Gave another shot at Linux on a Framework laptop.
Man, it's still so bad for non-dev activities.
Macs are still king of productivity.
Discussion
Curious what distro and DE you tried? What do you mean by bad for non-dev activities?
What do you do on a computer that’s non dev?
What activities and what's bad about it?
This isn't a leading question from a linux jihadist - I was given a "work Mac", but all my other personal machines are various linux distros on various hardware; I see where the Mac shines and where I want to throw it out a window.
Have you tried gnome desktop? Its pretty good out of the box.
Are you holding it right? Standard Ubuntu on a framework is a daily driver for my grandmother
its good for grandmas who read the news and watch youtube.
its not good for photo/video editors, gamers, those who use specialised software etc
Good. Guess the post is a bit clickbait. Productivity has a thousand facets.
If you can't run your software on Linux, well yes Linux is not for you.
If it's about tasks like writing, calendar, making video calls, email and handle your excel sheets. You will get your stuff done.
Games are not for productivity btw
Its been a LONG time since I've used a Mac so I have no point of comparison. I do use both windows and Linux (ubuntu mostly) on a regular basis and in general my experience has been that windows is quicker out of the gate (easier to get programs running, services connected, etc. ) but linux has offered far more options and adaptability over the long term.
just run ubuntu or popos on a thinkpad. I use this as my non-dev machine.
what do you need besides a browser? worst case run a sandboxed windows vm on linux.
you are wrong
What "productivity" activities are there that are "non-dev"?
Anything that a normie (non-dev) would ever want to do, I'm quite sure Linux can do it just as well as a MacBook, no?
Except gaming, of course, but that sucks on a Mac as well.
Would never ever use an #Apple product and the last version of that #Microsoft OS that I had on a computer was #WinXP. Not looking back at all!
100% I’ve come to the same conclusion after 30+ years working with Macs.
