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Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not trying to shill for Apple or anything, but I have found MacBooks (excluding the 2015 MacBook, and the 2016-2020 Air and Pro models) to be extremely stable and reliable, especially since they use their custom ARM CPU/SOCs. It reminds me of the good old PowerPC days, these machines were also reliable, basically unbreakable like a tank. In build quality, hardware and software. With the ARM transition, Apple really appears to have brought back the glory days of computing (unfortunately not in terms of upgradability and repairability, but at least in quality, stability and reliability).

I'm even more excited for the continiously improving Linux support on these devices - thanks to the amazing Asahi Linux ([email protected]) project. Also consider following them on Mastodon: @[email protected]

[–] Ptsf 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I will say I've never ever even once had an issue with my M1 pro 16", can't say that about any other laptop I've owned (be it battery swelling, software bugs, or "issues" one learns to live with like sleep mode causing boot crashes or sleep mode draining battery %). Kinda amazing in hindsight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I will say I’ve never ever even once had an issue with my M1 pro 16",

Same for my M1 Pro 14", the only issue I have is that the macOS version of Firefox just absolutely obliterates my battery, I mostly use Safari now, because it's much better optimized. That's really quite unfortunate, but it's not Apple's fault, and I don't see any hope for this, unless Mozilla decides to continue development of the Rust-based Servo browser engine, and eventually Firefox may switch away from the antiquated and incredibly inefficient Gecko code.