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(I've got an Airbook M2) Windows became unusable for me around 8, now it's an ad-filled dumpster fire.
I'm amazed at how quickly Asahi has developed hardware support, Linux isn't a serious option for me, yet, so I'm stuck with macos. If somebody wants to port Haiku to the M2, with flawless hardware support, including accelerated video, and power management, that would be great, and probably no more than an hours work. Or port Mac OS X Panther/Tiger {Rant starts, you can stop reading now } I offer no solution, and this isn't really a criticism, but an observation: Linux,... I'm glad it exists, but I've reached JWZ's CADT point. I'm amazed at all the hard work, but. I can't use it. It's always something, and I'm too "old" or lazy to care anymore. I've used Linux since Slackware with kernel 1.2, I remember ipfwadm, I've configured XFree86 Modelines. I bought Caldera OpenLinux, that included Word Perfect (and let you play a game while it installed). Over the years, I've used RedHat, Fedora (Core), openSuse, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandrake, and more as a daily or sometimes daily driver. The entire concept of a "distro" is just sort of absurd, 99% the same software - Linux Kernel, GNU+misc Userland, Xorg/Wayland, some sort of desktop or GUI toolkit, and all the same open source apps. I don't care about package managers, or init systems, or kernel versions anymore. I don't know or want to know about the merits of FLapak Or Snaps, I just want to use the damn apps. Now get off my lawn! |
My latest thing has been Solus Linux. The hardware has "just worked", the package management is genuinely original, it has a stable rolling-release and definitely cleaner feeling than the Debian/Redhat landscape(I have not opened a command line for packages, not even once!), it has a MATE desktop(which they plan to switch over to XFCE, but it's basically the same to me - tried and true over bold and new) and the remaining bits of snowflake software work in a VM running whatever other OS.
So the computer has finally gotten out of the way for me, at least until I do software development. But that's one of the things I bottle up in the VM, and the only associated hassle of that is the edit/test cycle, for which I just forgo IDE functions to do fast local editing and try not to rely on a fast iteration loop otherwise. I've learned that it mostly gets you to wrong answers faster and the insights need time anyway.