There’s no reason for the average person to ever buy another windows device
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BladeFederation@piefed.social 8 hours agoSure there is, so you can put Linux on it!
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
BladeFederation@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Average people still game. And Linux is improving rapidly. Apple isn’t.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
That doesnt mean the average person can just use Linux, you cant even buy a laptop with Linux from a standard store that people typically look for laptops in (like Amazon or best buy). If you have to convince people to go to a separate website, manually enter their card details, and pay a shipping fee of $116 along with import fees (yes this is a bit more specific to Tuxedo but my point stands). Regardless of which Linux brand you buy it typically takes 3-5 weeks for shipping. Meanwhile across the board the base price of Linux laptops are always higher than Windows devices (some OEMs like Lenovo hide this by giving a $100 discount but when you consider that Linux is generally only an option for custom orders the total cost is still higher than a non custom standard windows laptop).
BladeFederation@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Which is why you buy a Windows machine, then put Linux on it. You said there’s no reason to buy a Windows machine. Even if you abandon Windows forever, there’s still a reason to buy it. There are use cases that Apple silicon is not good for, like gaming. And having competition is good.
Kind of a weird example to say that people won’t online shop too. That’s far more common for all types of people than walking into a store is these days.
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Thanks go the amazing people over at Asahi Linux, you can on macbooks too!
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
On some Mac books. With limitations.
It’s an amazing project, but outsiders might overestimate it’s status if you say it that way.
This one will not even boot in a long time.