• jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 days ago

    Now I want a Touch Bar MacBook! It would be so fun to customize the touch bar to my exact needs! Possibly even play doom on it!

  • egrets@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Very nice that it’s being supported, but I think the general consensus among MacBook owners was that it was mainly a sales gimmick and not actually that useful? With opinion divided, of course. I can imagine it would be handy for specific apps.

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      9 days ago

      it was great if you really leant into it and installed custom stuff like better touch bar… but apple never really did a lot with it: it could have been really cool, but it never got the attention it needed

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      9 days ago

      I have a couple touch bar macs, and the touch bar is fine.

      However, I installed Ubuntu on one of my touch bar macs. The keyboard has no physical escape key; that would be on the touch bar. So, my Ubuntu touch bar Mac now has no escape key, which is a bit problematic, so having a fix for that would be cool.

      It is not a big deal for me, since I’m just using it as a server, but it could be a deal breaker for using a touch bar Mac with Linux as a PC.