Hey guys, I have a macbook pro 2019 (intel architecture) that my company gave me for work (I do software development). They allow me to work on linux if I want to, and recent developments at the company have made me more inclined.

I spent a lot of time on Arch Linux on my personal computer a while back, and I love the customizability of the system, the user repo, and the package manager, but I definitely had some issues with stability from time to time.

Essentially I want something customizable, specifically where I have the freedom to mess with things like my window manager and compositor if I want to. I used to use i3 and I don’t know if that’s the move any more with recent developments in wayland.

So to end my meandering:

  1. I’m hoping for some recommendations on distros
  2. Some information about HiDPI displays and utilizing multiple displays with different DPIs
  3. Some recommendations on WMs, especially tiling ones
  • mandos@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 months ago

    You guys both make good points, if I can, I will absolutely argue for the upgrade if I can. I’ve been using the mac with MacOS for a while now, so they’ll probably argue it’s not a necessity since I’m still not really seeing performance issues on it yet, but I may be able to try.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      It may not work at all as they have fairly closed down hardware. Also you may not get firmware updates which is a big security issue.