You hate the Touch Bar so much that if Apple's next round of laptops includes one you'll stop using macOS and start using Linux (or Windows) on your laptop instead?
Right now I have an Air. Besides price, the main reason for getting an Air was not having the touch bar. That's non negotiable for me.
I want to both beef up the memory/processing power of my laptop and switch to Linux (which comes with built-in performance bonus of native Docker). So I am headed to ThinkPad anyway, but there's a chance Apple could keep me locked in if they make a nicely-powered proper dev machine with no damn touch bar.
Migrating to Big Sur has been a pain in the ass even though I am still on an Intel model.
Tons of Python language versions and packages are a total PITA to get built on Big Sur.
To be fair this seems to be a pretty Python-specific issue, but the inability to do much about it really has dug the feeling into me that I don't own/control my machine, Apple does.
Sadly not that much, but I for one really dislike their decision on keeping it. It adds no value at all to my workflow; quite the contrary - It distracts and disrupts me a lot. Would love to get rid of it; but I learned to ignore it. There are apps that can completely disable it (Nocturnal).
I want to both beef up the memory/processing power of my laptop and switch to Linux (which comes with built-in performance bonus of native Docker). So I am headed to ThinkPad anyway, but there's a chance Apple could keep me locked in if they make a nicely-powered proper dev machine with no damn touch bar.
Migrating to Big Sur has been a pain in the ass even though I am still on an Intel model. Tons of Python language versions and packages are a total PITA to get built on Big Sur.
To be fair this seems to be a pretty Python-specific issue, but the inability to do much about it really has dug the feeling into me that I don't own/control my machine, Apple does.