This

Gaming laptops usually have atrocious battery life, especially ones with Intel i9s and comparatively weak GPUs. Means they put the whole budget of the laptop into the CPU and nothing else.

Whenever you have applications were implementations are plentiful the only real differentiation you can do without creating a different user experience is the technologies used to develop it. The importance of which in people's perspective is several things, mostly supporting technologies they like and want to see grow and possibly being skilled in the underlying technologies to actually contribute back.

Certain technologies are also just hot garbage, I swear to God if I have to install another electron app for some messaging platform I will shit myself.

You mean Web3? Yeah Web3 is going to do jack shit to solve this, if anything it'll make it worse

Are you using snaps? Snaps are notorious for God awful performance.

They're not difficult by any means.

But they are tedious when compared to other solutions.

Dynamically typed/interpreted language?

Python Yup that checks out.

I've never understood why so many languages insist on a feature that causes such a obtuse and tedious programming experience.

Python is great, until you don't remember a function call, and can't guess using your LSP to tell you. :/

The hatred has nothing to do with the products but the lack of participation in open standards like OpenGL or Vulkan.

Their products are incredibly well made (though I'd fuckin hope so given the pricing) and their software experience (barring the lack of good graphics API support) is quite nice.

Wine is available for Mac, and Apple has started work on their game toolkit which was shown to run cyberpunk (albeit not well)

So yeah, but you're probably better off just dual booting asahi tbh.

Yeah, then we can have marginally more responsive web apps.

Seriously though, web apps are usually just optimized like shit in addition to using chrome.

"The courts hereby decide that Alphabet Inc. will pay a fine of... 1.2 million dollars... Out of the billions of dollars they make every year" :)

edubuntu

An education focused Ubuntu distro, weird. Also getting into Linux because it's free is a great reason to get into Linux, if you get comfortable with it now it can help you in many STEM careers in addition to your own needs and proposes.

Meh, I'll be honest and say that I'm not impressed by chrome in modern day. While I hate Microsoft, edge is a nicer browser to use than chrome, and that's saying something