artair

joined 1 year ago
[–] artair@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reasons I use my M1 MacBook Air:

  1. Real estate. Thanks to AirPlay and the Thunderbolt port, I can have three desktops going at once with all my open windows.
  2. Intel binaries still run on it via Rosetta 2.
  3. Control -- I have more access to the OS, the command line, etc.
  4. Virtualization -- Apple Silicon is built on ARM, so I can virtualize any ARM-based Linux distribution using VMware Fusion. (I run Fedora in a VM.)
  5. Input -- despite iPads having the ability to accept keyboard and touchpad input these days, the pointer is still pretty clumsy.

And lots more, but that's a good start for me.

[–] artair@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago

Right client, wrong operating system. It knows I'm using Leomard, but it thinks I'm on iOS. I suspect it doesn't handle architecture detection well on Apple Silicon machines.

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