Re: Remember when setting up a Windows PC didn’

On 1/13/26 06:28, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

-hh wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:
 

<snip>
>
Because my basic question is: what is stopping the FOSS developers from
also writing a Linux flavor for Apple silicon?
>
I know of the Asahi Linux project, who's reportedly already doing this.

 Here's one:
      <https://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/m1-debian/>
 Apparently some hardware still doesn't work.

That could be a fair point .. if all flavors of Linux had successfully been 100% on all of its hardware variants.

As such, how is there any valid differentiation to be claimed between
x86 based systems -vs- Apple M based systems?

 You're comparing apples and oranges :-D
 Shouldn't you be comparing Mx and ARM?

That could be brought into comparison too, but since the primary complaint being alleged here is that Apple is so locked down that there are not 3rd party OS variants, considering only the Apple M cuts to the chase.
Meantime, I'm running Win11 on an M1, so I see the bitching here as mostly hypocritical because it is simply trying to use 3rd party OSs as a goalpost move from what's probably their actual complaint, which is that they find Apple hardware too expensive for their personal budget.
-hh