I choose a Macbook because it's my terminal. I'm given the choice "Macbook" or "Windows laptop". I'm forced to use Microsoft products and they're actively hostile to Linux. My laptop is really just a glorified ssh machine, with a web browser, and corporate shovelware. Life is so much better in the terminal. Home is 192.168.1.0/24 and 100.64.0.0/10, it doesn't matter what screen I'm using. Home is where the ssh connection is.

▲ seniorThrowaway 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>I'm forced to use Microsoft products and they're actively hostile to Linux

How so? Powershell has openSSH built in now, and WSL2 basically works minus some annoying behavior and caveats. I have a Windows 11 laptop and I use it like you are saying as an ssh machine and web browser without much issue.

▲ godelski an hour ago | parent | next [-]

  > WSL2 basically works minus some annoying behavior and caveats.

It is a lot of annoying things. Everything is just so clunky and I don't think it is surprising given that it is a subsystem. At least in the mac I can still access the computer I'm typing on through the terminal. I mean yeah, I can do that with Winblows but it is non-native and clunky. I mean ever try to open a folder with a few hundred images in it? (outside the terminal) I didn't even know this was an issue that needed to be solved. For comparison, I can open a folder in the GUI of my linux machine that has 50k images (yay datasets) and in <1s I can load the previews. In my terminal, it is almost instant (yes, I can see the images in my terminal, and yes, it is this type of stuff that is a lot clunkier on Windows).

And on top of that, as frustrating as OSX is (even as terrible as OSX26 is) Winblows is worse. OSX feels disconnected, but Winblows feels hostile.

	▲	seniorThrowaway 44 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Ok, I still don't see how that's "hostile to linux" and not just windows being crappy, which it is.
	▲	diacritical an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What setup do you use for seeing image previews (or the images themselves?) on a terminal in Linux?

▲ dtj1123 40 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I think they mean that Office products and the like aren't available on a Linux OS

▲ ray_v 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

At _least_ you're not forced to use Microslop. But that's been a pretty common refrain from a lot of devs - the Macbook is the lesser of two evils.

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godelski an hour ago | parent [-]

I've been given a Winblows machine in the past. My boss thought he was doing me a favor because it was a powerful machine... Sorry... all I need is ssh...

	▲	DANmode 41 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> My boss thought he was doing me a favor because it was a powerful machine From folding@home to mining@work
	▲	encom an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Why not just install Debian (or whatever) on it, instead of suffering Windows?