If you you can single command in Linux, what prevented you to do the same on Macos? brew install <the_commandline_tool> and you should have been able to run the command in macos too.

That's a weird assumption. I am not talking about cd and grep I am talking about one of the thousands of tools available in any Linux repo.

It's more likely to get it run on WSL than assuming it would just work on a Mac.

But could provide one of the thousand that you are having trouble running on MacOS? Genuinely curious despite my comment sounding like I am trying to defend MacOS.

I was using Ubuntu shortly, certainly a great experience contrary to the hate I see for it in some Linux communities. I do not like snap(probably gotten better in the last 6 months since I used Ubuntu).

Haha sadly I am a all in or nothing kind of a person. I have a Thinkpad X1E and Macbook pro m2. If I decide Linux then I will go complete anti-Apple denounce my Apple devices and same for if I chose for Apple :P. Maybe that is where I am having trouble :P

Macbook Air is 999$ 16G RAM and 256Gb. I think if you look at the competition you would be right about the same territory but with better battery, perf of M silicon chip. For that price I think it is really hard to beat Apple. But once you go on the upgrade from base config that is when it begins to stop making sense and look elsewhere.

I mean... 256Gb storage in 2025 sounds like a joke. I hate that they can get away with that

Yes I am with you on that one. Not supporting Apple by any means here but if your workflow is cloud based you could get away with 256. As a software dev. my work laptop sadly or surprisingly is 256 and I haven't hit the storage limit on it. No running any code locally everything is on a sandboxed dev. machine.

But the sad thing is most manufactures are following apple and soldering the components so repair ability is questionable whichever way we look.

I think the laptop lid atleast for me hasnt been an issue lately on my thinkpad.

One thing I think macos is better is connecting to high resolution monitors without issues. My attempts to connect my thinkpad x1e to 5k (could be the dreaded nvidia which is causing this) causes so much headache.

Sorry i should have made it clearer in my post, I have been using archlinux and xmonad for more than 10 years but i do reevaluate the choices i make/made. While the power settings has gotten a lot better over the course i was wondering if there is any laptop+os that gives close to macbook battery life.

The issue in most cases is that hardware that also runs windows will only support S5 Sleep so that Windows 11 can download fresh advertisements while your laptop is “sleeping”. In some cases, you can patch the DSDT tables in the firmware to reenable S3. But also many recent laptops will just not fully support deep sleep. And that means the MacBooks are superior on the hardware level and there isn’t really anything that Windows or Linux can do.

>The issue in most cases is that hardware that also runs windows will only support S5 Sleep so that Windows 11 can download fresh advertisements while your laptop is “sleeping”.

That explains some things. When I got my new laptop I played with Windows for awhile before installing linux, was surprised by how much the battery drained when unplugged and supposedly asleep. Was also surprised by how poor battery life in general was with Windows. Linux solved both issues, guess I got a laptop which properly supports deep sleep?

After six years I am back to qwerty as well. https://maudlinruminations.com/posts/colemak_6years.html Those who don't want to increase my page hits

high level TL;DR: I chose convenience of qwerty being there everywhere and realizing that qwerty isn't really that bad.

I am now going to try KWM on my work macos