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abhixec··on Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?
Yes I am with you on that one. Not supporting Apple by any means here but if your workflow is cloud based you could get away with 256. As a software dev. my work laptop sadly or surprisingly is 256 and I haven't hit the storage limit on it. No running any code locally everything is on a sandboxed dev. machine.
abhixec··on Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?
But could provide one of the thousand that you are having trouble running on MacOS? Genuinely curious despite my comment sounding like I am trying to defend MacOS.
abhixec··on Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?
If you you can single command in Linux, what prevented you to do the same on Macos? brew install <the_commandline_tool> and you should have been able to run the command in macos too.
abhixec··on Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?
I was using Ubuntu shortly, certainly a great experience contrary to the hate I see for it in some Linux communities. I do not like snap(probably gotten better in the last 6 months since I used Ubuntu).
abhixec··on Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?
Haha sadly I am a all in or nothing kind of a person. I have a Thinkpad X1E and Macbook pro m2. If I decide Linux then I will go complete anti-Apple denounce my Apple devices and same for if I chose for Apple :P. Maybe that is where I am having trouble :P
abhixec··on Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?
Macbook Air is 999$ 16G RAM and 256Gb. I think if you look at the competition you would be right about the same territory but with better battery, perf of M silicon chip. For that price I think it is really hard to beat Apple. But once you go on the upgrade from base config that is when it begins to stop making sense and look elsewhere.
abhixec··on Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?
But the sad thing is most manufactures are following apple and soldering the components so repair ability is questionable whichever way we look.
abhixec··on Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?
I think the laptop lid atleast for me hasnt been an issue lately on my thinkpad.
abhixec··on Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?
One thing I think macos is better is connecting to high resolution monitors without issues. My attempts to connect my thinkpad x1e to 5k (could be the dreaded nvidia which is causing this) causes so much headache.
abhixec··on Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?
Sorry i should have made it clearer in my post, I have been using archlinux and xmonad for more than 10 years but i do reevaluate the choices i make/made. While the power settings has gotten a lot better over the course i was wondering if there is any laptop+os that gives close to macbook battery life.
abhixec··on Switching from QWERTY to Colemak and Back
After six years I am back to qwerty as well. https://maudlinruminations.com/posts/colemak_6years.html Those who don't want to increase my page hits

high level TL;DR: I chose convenience of qwerty being there everywhere and realizing that qwerty isn't really that bad.

abhixec··on XMonad 0.13 released
I am now going to try KWM on my work macos
abhixec··on XMonad 0.13 released
XMonad is moving really fast. It was on 0.11 for quiet sometime and now it it 0.13. Love/Miss XMonad, since I use mac work. One of the reason s I want to get a Linux machine for personal use.
abhixec··on GitHub is down
ah my bad. I didn't realize that gogs was a single maintainer management model.
abhixec··on GitHub is down
Is there any particular reason why this is recommended over Gogs?
abhixec··on GitHub is down
I have been using gogs on a raspberry pi for my personal use and I really like it. My use case has mostly been for hosting repositories that I don't want to share publicly or use for my personal needs.
abhixec··on AWS IoT Button
me too