Unpopular personal opinion in 3... 2... 1

The new macbook pro keyboard is my favourite keyboard I've used and any lenovo style keyboard feels like typing on a wet sponge...

Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to crawl back into my hole...

do you like your new mbp? i’m thinking about buying one

@ThatSoftwareGuy I love mine but personally, unless you NEED macOS, don't get one

@lxmcf like i don’t NEED macOS, i’ve got a desktop with win 10 (pls don’t kill me) that i don’t use. but like i have an iphone xs max and the new ipad pro. so i thought it would be nice as like something if i needed an actual computer on the go

@ThatSoftwareGuy in that case get the 2018 air with apple care just to be safe or get a pre-owned 2018 MBP or 2015 model, wouldn't recommend buying a brand new MBP.

Spent $2700 just to get the base 2018 touch bar model (need those USB ports) and personally think $2000 would be more on the mark

@lxmcf Interesting, i’ll look into it. thanks man!

@ThatSoftwareGuy no worries!

Is macOS still a bitch when it comes to show hidden files/folders?

@hell YES! YES YES YES AND YES!

it really fucking annoys me, J just use the terminal to find hidden stuff

@lxmcf huaeuhaheuha 8 years already since I first came in contact with this bizarre bullshit and it haven't changed

Is there a linux distro(preferably ubuntu based) that can run without issues in a mac book? I would love to buy one, just for the metal body, and nothing else. Dont want to use osx

@JhonDoe elementary os and arch run pretty well

@lxmcf if you need osx for dev, then you get a virtual machine setup, there's no reason you'd need a mac book for tbh.

@JoshBent I say it more because physical hardware > virtual hardware but it comes to preference really...

I prefer building on physical hardware but for 99% of the other Dev community, a VM will be fine

@lxmcf you can have also much beefier specs for your VM or even hackintosh :P

https://m.youtube.com/watch/...

@hell @lxmcf just press command shift period to show hidden folders in Finder.

By the way: this is not an unpopular opinion. It's just that people with this opinion don't tend to speak up about it. I think that this keyboard is a very good job given the very, very limited space and large number of features the hardware has. 👍🏼

But I still like my full size mechanical keyboard better 😉

@JoshBent Currently I have a MacBook pro from 2012 with HDD and while it runs slow as hell, I recently created a macOS VM with VMWare and this is not really faster (running on a dedicated SSD tho, does not even need to share SSD resources with host OS)

Are these still breaking when dust gets under the keys?

@hell @lxmcf there's actually a terminal command which sets the default to not hidden (its even called setdefaults something) and stays like this through reboot. You can still distinguish them by opacity... I set it like that and left it since.

@beegC0de so far havnt seen it on the 2018 MBP's so I would say no at the moment

@Sully Personally think the touch bar is a stroke of genius (But needed the haptic feedback without having to install a third party app) but most devs seem to put in minimal work for it to be useful...

Chrome is shocking with it, the functionality introduced for the touch bar in chrome is laughable

@Sully Escape key should be physical 110%

@Sully and that's the better choice for sure, MBP is kind of a niche thing now

@StopMotionCuber depends entirely on your specs, it is of course going to run bad on an eeepc for example, runs just fine on an i5 4460 with 24GB ram.

@Sully the best of the best! https://youtu.be/4QDsqWkUvXQ

@JoshBent I dedicated 2 cores and 8GB RAM to it on a i5 6500.

Maybe I need to mention that my host is Windows though