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I hate Apple with passion, but my GF has a 2013 Macbook, that is still getting security updates and is totally usable.
I replaced the spinning hard drive a while ago with a fast SSD, while using Clonezilla to copy the content and partitions of the drive.
And you know what? It started like a rocket. It has an Intel CPU, but I don’t think installing Linux would have made it much better, especially UX wise.
MacOS is more than half the reason most people buy a Mac and not a cheap laptop.
Still nice meme tho. It’s way more relatable than I want to admit it.
NGL I bought a new MacBook (m1) as that arm processor is just killer. Still mis Linux on that machine though.
(I know about Asahi, but I haven’t heard about it’s current state in the last few years since it’s initial debut)
Not to get all Apple-apologia, but my wife’s old Macbook is still going strong for casual use (email, video streaming, web browsing) after nearly a decade.
Not really a badge of honor or anything, just that it takes a lot to bog down even substandard out of date hardware to a noticable degree if you don’t do a ton on it in the first place.
I’ve got a top-of-the-line 2015 Macbook Pro that works well today. I also don’t understand why Macbooks are held as mutually exclusive to Linux. They’re just a computer, plug in your bootable Linux USB and install it. I’ve got Linux on mine and it works decently.
I personally like the aluminum case. It keeps them alive longer than plastic laptops.
On the inside its just like any other laptop except more solder points between the components (I used to do repair work on them). And they can sell more used since everyone wants to pay the apple tax.
Btw might be a good idea to clean its fans and air vents, especially if it gets hot and/or slow fast
I have a MacBook Pro Mid-2011 still going. But it does not get any updates since years(even security ones).
I have one similar to that 😃 I have set up a dual boot with EndeavourOS to get security updates there
(Prepare partition in macOS by shrinking main and make a second FAT. You’ll change the file system to the correct one during installation of Linux. At reboot hold alt/option to choose which OS/USB-Stick to boot)
With the macOS, I want to try legacy patcher, but would have to kill my Linux in the process, so I did not try it yet…
my wife’s old Macbook is still going strong for casual use
As is the 500 dollar Acer laptop I bought in 2016 lol But yeah, my wife had wanted a MacBook Pro for a very long time. We finally had the money for it in 2019 so we got that laptop for her. In order to play games on it, I had to give her one of my Windows keys and learn how to set up Boot Camp. It’s actually a perfectly serviceable gaming laptop.
She loves it. It’s still holding up very well. But was it worth $2,700? Not to me. But then again, my '97 Honda probably isn’t worth the $2,700 I paid for it to her, either. I don’t understand why she wants overly expensive computers. She doesn’t understand why I want overly crappy cars. But we did say for better or worse so here we are lol
The person reading this is cute
No U!
How dare u
No
Yuh uh!
They don’t think it be like that, but it do.
I can do indie grade game development on an M1 MacBook air. It’s wild how tech has progressed.
But I do my day job work on a Linux mint laptop and have a windows gaming pc until such time as I can fuck that useless piece of shit software into the fucking ether where it belongs.
What game keeps you on windows?
Right now none specifically, but I haven’t really done an audit. I understand it’s pretty good nowadays with proton.
What I don’t want is to accidentally play an unsupported game and get vac banned or something.
If stellaris, total war and a handful of others worked I could probably convince myself to look into dual booting to try it out. I imagine OBS is fine. Streamdeck works on Mac so might be ok.
Can confirm at least Stellaris works
Maybe they want an Apple laptop because they want something that’s nice, runs major software, and doesn’t force the user to spend half their life in the command line.
People like this remind me of jerks driving around in lifted trucks and cars with loud exhausts calling everyone else a “pussy”. There’s nothing but insecurity that drives attitudes like this.
tbh this comment just goes to show that your knowledge of GNU/Linux is very outdated
There’s also a branding problem IF you want “normie” widespread adoption.
If the go to image of a Linux user is the fedora m’lady guy saying “so that’s you’re distro,huh”
Or the furry tallsocks wall of text customize to the n-th degree person,
The normie will never align.
You might like that, from a social perspective, but even saying “your knowledge is outdated” is funny because most folks have little to no knowledge of their Mac either, they just know it “just works” for their mainline usage.
Of course it doesn’t. But if it makes you feel better to make things up about someone you disagree with, I can’t stop you.
Can we not just have fun and talk shit about something? It’s not that serious. I own a Mac even (it was inherited though).
runs major software
You’d probably want to go for Windows in that case? There’s plenty of software that doesn’t have a MacOS version.
Windows doesn’t run Xcode. macOS does run Office.
How many people choose Xcode over other IDEs though? Or are there some things that you can only do in Xcode?
At this point, with proton/wine more major software works on Linux than Mac OS.
Lol, advocating windows. I guess it could get worse than the OP’s post.
I was just comparing it to MacOS, and using it as a reply to the comment that MacOS “runs major software and doesn’t force the user to spend half their life in the command line”, which I interpreted to mean an OS that a mainstream user would be comfortable with. Windows fits that description better than MacOS does. I’m not advocating for using Windows instead of Linux or anything like that.
People who buy Macs are typically not buying it because they’re gamers.
Xenia should have been our official mascot. C’mon, Linus, make it happen. The penguin is boring.
Sex sells, Linus.
It’s not even that. The character is a transgender furry. It pretty much represents what Linux is. You have the freedom to modify it and customize it to make it whatever you want it to be and make it yours.
