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Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 by smoldesu on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:42AM (#34883249)
I like Macbook hardware, but I left because MacOS is only getting worse. It's not hard to sympathize with others who feel the same. Nevermind the downward spiral of design trends and wasted screen space, Apple has made no efforts to improve MacOS as a compatible dev platform. UNIX certification means very little when the most popular open source software is broken out-of-box on your OS, and your hardware vendor actively avoids implementing open APIs like Vulkan. There's no point for me to buy a laptop that Apple owns.

For many people, it's less about the hardware and more about telling Apple to fuck off. I'm among the latter, getting kicked off MacOS when Apple made the overnight decision to depreciate 32-bit software. Onwards to greener pastures, I suppose.

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Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 by Reason077 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @12:25PM (#34883869)
It's not made by Apple, but MoltenVK is free, open source, actively developed/maintained and works well on M1/M2 hardware. It's used by many commercial game ports to Mac/iOS devices.

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

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Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 by smoldesu on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @12:50PM (#34884232)
It's a nice project, but more of a testament to how high the demand for a standardized graphics API is. If Apple could commit to an open graphics API stack, a lot of industries could start depreciating DirectX.
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