Converting a machine that works well out of the box into a machine that requires custom scripts and constant tinkering to handle simple tasks seems like a waste of time.
I get better battery life, because I can turn off things I don't need.
I don't have to restart the audio service before every Zoom call.
I don't have to reboot to get external monitors to work again.
My Yubikey doesn't drain the battery in a few hours.
My system boots to the login screen in the time it takes for the Apple logo to finish showing.
I don't have to fight with the App store to keep software up-to-date.
I don't have to work around a shitty developer experience with homebrew or docker/virtual machines.
I never have to deal with Xcode!
In any case, I probably spent a tenth of the time setting everything up, tweaks and all, than I did unfucking the default install of OS X to be usable.
> I get better battery life, because I can turn off things I don't need.
I had horrible experiences with Linux and battery life on laptops. Fans on all the time, poor or absent support for sleep and hibernate... Proprietary systems consistently performed better for me in that area.
> I don't have to restart the audio service before every Zoom call.
That's really weird. I wouldn't even know how to restart the audio service on OsX.
> I don't have to reboot to get external monitors to work again.
I have occasional issues in that area, but typically it just takes a bit of "nagging" osx to re-detect the monitor, like bringing up the System Preferences panel related to wallpapers.
> My system boots to the login screen in the time it takes for the Apple logo to finish showing.
One shouldn't need to reboot OsX more than once weekly, or less, but yeah, boot times in OsX have gone to the dogs in the last few years. Windows absolutely smokes it, I guess some Linux distros would too.
> I don't have to fight with the App store to keep software up-to-date.
It's been alright until recently, but I agree that the last few moves to persuade us to move to "Vistalina" have been annoying.
> I probably spent a tenth of the time setting everything up, tweaks and all, than I did unfucking the default install of OS X
That's really the opposite for me. The time I always end up spending on stuff like fonts (!) on the average Linux desktop, is just ridiculous.
I have a 2019 mbp16. It does not "work well". For me, the graphics driver crashes me out of my login session pretty much daily, the network stack occasionally shits itself (reboot) and various internal processes (the... window server?) like to use >50% CPU for no reason at all.
Looking around, I'm not the only one who has issues.
Probably yours is broken somehow. Would recommend bringing it in for service while it's in warranty.
My whole shop uses Macs and nobody has this issue. I’m on one of three different variant MBPs (including one like yours) all day every day - literally around 18 hours a day - and I’ve never seen it.
That’s why I would really suggest opening a ticket on it, especially with a new laptop. I suspect there’s a hardware issue.
It's rife with issues. Power management is odd, brightness sometimes doesn't work, and most annoyingly, the keyboard and trackpad sometimes stops working after 2-3 weeks of 24/7 operation.
I solved most of the issues by disabling the GUI and just letting it boot to the console. I also set mitigations to off in GRUB and it ran cooler. Not ideal with security in mind, but it's just a home server after all.
That may be your experience, but it's not universal. I wanted to do this, regardless of how many hacks it took, but I'm on the new-and-broken model unfortunately.