I wish them luck, but it seems despite all the data collection they failed to understand who their customers are. Idgaf about their content, I block and remove it where I can. Instead now we have content that will not convince anyone to cancel their Netflix or HBO to move to them and I have a home server that barely runs anymore because the software is so bloated.
I got this on Black Friday many years ago for ~70 and despite the pass I am slowly moving over to Jellyfin. I really don’t see how they came up with this valuation, seems like a last money squeeze before abandoning ship.
You can throw Fedora Asahi on the M1 Mac and it will run Gnome, a browser and most regular apps just fine (e.g. VLC, LibreOffice) but you will run into trouble with Steam and lots of other apps. Might be fine for your usecase and Asahi is easy to install. You also keep a small partition with macOS, just in case.
If you want Apple hardware but full Linux (I get it) you could look for an even older intel based macbook, but beware to not get one with the T2 chip (they put that in from 2017 on or so) because that thing will break your will to exist when it comes to some drivers. Older macs though run most distros really well.
I used to be a heavy macOS user for decades and also love Gnome because they are very similar and tick all the boxes for OS aesthetics
Stop ordering from Amazon
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