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by rowanG077 145 days ago
TBH my asahi M2 macbook experience has been the best linux experience I have ever had. It's night and day compared to the XPS 13 I had before which was supposedly a well supported laptop for linux, you could even buy it with ubuntu.

The only real drawback is no thunderbolt, and till recently no DP, and no x86 support. But I don't use any x86 only apps enough for it to matter. No thunderbolt sucks though.
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dangus 144 days ago
Having multiple hardware features broken isn’t anything close to my best Linux experience.

I’ve got a framework 13 and literally nothing is broken, device firmware updates happen automatically through Linux, literally more integrated with the hardware than a windows laptop.

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rowanG077 143 days ago
One hardware feature really. Besides thunderbolt there really isn't anything that doesn't work. I happily give up thunderbolt over the significantly worse performance of the SoC and screen in the framework 13. Especially the screen is terrible. When I purchased my macbook the framework 13 was top of the list of alternatives. But I can't bear a bad screen. Note that I never use macos, I purchased the macbook with the goal of running linux on it. Macbook was simply one of the best supported devices.
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