Exit their walled gardens and force them back to a hardware only focused company. Since their domination and lock in with the App Store theyβve become a platform silo funnel: they build great hardware to trap users in their ecosystem.
But that doesnβt discount the value of the hardware, we just need to work around the walls they put up. Itβs at least easier in the smartphone market, but the laptop market literally has almost universally shit options outside of Apple, imo.
Mind you, Iβm not saying that it wouldnβt be good to exit apple device dependency and that this isnβt the goal, Iβm just saying is by far the least practical and considering it the first and only step is to kinda just dismiss the problem. There are billions of apple devices, the question is how do we make freedom accessible to them even when Apple wants to insert themselves as a middle man and take 30% of everything they do?
Figure out how to drop a non-proprietary OS on an Apple device and I'll use it. I'd have zero issue running apple hardware running my choice of Linux if I was paying obscene amounts to bankroll a company I don't want to support.
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God that would be the dream. Linux on the M2 π
The chips are the barrierβ¦
I've always valued software freedom over hardware, and I don't really feal limited at all. But then again, I'm not editing 4D movies or doing quantum computing, or whatever MacBook people are supposedly doing on their laptops I guess π
The M1 Max has been a huge benefit to what I do. Battery power is night and day. But I am actually editing 4D movies, recording high quality audio, creating a few dozen gigs of media every day or two, running numerous Ai tools that hog TF out of resources, have a few terminal processes that stay active, and I have 2 different browsers open with 100 tabs in each at basically all times π€£π€£
With this thing literally maxed out for the MacBook I could get, I literally crashed it the other day because the combination of Davinci Studio using a bunch of 4K footage in an elaborate Fusion rendering and then transcribing one of my podcast episodes while talking to GPT4all just ate every ounce of RAM I had. I was literally writing to the drives to move the mouse around on the screen. I tried so hard to quit processes before it completely shit the bed but keyboard strokes werenβt even registering for like 10 seconds π
I've got an M2 air... One can only dream ... But some of these dreams have a way of becoming reality.
Good to know it's possible! If I'm ever gifted a MacOS device that will be the first thing I do to it.
Iβve only partitioned an old laptop. It would be interesting to know if it would be possible on iPad or iPhone. π€·πΌββοΈ
I've been hearing folks talking about jailbreak ING iphones, but it's this hushed mythical thing they don't want to say too loud, and it's unconfirmed if anybody actually has π
It doesnβt make full use of the Apple silicon yet though does it? That was a big reason I hadnβt done another dual boot yet.
Those guides only work on Intel Macs. If you want to use Linux on a Mac your only option right now is Asahi Linux which Iβve heard is stupidly fast but also extremely beta. Theyβve recently implemented the sleep state that Macs are famous for.
*if you want to use Linux on an Apple Silicon Mac.
