hahahaha nice. I hope I don't have to dual boot windows. My laptop is fast enough for VMs
I never went back to windows. I had my stuff in a separate partition so when I went back to Fedora or Arch, I had my stuff there
I don't need to dual boot because the stuff I play just works on proton or is "native" (minecraft)
Honestly, I doubt we'll ever see native linux games be the norm. Windows isn't going away anytime soon, your average joe most likely move to linux, so it's cheaper and just as good for companies to just target proton.
Well, sure, proton is great, but I wish HW support was better more than I like proton.
Your 2 big positives are stuff I agree with wholeheartedly. But I'm still holding out on using flatpak because it feels like an incomplete solution still. There's many things with it I could work around, definitely, but it feels annoying and with NixOS I don't have to worry about those issues because stuff just works for me.
As for FS, I wanted to love it, but doing some stuff with it is annoying. I wish it let you install stuff with dnf to /usr/local (like how it is on bsds or also macs with brew iirc).
Organizing my thoughs: I would love a future where flatpak just works, the sandboxing is nice and all you need is to click "yes" or "no" when an app wants/needs something, where you don't even need to use your distro's package manager (or you can't even use it because the distro is immutable and it updates on its own), but we're not yet there. Installing fonts on FS was a nightmare, and I had to layer stuff like powertop and other stuff I don't remember right now. Also flatpak isn't yet a good solution for development with VScode or similar stuff.
I wish I could love AMD, but after being hit by the drm/amd#1455 bug, I can't ever. I'm quite happy with intel and my battery life is the same as when I used windows, so all is fine.
I care about both design and battery, but I'm willing to compromise on battery because I'll still depend on x86 for games and some other stuff I believe. I like the design of the thinkpads too, black + red is a very kino combo.
I don't plan on running Asahi ever. One of the big reasons I would want a mac is because I wanna try MacOS for myself. Also, I want a thinkpad with an intel meteor lake soc, which will be a radical upgrade. I'm quite hyped
That's not the point, because it's not what the OP asked for
If you're gonna be like that I could also suggest to OP to move to Windows or MacOS 🤷♂️
Xiaomi and Motorola are still out there making new phones that have usbc and use usb2.0 inside them
I mean, sure, it works... But USBC would also just work. They already use it on their laptops (with them being huge proponents of thunderbolt and USBC), and iPads.
google has a dumbass @ the helm
It is a win, but it's more of a Steam Deck win than a plain Linux one.
I don't know. I myself am planning to get a new laptop next year and I'm in a dilemma between an expensive macbook pro or an expensive thinkpad x1 yoga. Similarly priced.
Sort of. On the fediverse I saw that they are mostly just defederated, because the insults and stuff they can hurl far surpasses anything that someone on twitter/facebook/etc can say.
For many it's a radical change in paradigm, and I assume many just want to understand it well
I wish I knew. I learned of it and started playing with it last year, with me using it full time since Feb of 2023, with a couple of hopping and then coming back to NixOS