Hacker News Reader

My 2011 Macbook has been hanging on and functioning well with some upgrades. When I do finally replace it, it will be with a linux laptop. I'm not interested in paying that ridiculous price for a computer that sacrifices functionality for aesthetics. I fully expect that there will be some trade offs in the "Just Works" category, but I've been using linux as the driver on my desktop for a while with few issues.

View on HN

I'm about to switch to Linux from my 2010 MBP (which is still basically working) and my main motivation is exactly the fact that "Just Works" no longer applies to MacBooks.

My £2800 company MBP has half-broken USB-C ports, malfunctioning Touch Bar, various audio issues, and I can't use Blender to render on the GPU because of Apple's shitty outdated OpenGL. I could have two Linux laptops with better specs for the price of this piece of fancy aluminium, and a similar amount of bugs/broken stuff.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com