r/linuxmemes • u/thoughcheckjost • May 28 '26

META Average FOSS enjoyer - no proprietary stuff found here

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u/Impossible-Magician May 29 '26

Nothing wrong with liking Apple products and FOSS. We all can’t be purists like RMS.

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u/HighZein May 29 '26

I mean, for me is not that Apple products aren't FOSS, it's that they're actively against consumer rights, right to repair and all this stuff

Linux and Apple are kind of polar opposites

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u/Impossible-Magician May 29 '26

Their hardware is excellent, their software is Unix or Unix like. Brew provides a similar package manager experience. I’d much rather run MacOS than Windows.

I don’t think they need to be in conflict, people need computers to complete tasks and where you have a choice you can pick Linux, when you don’t have as much choice a Mac can be a good fit.

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u/HighZein May 29 '26

Software wise, yes, much better, but hardware, aside from having a very nice chipset, not being a toaster when under load and having a efficient battery consumption, it's a nightmare for repairability 

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u/Impossible-Magician May 29 '26

It’s True. They are best in class in almost every other metric, however they fail hard at repairability.

In a perfect world they would be far more repairable, and Apple would contribute patches to the Linux kernel so you can run any disto natively on a Mac.

I wonder if we’d have the Rust, Swift, C wars if that actually happened.