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Discussion on: The M1 Mac - Is it worth it for devs?

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Samantha Atkins

No.
I have wasted days trying to get my full stack up and running.
Even standard tools from Jetbrains randomly freeze up.
Parallels is severely broken for keeping a ubuntu desktop running. Ubuntu doesn't even have an ARM desktop ISO so you build you own out on top of ARM server. Mouse randomly stops working in that and audio not at all. And yes I do need real linux VM for some things.
Back on the M1 Mac you need two homebrew stacks one for M1 and one for intel to pick up various linux bits.
M1 hideshow on dock and menu bar stopped working.
M1 has crashed twice in last month
Many things I care about don't run on M1 yet and are pretty pokey on rosetta 2. Many don't work even there correctly.

Wifi is certainly slow. I don't have numbers to prove it but even hard line internet is slower on the M1.

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Alexandru-Dan Pop

Thanks for your input on this Samantha. I also experienced a crash.