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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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adalacelove ◴[07 Dec 25 01:05 UTC] No.46178278[source]▶
You cannot uninstall Apple Music. That alone is alienating.
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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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1. 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?