Curious - what do you do on your Linux (or FreeBSD natch) box that your m1 could...

Philpax · 2025-11-18T00:08:47 1763424527

For me, it's always been the lack of a power-user-friendly windowing/workspace scheme. You can approximate a tiling window manager using yabai or similar solutions, but it's just not the same thing.

I love using the MacBooks, but the OS just doesn't feel like it was designed for me, and that would be OK, but I have limited alternatives if I want all of the hardware to keep working.

Also, yes, gaming, but that's less important to me.

bigyabai · 2025-11-17T18:35:12 1763404512

I'm surprised that anyone has to ask, anymore:

- Locked, proprietary bootloader with no guaranteed Linux support

- No official Vulkan drivers, DXVK broken without downstream patches (unlike every other GPU I own)

- Every Docker solution runs worse than WSL (somehow)

- macOS is ad-ridden and genuinely intolerable

- APFS is borderline useless relative to EXT4 and NTFS, doubly so if you collaborate at work

spicybbq · 2025-11-17T22:37:40 1763419060

What I get from this is a description of how it is locked down, but not really an explanation of what you wish to do but cannot.

bigyabai · 2025-11-19T01:24:00 1763515440

I'm so sorry, can you attempt to infer based on the clues I've left you?

spicybbq · 2025-11-27T03:22:20 1764213740

Maybe try having a conversation instead of being so defensive.

vessenes · 2025-11-17T22:47:09 1763419629

So, gaming and x64 native docker?

I presume collaboration at work means some sort of remote mounting of filesystems -- is `brew install samba` bad in some way?

Re: ads - this is genuinely my complaint with Windows, but I thought I was getting a pretty ad-free experience in Mac, what am I missing?

undeveloper · 2025-11-18T00:24:27 1763425467

.. macOS is ad-ridden? perhaps I'm already brain broken, but beyond like a few ads for icloud pro for time machine or whatever when I'm already poking around in relavent settings, I never see ads. it feels extremely unobtrusive. the other points are not relevant to me, so I suppose it makes sense why I don't care, but iirc apple's `container` OCI runner is highly optimized for the M series, did you have significant issues with it?