2mo ago

In 2025 Fedora Silverblue has better plug and play than OSX....

I'm upgrading my builds and I decided to get a new monitor so I splurged on the Samsung G9 49" Curved OLED.

My personal and work ARM MBP's require significant tweaking to get the G9 working with a good DPI and font rendering.

I finally booted up my desktop tonight and it just works. I literally didn't have to touch anything.

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It's not Silverblue specific, it's the Linux Kernel.
- Can verify, use Silverblue and it was plug and play for me back when I first used it around January.
  Updated the kernel to 6.13 around February/March and broke Bluetooth for me. I have no idea how to fix it besides rolling back to a prev update.
- Yeah, he's just here to shill fedora.
  
  Holy shit, red(hat) spy in the base‼️‼️
  
  What? You're acting like Fedora is like Apple or Microsoft lmao
I use Silverblue and MacOS daily, I enjoy the former so much more.
Unfortunately my relatively new Lenovo laptop has a small but also major driver bug that hasn’t been fixed in all the time I’ve had it. Bad to the point I got the Mac to have actual working hardware. But I do not enjoy MacOS in the slightest. At best I can say it harasses you less than Windows and respects the user a degree more than Windows.
- Laptops specifically have been such an Achilles heel for Linux due to driver issues and battery issues. I honestly would just rather stick with OSX and containerize. The thing that might test that is X86 support lapsing at least for some of my MBPs.
- What’s the driver bug? Chances are I can’t help unless it’s one very specific one, but I figured I’d ask.
  
  The touchpad would be very unresponsive for several minutes after waking from sleep. It would still work, but had a crazy latency. Happened in both Windows and Linux.
  I believe I could’ve hacked around it with this command.
macOS and external monitors. Name a worse duo
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