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ecshafer | on: The Hackintosh Reborn
I wish I could get the mac hardware with linux. MacOS I am not a fan of. But they have the best hardware and the best cpus for laptops bar none.
RunSet | parent | next
More than that, I wish I could get all the apple crap off the drive that is glued into the Macbook.

That is something asahi has vowed to never enable.

https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/security/#apples-unspok...

It might have worked out better if Apple had forbidden Linux on Apple Silicon instead of controlling a pet Linux project.

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Joel_Mckay | root | parent | next
Tying is technically illegal, and allowing other OS to be installed is your only real defense as a business. Some ignore these laws with software, but do so at their own peril.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law

Note, keeping competitors barely operational inside a walled garden is classic Apple policy. No other company has the goodwill inertia to pull off such stunts. =3

29083011397778 | root | parent
> Tying (informally, product tying) is the practice of selling one product or service as a mandatory addition to the purchase of a different product or service

MacOS isn't sold anymore, it's a free download for all supported Macs - meaning Apple is not "selling one product or service as a mandatory addition to the purchase of a different product", regardless of which product you think is being tied to the other (hardware or software).

I can see where you're coming from, but Apple wouldn't necessarily be in trouble due to the wording of the law. Maybe in some countries where the spirit of a law matters more than the specific wording, but we're quoting US legal definitions here, and my mental model of the US legal system has the phrasing mattering more than the intention

Joel_Mckay | root | parent
You may have missed the context of the conversation, and the sales-funnel of the app store installed along with the "OS". =3
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keyle | parent | next
Seeing the amount of trouble I'm having getting my HP omnibook X 14 (Snapdragon / ARM) to run linux with all peripherals; don't hold your breath.

I much prefer ARM over x64 and Linux/BSD over the alternative but it's a wasteland of patches and technical debt out there.

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nerdywordy | parent | next
M1-M3 support: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/11/omarchy-4-5/ And the later models are being actively worked on.
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stasomatic | parent | next
Macs run macOS. That’s how they are sold, that’s the deal, vertical integration and all that. Annoying to get this sentiment brought up over and over. Don’t buy a Mac if you prefer another OS, complain to other hardware vendors to get their stuff together.
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mikepurvis | parent | next
John Gruber in 2006:

> It’s just not true that most Mac users use Macs because the hardware is better designed. They’re Mac users because of the Mac OS. What the original cloning program showed was that many of Apple’s customers were Mac fans, not Apple fans.

https://daringfireball.net/2006/04/asinine_and_or_risky_idea...

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aspectmin | parent | next
Omarchy on Macs (Arch linux) is AMAZING. And the new release (3.5?) supports the Apple Silicon ones.
Grombobulous | parent | next
Not really! The gulf between MacBook hardware and other laptops as well as Apple CPUs and the competitors is narrowing greatly.

Maybe we can say that they’re still the best, but it’s not 2x better like 2020, it’s more like 10-20% better.

For example, Panther Lake beats M5 battery life in real laptops available on the market, GPU performance, and multicore performance.

Just look at Marques Brownlee’s review of the Framework 13 Pro. Or the review of the ThinkPad X9 15p from Just Josh Tech.

I see this mistake all the time where there’s an assumption that MacBooks are still far and away the best without looking at more up-to-date information and evaluating current competition.

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tommy_axle | parent | next
Maybe they offer Intel variants again one day. 2014-2018 Intel Mac Minis work great with Linux.
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teh_infallible | parent | next
I think Omarchy just rolled out support for Apple
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OnlineTux | parent
Forget tech bro's Omarchy crap, go with the original project (Fedora Gnome and KDE spins available): https://asahilinux.org/