"Repair", "consumer choice" etc. Things like these give sleepless nights to the true believers.
After using touchscreens for probably 10 years, I have zero arm fatigue, don't touch your phone or ipad display either. you don't want to smudge those bad boys up. and how do you figure my arm / hands / fingers are blocking my display in any distracting way for the way I am using them?
I love the touchscreens on my iPhone and iPad, in fact the iPad is as useful as it is because I can hold it and use it with touch.
Do you use AutoCAD? Drawing is mostly done with the keyboard, or snapping to existing nodes, which is easy with a mouse.
While I'm thinking about it, how about TurboTax? I've used the MacOS version the last couple of years, but, it is still Intel (hopefully not next year?), and, anyway, TurboTax on Mac always lags compared to Windows. And, the license thing is really annoying now. I'm guessing the Windows licensing interface might not work under Wine. All the same, I wonder if people are able to install and update TurboTax under Linux/Wine?
This does raise a general question. -Every- x86-64 device that I have owned or interacted with** has been hot and noisy. I'm just wondering if any company has moved into the laptop ARM*** arena with, no doubt, Windows ARM, but also, the possibility of running Linux on it? Because, you know, despite Apple's misguided attempt to force subscriptions into everything, Apple Silicon is, well, sweet. Anyway, Linux on an ARM laptop?
You must have bought msi. My dell laptop is quiet and cool at all times when pushed there is a fan but no louder than the Macbook pro from. The same era
LOL. You guessed it for my last PC. But, they've all been that way. Toshiba, Dell, ASUS, MSI. The ASUS was odd. It wasn't actually that loud, but, the fan had a peculiarly annoying noise spectrum. My older MBPs were louder at full blast, but, a somewhat less annoying whoosh. I still like "silent" better.
I've been playing with winboat which uses docker, and it looked promising, I was able to install turbo tax, but its not something that seems to work cleanly. I'm stuck at the initial launch screen.
A problem that I wasted time on was the callout from inside TurboTax to the web-based logon to the TT web site in order to validate the license. Surprisingly, it doesn't always work depending on your security settings /s
I should look at it. Back in the itemized deduction business days, I needed to carry over the return every year. Then 1099-this and 1099-that. In 2026 a fresh start should be much easier.
But, I will be keeping my personal data somewhere besides the proliferating web options. Call it superstitious.
I haven't gotten that far with it, so don't thank me. Just the initial screen, but then it shrinks to the title bar (which is tiny anyways) and that tiny title bar just slides across the screen, inaccessible - so that's what I mean I got it to install but not much further
You're best bet is to use a VM, such as gnome boxes (I'm using this for testing other distros). I don't think docker is the right approach for some apps - I think turbo tax seems to be doing something odd. If I have time and energy, I may look into it, but since it runs on my mac, and we're beyond tax season, its not really something I wanting to look into.
No, Winboat is more like Parallels, it's a Windows VM that can seamlessly grab one app's windows out. Bottles is a wrapper around Wine, but they also have their own version with tweaks (Soda) so you can have apps that won't run with Wine but will with Soda in Bottles.
