I have previously written about this subject, and back then couldn’t reach any conclusion. Battery life is good, but not as good as the 13″‘ battery life was.Īs for the rest of the hardware, the screen is fine, I don’t mind the notch, because I pretty much always use all applications full-screen, because of how bad window management is compared to KWin, even with Rectangle.Īnd I have got a cute cover sticker with Kiki on it!Īuthor Halla Posted on JJCategories books, hardware, krita, krita, planet Krita, Qt and OpenGL - again. The hardware for the rest is fine… The screen is good, I don’t mind the notch since I run pretty much everything full-screen, all the time. The wacom tablet driver needs permissions to use Accessibility - as does, for some reason Dropbox. The window manager is also pretty primitive and needs help from an external utility called Rectangle.Īnd the permissions stuff is crazy. And that means that I just never get any finger memory down: especially since I also use all other operating systems… Navigating around text is also inconsistent between applications. I haven’t figured out what it is in Kate. In Terminal, you switch tabs with Control-Tab, in Firefox with Option-Command-Left/Right, in Qt Creator with Option-Tab. And there’s a lot of inconsistency between applications. I know, that’s par for course with Apple, but when using Krita, a missing Insert key means no easy way to create layers. It’s got function keys again, which is also nice. It hasn’t got a lot of travel, but it’s easy on the nail polish, it feel good - typing text is a lot of fun. As far as keyboards go, the actual keys type fine. Compiled C++ files scrolled by at a clip that I only know from C on other computers.Īctually developing, though, is not such a nice experience. At that point it was clear that this laptop is amazingly fast. So, now I was all set to go and build Krita. I only use the command-line stuff, the IDE I use for working on Krita is Qt Creator. That’s still not sorted.Īs for the development environment, installing XCode took, once again, hours. Dropbox on M1 macOS has a problem: it can no longer install the kernel extension that would automatically download an off-line file, which means… For every file in Dropbox that I want to use, I need to manually make it available off-line. The next day, I could finally setup my development environment, dropbox and other stuff. When that was finally sorted, and I don’t remember how I sorted it in the end, macOS insisted on setting up all kind of stuff I’ll never use, like iCloud. I needed to futz with my Apple ID from another Apple device - and that several times. Only at that point, by now it was early in the evening could I log in. But that worked really well: everything was copied and ready for me. Then I wanted to transfer my user folder from the old macbook to the new one I was warned that that would take five hours. That took hours, even over my really fast glass connection. The out of the box experience was… Trying my patience a lot! First it needed to download and install 6.1 GB of updates before I could even start sending over my user files. I’ve been using it now for a bit, and here are my impressions… The 13″‘ screen was always a bit too small for me and I hated the touch bar with a vengeance. I haven’t noticed other projects making use of it, though, and it’s a bit unstable.Īnd then, since I still could get a good trade-in value, I decided to swap the 13″ M1 for a 14″. And after that an M1 mac mini for KDE’s binary factory. In 2020 I first got an M1 MacBook pro, to look into making Krita ready for the M1 cpu. That one was horribly slow, so then in 1015 I got a 15″ macbook pro. It started with a Powerbook Pismo which I got secondhand to investigate some problems Krita had with big-endianness (it had a powerpc cpu and ran Debian), during the first Krita kickstarter I got KO GmbH to buy a mac mini so I could work on porting Krita to macOS. For someone who really doesn’t like the company or the platform, I’ve had curiously many macs.
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