• fxdave@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Don’t buy a Mac. That’s more limiting than a Windows. But yeah install linux.

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      4 months ago

      More limited, but also less enshittified than Windows.

      If you want a good, well-polished experience for certain creative workloads, or even programming, MacOS is great and their Apple Silicon CPUs are excellent.

      If you want to do ANY gaming besides WoW (which surprisingly enough has always had great MacOS support) or you can’t stand the lack of configurability, Linux is immediately the superior choice by far.

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        4 months ago

        The whole business model of Apple is to force a hardware upgrade cycle on you and force all your devices to be in that same ecosystem.

        I mean, I can see the advantages of it on the short term, but on the longer term having stuff that keeps on working even as always even in older hardware (or you just install new hardware under it and it just recognizes it and keeps on working) is a massive benefit versus a $1500+ bill every two five years and having to migrate your stuff.

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          It’s more like 6-7 years and the migration tool basically clones your drive in 15 minutes

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        4 months ago

        Even though I do hate Apple as a company, they do make great products, they just charge out the ass for them

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          3 months ago

          Nah, even their hardware consists out of laptops with screen protection falling off, phones bending themselves into breakage and cables with the sensitive connectors on the outside so they’ll break often.
          Their OS is surprisingly buggy, too.

          They’re actually just shit all around, in my experience.