Can’t actually buy MacOS, you have to buy their hardware. For the time being connecting with an Apple Account is still fully optional.
I see four Linux logos and one of them looks suspiciously out of place
Lol, $100 would be a deal now. It’s $140-200 for Windows 11 depending on if you get Home or Pro.
I looked up how much it would cost to get a Windows Server license to run in a VM on my linux server, and that’s a minimum of $500 (but possibly more depending on factors that are irrelevant as an individual). I decided I’d run unactivated Win10Home instead with some registry hacks to make things auto-start the way I want. If that stops work, I guess I’ll just stop doing automated Windows CI.
I love Arch, but it’s disingenuous to say that the install process is as easy as Install? Done.
Idk archinstall is pretty straightforward if you choose a DE. No harder than installing windows if you haven’t done either before.
Help documentation and available of “support” (friendly nerds) to chat to is better than windows too.
I think that would be a fair argument if the meme was claiming it was low/zero effort, but it’s just about freedom so it flies
Yes installing Arch is as easy as counting to 10
@yogthos With Apple you’ll probably have to buy a whole new computer from them
Windows does this too where they just stop supporting older hardware. I find the worst part is that new versions of Windows/MacOS are largely just random bloat that nobody asked for.
@yogthos It’s honestly reprehensible.
indeed
Apple is actually pretty nice with how MacOS gets installed. Macs themselves have a recovery thing if you want to reinstall. If I remember correctly it is hardcoded with a version that came out before the device was released, but can automatically detect and verify a newer installed version.
They get ya by tracking every last program you open, being hostile towards user choice, and charging you hundreds of dollars for $50 of storage.
Pop os implement rexocery partition too which u can use to reinstall all os
This is slightly different but that’s only because Apple has the monopolistic advantage of they made the device.
That’s correct. Apple has near the same setting but it doesn’t belong into this meme, which is more like m$ vs. Linux
The prompts to upgrade Office 365 every time my gaming PC updates really hurts after using a Linux machine all day
After you get decently experienced with Linux, you’re tempted to move to a “difficult-to-setup” distro for fun and more flexibility. Nothing wrong with normie distros, but these advanced distros are really good - you can strip down “bloat”, pick your own init system, your own login daemon as well as your own job scheduler.
