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TBH iPhones are pretty easily replaceable at this point (if you haven't bought into the whole Apple ecosystem). Folding Pixels look pretty good.

Apple Silicon Macs on the other hand... I'm still waiting for a Linux device with no fans & comparable battery life + performance.

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Asahi Fedora with Gnome works fine on my M2.

Supported entirely on the back of one over worked, unpaid savant against the richest most anti-consumer company to have ever existed is not what I'd call 'fine' but YMMV.

https://asahilinux.org/about/ quite a few more people

also not that different from the state of support for other new devices out there. Apple's GPU architecture is also quite friendly to the project [1], as is the system security model, which is less janky than UEFI keys on PCs.

[1] https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/

Or, they could be completely open and not require a once in a lifetime dream team just to use the hardware they paid for.

Sure, but uh is there any OEM laptop vendor out there that actually provided support and/or wrote drivers for Linux? Seems to me like they all rely on third parties doing the work.

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