"After my last blog post I received tons and tons of emails from people mentioning that they switched to X or Y because of Liquid Glass, and much like them, I switched away from the Apple ecosystem thanks to these ongoing issues as well."

Then within 2 sentences: "So this blog post is about my painful journey trying to find a nice piece of hardware that works and feels just as good as Apple's hardware as a web developer."

So yeah I really don't get the motivation

▲

nolist_policy 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A Chromebook gets you the elegant UI, touchpad gestures, slim vertically integrated system architecture and the reliable sleep mode of a MacBook without Liquid Glass.

Plus Chromebooks have the better keyboard layout IMHO.

▲

lukan 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I .. don't get how anyone can consider ChromeOS to have a elegant UI.

I have a chromebook for traveling and light web dev work since years .. and it works, because I rooted it and allmost do not have to use the UI(I need the terminal and chrome dev tools). In general it got better, but is still horrible inefficient and not ergonomic. Or did you mean it looks good? Well, maybe, but for me a elegant UI means it does not get into my workflow and can do quickly what I want. Which .. it nativly cannot.

▲

nolist_policy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As someone using a Chromebook as my daily driver, not getting into my workflow and quickly doing what I want is exactly ChromeOS's UI. Especially virtual desktops combined with the touchpad: Switching between tabs, going forwards and backwards in history, switching virtual desktops and apps is all done with a few gestures.

	▲	lukan 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hm, maybe that part is more polished, but I don't use it. My pain points are very basic stuff, quickly opening a file explorer, finding files, copy paste, navigating folders. It all improved, but still feels awkward and is way slower (takes more clicks/key presses) than in linux or windows.

▲

2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

[deleted]

▲

traderj0e 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Oh I misread the author's complaints about hardware as "software." Ok assuming the author hates liquid glass enough to switch cause of that, and doesn't have the same standard of polish for hardware, at least the post is self-consistent.

I don't believe the claims of Lenovo hardware (esp trackpad) being as good as a MacBook's, but he thinks it is, so up to him. The keyboard layout is annoying cause control-C is both copy and kill.

▲

nolist_policy 2 hours ago | parent [-]

With the default terminal you copy by selecting, like X11, and paste with right-click.

	▲	traderj0e 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So select is select or copy, right click is open menu or paste, both depending on whether or not you're in the terminal. Control-C is also copy or kill, and iirc shift-control-c is nothing or copy. There's a meta key on the keyboard, idk why they can't just do meta-c meta-v everywhere. Same in Ubuntu.

▲

carlosjobim 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So does a MacBook on Sonoma or Monterey.

▲

caycep 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, it’s prob easier to run chromeos in utm on the Mac…