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They get more public goodwill from a single ad. The chronically online Linux-using engineer community is too small to matter.
by gjsman-1000 6mo ago
They get more public goodwill from a single ad. The chronically online Linux-using engineer community is too small to matter.
- huflungdung 6mo ago[dead]
- bjelkeman-again 6mo agoDevelopers build many of the applications that make the platform desirable. Steve Ballmer at least seem to get that part. ;)
- internet2000 6mo agoThe developers for their platforms. Which, crucially, Linux developers are not.
- walterbell 6mo agoApple Macbooks support virtualization of Linux on MacOS.
- bigyabai 6mo agoThat's a low bar. Microsoft does too, with a much better hypervisor.
- walterbell 6mo agoYes, Linux developers are officially supported by both Apple and Microsoft, with Microsoft developers being a major contributor to upstream Linux and WSL2 having grown into a capable Linux development environment.
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- rowanG077 6mo agoLooking at: https://stats.asahilinux.org/ https://stats.asahilinux.org/ there is still a pretty large userbase who are so interested in it they go this route. I imagine that count would easily 10x if it would be officially supported. Those numbers are nothing to sneeze at. I'm running asahi on my macbook. And never touch OSX. I wouldn't even had gotten it if asahi wasn't so well supported.
- u_fucking_dork 6mo agoAnd let’s be honest, they still wouldn’t be satisfied. The goal post would move to something else. Why don’t my AirPods seamlessly handoff to my Linux MacBook?
- mmcnl 6mo agoI doubt that. The developer community is what made the MacBook predominant in every tech organization. Before that Macs were mostly popular in the creative sector.