[lordofgibbons]

If you're going through so much trouble to reverse engineer macOS to customize it in a non-standard way, why even bother staying in the Apple walled prison. Why not just use Linux at that point? You can customize it to your heart's desire.

[dmitrygr]

Because there is nobody who makes linux devices of equal battery life and performance to macbooks, nor does linux wake up from sleep as reliably.

[lordofgibbons]

fair point on the battery life. though my Thinkpad x9 gets a solid 8-10 hours of heavy coding session on a single charge.

> nor does linux wake up from sleep as reliably.

This hasn't been a problem for at least the past 7ish years.

[dmitrygr]

8 hours was impressive in 2019. Nowadays, I don’t take a charger for my MBA with me on weekend trips. It is life-changing.

[cosmic_cheese]

Because in order to get the Linux desktop I’d want, customization of existing desktops isn’t nearly enough. I’d need to write my own DE, because all of the existing options are just too far diverged from the desired end result.

I’m sure there’s others sticking to macOS on their primary machines for that reason.