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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linux Workstations (Patreon)

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2023-12-15 13:49:43
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Hi folks, a video I hinted at in my Plain Text video after saying, "But even if you're storing large files, storage is cheap if you're smart."

And here that video is, the problem is laptops, and the biggest culprit is Apple.

I'd love to know what you think, and thank you so much for your support :-)

Tris <3

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Anonymous

Loving your videos so far - I'm four chapters into TheBook, inspired by your enthusiasm, with no real reason to learn Rust other than that you made it sound interesting - but I didn't enjoy this one. Happy you have you extoll the virtues of Linux but not by bashing the competition. Any IT pro with plenty of experience will tell you there's only one answer to the question "Which is the best OS?" and it's always "It depends on the context".

noboilerplate
>>125504095

Thank you so much for you kind words, and support! I'm glad you're getting into rust because of my videos, it's a fantastic language right!? I swear I tried to write a more even-handed video! XD But when I started to get the real numbers I could not in good conscience recommend such poor options to my viewers. (all my references are in my source code, and for prices, I checked myself in the week before I published) 10x more expensive for ram than desktop is horrifying, no matter how you cut it! My audience are developers and power users. They should all be running 128GB of ram, and they're not because of the issues in the video. It's holding us back, and I'm kinda mad about that.

Anonymous

Todays laptop designs are really annoying also for me. I got a fancy "Engineering Laptop" which is really thin from the company I am working for. I am not even doing anything "heavy" on it. Just using Miro Board and MS Teams and it heats up soooo much that it lags extremely. What do I have to do? -> lift the laptop by laying something under it so the heat is not trapped directly under the laptop. I think the direction of design "futuristic thin laptops" is definetly the wrong way to go. I would rather have it a little bit heavier and bigger than struggeling with a piece of HW which slows down when I open MS teams....just sad.

noboilerplate
>>126292047

Sadly, as I joked about in the video, there's only so many kilos of copper the average consumer is prepared to lug around! :-D I think a thin light laptop coupled with an eGPU could be a great compromise for many people, as the gpu heat is external to the laptop, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP_8TzDGGVU

Anonymous

I really appreciate this video; I’ve watched it 5 times now and I think I’ve finally distilled down for myself the parts that are truth for me. I completely agree that Linux on any machine vs MacOS or Windows will always be the correct call for me, however; I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why watching this filled with anxiety just thinking about using a desktop for work. It finally hit me today; as someone who is Autistic and Severely ADHD I currently use the form factor of my computers as a little hack for my brain. The Desktop is for “Fun” (gaming, movies, shows, my children finding/making pictures to print and colour, etc. etc. etc.), where as the laptop is for “Work” - this physical difference between the two allowed me to create within my brain this separation that I accept and it keeps my intention in line with my actions when using each computer. This isn’t a “correct” approach by any means but it works really well me. Like literally better than a lot of other things I’ve done to increase my focus. So for me the laptop will probably stay - also the convenience for me of being able to move around as much as I like to without needing to maintain network connectivity will always feel good. I also feel like switching from my M2 MacBook Air to the AMD FrameWork 13 is the best thing to happen for me personally and it also feels like a “good-enough” solution for me that fits close enough to argument made here that I can live with being a little more on the fence at this time. With the FrameWork I got to bring my own RAM and Harddrive allowing me to kit it out with 64gb RAM and a 4tb m.2 drive for ~$500 less than my MacBook cost not to mention the ‘peace of mind’ that I can easily replace any part of this laptop as it needs repair/updated parts.

noboilerplate
>>127415005

extremely valid! I have LITERALLY begun doing this separation this week - I have a low-powered machine for writing, and a high powered machine for editing (and gaming, now that I'm trying to reclaim my evenings) You're not the only one to say good things about the Framework - I'll be very interested to try one out when my thinkpad needs replacing in a few years.