And do what? I’ve used Linux as my sole OS for a couple of years and it was a terrible user experience where I spent way too much of my time trying to get things to work. This was before I bought a 4K monitor, so it wasn’t even as intolerable as it would be today.
I actually want to like Linux by the way. The philosophy and the fact that you can use it on environmentally sound (and repairable) hardware is exactly what I want. Unfortunately ease of use is more important to me than that. Apple has that. Everything works out of the box, from the shared Callander, notes and reading iMessages across devices to plugging into a 4K monitor and having things just work.
I mean, even if you don’t care about the repairable hardware, the surface book is frankly a cooler piece of hardware than a MBP. Sure it’s more expensive and has no thunderbolt port, but it’s really damn sexy. Unfortunately it runs windows and that’s an even worse user experience than Linux.
So I buy Apple products, not because I really want to, but because they are the lesser evil when you want unix that just works.
Apple products are easier to use until it is not. How can they not fix the keyboard for 3 years now? Linux actually also just works, it's just adviceable to do very short research before you buy hardware for it.
> Unfortunately ease of use is more important to me than that.
Why even mention "environmentally sound" hardware if the only thing you care about is convenience? When it comes time to ask yourself why you didn't do the right thing you already have your excuse: it was just so convenient. No shit.
I’d like to say you had a fair point, but what is the “right” option? There is a reason I outlined environmental and repairability as two separate things because unfortunately there isn’t always a correlation between the two.
It’s sad but sometimes the non-repairable options are actually better for the environment, even if you have to replace them[0].
And this is assuming the repairable option will even last longer, which isn’t always the case. It’s anecdotal but when I bought my 2018 MacBook Pro last October it was to replace my old 2011 MacBook Pro. The old one still works by the way. In a shorter period of just five years I’ve gone through three dells at work. Despite the dells living mainly in docking stations and being repairable two of them are dead.
To me it’s a priority list, and you are certainly free to disagree with how I prioritise, but my point was that Apple fits my list better than the other options.
