I know you are venting, but seriously, I use macs for macOS. Otherwise I’d be buying much cheaper hardware.
Mac hardware is nice, but it’s not that nice. Except for maybe the trackpad.
Mac hardware is nice, but it’s not that nice. Except for maybe the trackpad.
I bought an M1 max laptop and I’m almost tempted to go back to my Linux machine because of several issues I have with macOS. There are things that are by design like mandatory animation delays for things like switching spaces and going in/out of fullscreen, which are borderline dealbreakers for me given how often I do those things. And there are also things I suspect are either bugs or straight up performance lapses, such as scrolling through text in a terminal at 4k being slow if you have ligatures enabled.
I could go on, but I think it’s a perfectly valid sentiment (regardless of whether or not they were venting) to wish for mac hardware with a Linux OS.
I'd like to use one of those Mac Minis as a homeserver/homelab and macOS is the only thing standing in the way. Similarly, I doubt there is a non Apple laptop that matches the M1 Macbook Air's battery life to performance ratio, specially in that form factor.
I know Asahi linux exists but reverse engineered drivers will never be as effective/performant as official drivers. Porting drivers to Linux won't even be expensive for Apple. They refuse to do it just cause theyre Apple.