Hey buddy. I got one yesterday. Such an adventure. Coming from the MacBook experience, I will say it's glitchy AF. But I still haven't linuxed it. Doubt that will help.
I will say it's fast.
My complaint is the Thunderbolt 3. It is a lie. First you need an adapter because of course you do and the only one at the store is Apple's. I have a bunch of Macs and displays and peripherals and zero success talking to any of them.
I don't know if I'll even complain. I have an Intel desktop mobo that after several years learned to drive a display over Thunderbolt iff it's connected on boot and that's all. So I'm not expecting much.
Yeah, this laptop was supposed to replace my old MacBook Air. I had that thing for five years, and not once had a problem with it, even after dropping it and damaging the shell. I wanted to get a linux-compatible laptop and switch to it full time, but I'm having serious second thoughts. The build quality of Macs is top-notch, and to use the old cliche, it "just works". Honestly. They're ridiculously expensive, but hey, you get what you pay for.
I agree. The Precision 5510 I have at work (basically an XPS 15) is definitely not a MacBook Pro. I adore how you can still upgrade the ram, replace the hard drive, and use standard m.2 SSDs, but the chassis is not that rigid, and the screen might be better on paper, but I find it very annoying to use.
The trackpad is terrible!! You can't click it if you're holding the laptop because the chassis flexes too much!
The keyboard is fantastic though! It's just like my MacBook Air's keyboard! Just the right amount of travel and give. I'll give them props for that.
Doubt they'd prefer any of those. None of those are open source, every single one is a GUI app (which has a history of limiting access to the plumbing that can be provided), and some of those don't even run on Linux.
Oh that gives me an idea. Let's make it so the blob can be decrypted 2 ways. One shows your tax receipts and spec indie-horror script, the other is your real shit.
Plausible deniability by allowing you to decrypt with one of two different passwords. One gives you access to the volume with your data, the other opens a shadow volume that contains random non-senstive data.
This is the only one of the bunch that I've been able to install some packages on RHEL5 and RHEL3 that I'm stuck with. (And even then, only with too much effort bootstrapping.)
I will say it's fast.
My complaint is the Thunderbolt 3. It is a lie. First you need an adapter because of course you do and the only one at the store is Apple's. I have a bunch of Macs and displays and peripherals and zero success talking to any of them.
I don't know if I'll even complain. I have an Intel desktop mobo that after several years learned to drive a display over Thunderbolt iff it's connected on boot and that's all. So I'm not expecting much.