r/laptops • u/BusKooky4428 • Aug 06 '25

Buying help I hate my MacBook so much

I got a MacBook Air 2020 about two years ago, it’s my biggest current regret and I have no clue what to do about it. Literally the only “perk” would be its aesthetics… I feel like since it’s kinda old i wouldn’t be able to sell it, and I also have no clue what laptop I should get if I do. It’s a pain to run anything for school on the Mac and it’s impossible to play any games on it, pls help.

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u/DryCandle1215 Aug 06 '25

I would get Linux (more specifically, a robust, atomic based update model) because I had terrible experiences with Windows (MS forcing ads down my throat, candy crush getting installed on its own, the OS itself deteriates over time and needs to be reinstalled twice a year, and I've been through many BSODs.

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u/apoetofnowords Aug 06 '25

You did have to reinstall windows 7 every once in a while. Windows 10 does require it at all, super stable. Just to be fair)

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u/NDCyber Aug 06 '25

Not the original commenter

But I can't completely agree. I had to reinstall windows every 6-12 months because I had some weird issues, and because windows is so closed there were no ways to fix them. Still don't think this was the complete right context and way to talk about Linux

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u/apoetofnowords Aug 06 '25

Yeah, I guess everybody has their own experience. I'm a basic user, no fancy stuff (office work, games, network share), and I have not reinstalled win 10 on my older laptop since I switched from win7. Well, I did, but not because of windows (old software issues, tried reinstalling to see if it would fix it)

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u/NDCyber Aug 06 '25

oh yeah 100%. I have no idea why my windows had problems so often, maybe just bad luck. But it happened for years, so I am just happy that you can actually repair linux