It's certainly on my list alongside Debian. It's a shame, since my distro of choice is Fedora but I'll switch next time I need to re-install my OS. If they throw opt-out telemetry into the mix I'm dipping immediately. Sure, I could opt out, but I don't want to fuck it up.
Strangely enough, because I'm finding it to be more stable than Windows.
My work laptop has the Bluetooth or Internet service just cut out without any explanation. The first reboot doesn't fix it, but for some reason the second does 🤷♀️
Who do we call the enemy?
My children, my children
Who do we call the enemy?
Who do we call the enemy?
The enemy is poverty
And the wall keeps out the enemy
And we build the wall to keep us free
That's why we build the wall
We build the wall to keep us free
To be honest, if the M1 could play more games without a ton of translation going on I'd be using it right now. The computer was truly nuts. Linux has been perfect tho.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Linux has fine ARM support. IIRC, the issue was reverse engineering the drivers for the hardware included in the M-series Macs?
Deal breaker, not at all. Though, back when I had an iPhone I knew immediately I'd have to have another "Which of the five messaging apps will I need to preen through" conversations, since iPhone users in the US fall back on iMessage mostly.
Now, on the flip-side, what was extremely annoying about using the fruit device was assumptions others made about me in techie circles. Some of which appeared within these responses. That I was tech illiterate, vain, or a fan-boy of some sort. It simply did what I needed while carrying wonderful resale value and support times.
You can 'sideload' apps, but your phone needs to check in with a computer every ten days.
Launchers are no where to be seen. I'd imagine if you jailbreak it you could.
Custom roms: nah that ain't happening on an iPhone. Which is a shame, it's the best hardware in the space, and iPadOS, for example, is currently holding back the tablets.
Piracy: You can run transmission as a cli on an iPad.
I'm on a Pixel right now and it's pretty much the same experience. I nearly missed a time-sensitive job offer had I not been using my iPad a few moments before going to bed. My phone didn't serve the notification nearly all day despite being given permission to do so!
Yeah... I just wanted to connect my phone via adb. Ended up removing myself from the sudo-ers group. Since I did not know how to fix this problem at the time this caused a fresh install.
Well, I mean, in the United States our culture is built around "business good; much innovation" and anything to stymie corporate efforts is met with groans of "you'll understand why it must be this way when you're older." It's almost reflex for some to be apologists for corporations.
Heck, I even read some takes around that damned submarine being along the lines of "we shouldn't regulate the sub industry -- that CEO was just trying to innovate!"
Oh for sure! It's strange assuming my Linux device "just works" when it comes to games. Where as getting Diablo4 running on my ARM macbook was a really involved task. Personally, I'd like Apple to be more inviting and open to developers using different Graphics APIs so I could play games on the device, but that's kinda like asking a dog to speak.
I have found my calling and pilgrimage.