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I'm annoyed with the idea of getting a Mac (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know this is going to be unpopular with some, but I am seriously considering a Mac and I am annoyed by the idea of it.

I NEED MacOS or Windows for my work. There is one application that does not work in Linux yet and there are no alternatives. It is a critical work application.

With that being said, you can probably guess that Linux is my preferred OS of choice.

I am currently using a Windows desktop for my work, but I do run into situations where I need a laptop. The laptop I am using now is a Thinkpad from 2021 with Fedora. I actually really love this computer. My only real complain is that the webcam is pretty garbage.

So, I think I need a new computer. My choices are Windows laptops which have decent pricing with good specs, or Apple which is extremely expensive for what you get.

I'm really annoyed with Windows' ads, bloat, and general lack of privacy; specifically Recall. On the other hand, it is hard to justify spending an extra $400 on a Macbook air just to get a 1tb hard drive. My work files alone take up a little more than 200gb.

I guess this is just a rant. I'm not looking for any solutions as what I am really looking is the ability to use Linux for my work which is not an option at the moment.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Did you test windows in a VM?

Did you test wine?

You could also just buy an external camera if that's the problem?

I understand the disliking of windows because of privacy but you use it for work. Windows is not really going to spy on much.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yo did consider this but my current laptop doesn’t run windows in a vm well enough. I think the cpu is too weak.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

There is no way any laptop from 2021 doesn't run windows well enough in a VM. Did you give it only 1 core? 2 gigs of ram? Did you not install the guest tools so you get stuff like 3d acceleration?

At work we run windows in a VM on 15 year old hardware with 0 graphics acceleration and it does A OK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

What CPU do you have? Have you enabled hardware accelerated virtualization in the BIOS? Did you do any tweaking when running the VM? I had a Windows 10 VM on a 2013 laptop, so what you are describing might just be bad configuration.

Enabling virtualization in the BIOS is required for usable performance. Tweaks are optional but I highly recommend them because out of the box Windows VM feels pretty sluggish mainly because of bad graphics configuration. For that I use Quickemu which is a script that automatically sets up your VM for optimal performance. (Works for MacOS VMs too but I have not tried it) Finally you can try debloating your Windows 10 installation with Chris Titus' Winutil, which btw also includes some useful Windows tools like a GUI for package manager.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

That's odd... My laptop is a shitty E-series Thinkpad from 2018 with 16 GB RAM and runs Windows in a VM quite well.