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I'd love to be able to ditch the gui entirely, I've found working from a TTY really helps me focus on the actual work I'm supposed to be doing

Unfortunately the one impossible hurdle is the web browser. Have kinda got around the need for it mostly with an llm cli for basic questions but will always find myself needing to fire up a window manager just to get a browser eventually

Starting Firefox takes 5 seconds? I start thinking I need to optimise if it takes more than 2

Ah that is irritating, I tend to have my ThinkPad on my lap every now and again and it's usually because it's in a public place without a desk. Would be pretty annoying for the fan to suddenly go crazy in public

Fair enough. Got a colleague who sudo nanos everything then wonders why he keeps getting permission denied errors later lol

Doesn't work, I've already spent ages trying to get this to work properly and have basically just given up at this point.

I don't mind waiting for it to recover from hibernation, I only hibernate it once or twice a day anyway

No issues with battery life or fan noise? That's what I'm hearing from others

Ah interesting, I was considering not bothering with the GPU as I only plan to use the thing for work anyway

What's the battery life like without, I heard from someone else 3 or 4 hours of normal usage but unsure if that's with or without

Entirely fair I am a nerd

My experience of Linux has been that it needs a certain amount of tinkering to function properly and my experience of people who make statements about supported configurations is that they are not willing to put up with that

Agree with that windows is a horrible user experience by comparison but it's the most likely to just work and be supportable

I meant the framework, but fair enough

Supposedly the newer macs were quite good at heat dissipation, was that iBullshit?

What exactly is a CMOS battery?

Have you tried it much without the GPU? I imagine that would cut down battery usage by a lot right?

Camera mic and speakers are not a deal-breaker especially as they're upgradable from what I understand

How long would you say a charge normally lasts, apologies for the profiling but I'm assuming you tend to work at a terminal more if on arch rather than loads of heavy electron apps?