Comment on Asahi Linux on MacBook air questions
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Are you just using it for random web browsing, if you’re looking things up?
If so, and assuming since you want to get rid of macos you aren’t using the apple ecosystem? imo a macbook seems wildly overpriced for what sounds like light, occasional usage? I have been considering a macbook myself, so this isn’t just applehate or anything. It just sounds to me that something significantly cheaper would fit your usecase still?
mortalic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I put a couple use cases above on another comment, but as I’m reading through these another one popped into my head. I have a steamdeck with controllers as my media center, the other day I was playing a game and wanted to look something up on the wiki for it. I got it done on my phone but it was a ton of pinch zoom, search page and it was just tedious. So add that to the use cases.
As for macos, I am not in the apple ecosystem at all, I use a macbook air for my day job and it’s serviceable but I’m just a linux guy really. If I can get KDE on it, then even better. I’ve been using KDE since slackware in the late 90’s.
The macbook air is handy though, when I have to go to the office (occasional) I don’t have to charge it and it’s small enough to carry everywhere.
Being honest here, I actually went down the chromebook route first but then I realized that to get a chromebook that uses a snapdragon cpu, and has a small formfactor, with linux support was actually a difficult combo, and if I did find one, there is a lenvo thinkpad for example, it was like $1000 or so.