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Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop

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doctorpangloss ◴[07 Dec 25 00:39 UTC] No.46178123[source]▶
I don’t know. Just run Linux in a VM on macOS. What exactly is Apple not permitting you to do?

Asahi would have 100x more adoption if it was about better virtualization of Linux on macOS. It would be a DIFFERENT product and I guess that’s the point, right?

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mschuster91 ◴[07 Dec 25 00:54 UTC] No.46178220[source]▶
> Just run Linux in a VM on macOS. What exactly is Apple not permitting you to do?

High performance GPU for VMs, for starters. And the amount of crap that even a bare-bones macOS needs to load (and that consequently hog resources like RAM and CPU time) is a goddamn joke.

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1. adalacelove ◴[07 Dec 25 01:05 UTC] No.46178278[source]▶
You cannot uninstall Apple Music. That alone is alienating.
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2. philistine ◴[07 Dec 25 01:28 UTC] No.46178394[source]▶
You cannot uninstall Music.app indeed. There is one toggle that hides all of Apple Music. It completely hides it, to the point that a link online to the service will error out.
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3. RunSet ◴[07 Dec 25 03:59 UTC] No.46179047[source]▶
That setting was removed[0].

[0] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253315335?sortBy=rank

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4. mrpippy ◴[07 Dec 25 04:03 UTC] No.46179059[source]▶
IMO, the benefits of an immutable OS install outweigh being able to uninstall/remove particular apps.
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5. beeflet ◴[07 Dec 25 09:55 UTC] No.46180524[source]▶
do the benefits of a closed-source OS outweigh being able to do whatever you want?
6. adalacelove ◴[08 Dec 25 15:19 UTC] No.46193202[source]▶
Apple makes excellent hardware (laptop, phone, mini...) to the point I'm willing to pay more for it, but I would prefer a lot to customize my SW. And so I avoid their hardware.
7. philistine ◴[08 Dec 25 16:04 UTC] No.46193894{3}[source]▶
I assure you that toggle is still present to remove Apple Music in the latest version of macOS. It's unchecked on my Mac as I type this.