The thing is, Apple caters to the average user, not too much to specific needs. One example of burst-loads would be compiling code. Also, does watching 4K video lead to thermal throttling these days with hardware accelerated decoding?
Compiling code is not short burst activity. I would say 90% of the time I spend compiling code is 10+ mins of time.
4K video decoding works on dedicated players. But neither Firefox or Chrome have consistent working support for it on Linux.
What does the average user do that requires such a high short burst performance? Besides I'm not so anti bursting if the laptops would still have Oke non-burst performance. But take the laptop I have now. The 9310 XPS 13. Even disabling turbo boost it throttles itself into to the ground to about 1.1 Ghz under load. How is that acceptable? I'm at least happy I was able to mod mine. But it's a total crapshoot when I buy a new laptop. Reviewers don't test it. There is almost no detail available of sustained performance of laptops.
Apple M1 macbook pros from what I can say CAN sustain it's performance indefinitely. Which is why I was very interested.
Good on them. As a researcher it is so disheartening when GPUs get hoovered up by people participating in proof of waste pyramid schemes.
Likewise, if google decides it wants to preserve its service for students and researchers, then I hope that people chewing up resources for malicious/questionable use-cases are booted off.
I've had instability issues with specific GNOME or KDE releases in combination with certain drivers (notably, you guessed it, written by NVIDIA) so at least Ubuntu vs Kubuntu matters. My laptop's touchpad only supports proper gestures with Wayland, which means disabling the NVIDIA drivers (or waiting for the next holy grail of GPU drivers, the current ones aren't the promised holy grail yet on laptops) is required for me to get the touchpad working. Because I value the ability to attach an external screen, I've instead switched back to X11, which means no gestures and therefore only partial touchpad functionality.
I don't know how much the other versions of Ubuntu differ, they all seem relatively minimal in comparison.
While kernel support is the first step, userland applications need to take advantage of the hardware for it to be useful.
e.g desktop envoronments need to care for how it interacts with touchpads, you want your wireless interface to actually be configurable.
You want sane handling of which audio device is the default, and you'd want recognicable names to select them. The list goes on for another mile.
... and suffered by comparison in those aspects, but was infinitely superior in every other way that matters (and there are a lot of other ways that matter).
To be clear, I'm not arguing that Notepad++ or NotepadNext isn't superior to Notepad. I'm simply pointing out that the original Notepad had useful properties that have been lost. I didn't think that would be controversial.
Yes, I understood your point and I agree it's not controversial. (My response was not so much pushback as feeling a need to point out Notepad was something of a wasted opportunity, it had those fundamental advantages but wasted them by being so miserably awful IMHO).
