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> I don't care about open source

That’s fine, of course! I do, so I was offering that example as a disadvantage (for me) of owning a Mac.

> All Macs are basically the same so if there is a popular app X that people are using, I know I can simply run X too.

This is 100% not true, as there are often features shipped on the Mac that are not available on certain machines. For example, when Sidecar was first released (the feature that lets you extend your Mac’s display to an iPad), I saw a friend using it, but I could not. I can’t remember now, but either the Mac or the iPad was too old and it wasn’t supported. So all machines are not the same.

It’s true that there is sometimes fiddling on Linux, but I prefer my environments 100% free of ads and customized how I like them. Thanks to the distro I use, I typically only need to tweak/experiment to get something right once, and then I never have to worry about that thing again.



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