3 on my personal laptop and work desktop for about two years but eventually traded it in for Gnome and don't miss it.

i3 does make me feel more productive but I don't think it actually made me more productive. The idea that switching between windows in a slightly suboptimal way decreases productivity significantly is just not true in my experience.

What drew me to Gnome was that the font rendering looked better and it's the default option for Fedora and now Ubuntu, so setting up a new workstation is super easy.

I'm on Windows most of the time now. Still have a laptop with Fedora and Gnome for when I need it though.

Dude, twm is all you need.

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