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It's pretty. But I recently bought a Lenovo IdeaPad at Costco for less, with 16GB ram and 1TB SDD and am running Linux Mint on it, which I'm getting way more out of than any other Mac I've owned.
Without a doubt the Mac's screen is better than mine. But I feel like, all things considered, what I have can do more (and probably for longer). I'm happy to see something like this come along and take the wind out of Microslop's sails (and sales). At the same time, I feel like one is able to get far more value out of a less-costly machine. If one were going to switch OSes anyway, why not Linux? I guess they're banking on people already owning iPhones and therefore making this a more seamless transition or whatever...
Anyone who knows what Linux actually is, isn't buying these.
Fair
How is Linux support on your idea pad? Does everything work as expected?
Haven't had any real issues. The only thing that is truly bizarre to me is that the monitor will not render the purple color used on Mastodon (it turns it cobalt blue). I knew that the IdeaPad has a not-so-great monitor, but I added Vibrant Linux and managed to make things look pretty good--except for that damn Mastodon logo lol. I've tried numerous things to get it to render correctly (and what makes it even weirder is that I can compare images on the page to another machine and they look the same, it's just the logos and other text that won't go purple... looks like I'm on Bluesky).
But I've had no driver issues or anything like that. Only time I've had anything break was due to my own incompetence in adding scripts to things.
Very nice! It might be hard to test now, but how would the mastodon logo look under Windows?