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Sharing here because of the post from 14 hours ago.

In my case, I thought I could survive a few weeks on a Surface with a fresh Windows install because I'd been planning to sell it. Now that it's turning into my daily driver with no real end in sight (and with all my thumb drives packed away), I have Yet Another Flash Drive™ arriving this evening so I can go back to KDE precisely because of this sort of bullshit.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Depends on what the public wants. Apple kills backwards compatibility every couple of decades and they have an even more minute gaming presence than Linux does. Like, so small Valve gave up on trying to support it in games like CS2, their most popular title, even as a company deathly afraid of the Windows monopoly.

You could make arguments for consoles and such, but that doesn't solve the problem of Macs being particularly costly.