I use Windows, Linux (CLI only) & MacOS. My gaming PC & work laptop are both Windows. Most of my work day is spent with an active terminal session to a linux cli somewhere; and any personal work I do is on my M1 Macbook Air.

The latter is by the far the best laptop i've ever used, with its unix underpinnings and homebrew its also got pretty much every linuxy thing I need and apart from gaming (which is apparently getting better all the time) app wise its also got all that I need too.

But then, mostly on that i'm in a web browser or a terminal as well so your mileage may vary.

Hardware wise because i'm not doing any heavy rendering or compiling etc the M1 chip has all the power i've needed in it; and it just sips battery. I don't use it heaps, but charge it maybe every couple of weeks; and it just doesn't really get hot either which is nice as I tend to use it in times where I won't have a desk etc; ie as an actual laptop.

[–] sortofblue@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like that it doesn't get hot; I've got cooling pads for my laptop at the moment and they'll be coming out once the days start getting properly warm.

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

My work laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad, its got 16GB RAM, but idles at over 8GB used just launching the normal apps I use plus all the corporate & security guff that's on it. Eventually it starts swapping like mad and i've kinda just got used to the tiny fan screaming away for half the day.