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Performance, a teensie bit of insulation from long-dead software rot, and the warm fuzzies you can only get from running a free software stack.

• zepto 6y ago
  I’m guessing there won’t be a significant performance advantage, not insulation from rot. The likelyhood that Apple’s drivers at EOL outclass the driver support the community can provide seems high. On the other hand, I agree with the last point. There is an aesthetic dimension that can’t be ignored.
  • oliwarner 6y ago
    The community does a pretty decent job of supporting other Apple hardware; often vastly outperforming default MacOS (or Windows in many tests). Graphics is a particularly soft target, eg: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macos1015-win10-ubuntu&num=2 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macos101... I know —and apologies for the originally unintended, but retrospectively way-overused pun— I've compared an Apple to an orange there, and I realise it's very different hardware... But it's also not. It mostly depends on access. If developers can shim in a loader, and it doesn't require soldering, it'll be popular and get attention. These chips look too great to ignore. Not my downvote, btw. Hopefully they'll toss an opinion in too.
    • zepto 6y ago
      That’s very good to know - I have an iMac 5K 27” that is only a year or so away from losing support from Apple, which will become a Linux machine at that point.