Subtle hostility

nilay patel @reckless 26 nov

 

I haven’t plugged the M1 MacBook Pro review unit in for three days. Have been using on and off this evening. Battery: 60 percent

M.G. Siegler@mgsiegler 26 nov

 

Speed aside, this is a truly incredible difference that is causing me to change behavior…

That’s awesome. A little less awesome is the subtle hostility of Apple toward user freedom and Software Libero. As we can read on Linus Torvalds Would Like To Use An M1 Mac For Linux, But..

The new Air would be almost perfect, except for the OS. And I don’t have the time to tinker with it, or the inclination to fight companies that don’t want to help.

Linus Torvalds about porting Linux to Apple’s M1

It’s only a matter of time and we will get it. We already have the low-level but very cheap Pine64 Pro.