• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Instead of going to Win11, I went Linux on Mac hardware.

    I hating the thought of the day I’d have to “upgrade” to Win11 on my mobile device. Even if I went Linux it would mean there would be a good chunk of commercial applications that simply wouldn’t be compatible and proprietary solutions would be out-of-reach without a mainstream supported commercial OS . It would also mean potentially having to have some kind of Windows for doing certain firmware updates.

    I’m now 1 day in on using a Macbook Air M2 dual booting with Asahi Linux. I still have OSX to fall back to if I run into a proprietary application or solution I need to use or do firmware updates.

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        3 days ago

        Well, boujie BSD, but the important point is that OSX is commercially supported. Meaning commerical companies make and support applications and hardware for it. With desktop Linux its a “best effort” from manufactures at best. If I’m stuck somewhere and absolutely have to use a commercial application/piece of hardware I can feel pretty safe that it will be supported under OSX which is only a reboot away from the primary Linux install I’ll be using full time.