[breytex]

Tried to migrate from Mac to Linux half a year ago (before the 16" with the new keyboard was announced, because I hated the butterfly keyboard).

Tried a bunch of dell and Thinkpad devices. Configured a t480s with ubuntu. First meeting where I had to share my screen and I recognized that Chrome is not able to share a dedicated screen of my three monitor setup. You need a script for that, which creates a "fake" webcam, otherwise its only possible to share the three stitched-together screens.

Those are things, I just expect to work out of the box without a script or pulling two monitor cables everytime I want to screen share something.

Bought the 16" Mac a week later, also not happy with that because thermals are just bad, but its better than having to script simple things. Clients don't expect you to "have to script something real quick" during meetings.

As long as Linux does not cover ALL trivial multi media usecases, I don't see myself making the switch.

[N3cr0ph4g1st]

Same here lol bought a precision with pre installed Ubuntu thinking it would be a smooth switch but nope. So many random scripts for things that should just work it was ridiculous

[fsociety]

I think the thermals on the 16” are the best thermals a MacBook Pro has ever had. Is there a model that had better thermals?

[breytex]

Yes. The macbook 15" 2015 was just running at 55°C with zero fan noise when "just" browsing the web.

The 16" runs at 67°C with 2500rpm when doing the same task. So its neither quite nor cool doing basic tasks. You can turn of turbo boost to get around it, but I was expecting something in the same ballpark in terms of coolness and fan noise for basic tasks without tweaking stuff like this myself.

[enobrev]

Single-Screen sharing (on ubuntu) does work with some apps, but definitely not all. I find that any app that allows sharing of a single application window (google meet and zoom for sure) works fine. Slack wants to share my whole three-screen desktop - which is completely useless.

[breytex]

Google meet / hangouts did not work for me. Zoom did. My client back then did not use zoom, unfortunately.

[breytex]

Also touchpad drivers are all just plain garbage.