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Re:Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux by oblio on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:14AM (#35451798)
> Seeing how you can resurrect much older hardware with Linux, the only question that remains is why some freaking companies still refuse not to support Linux with their software - and I'm not just talking about Adobe here, but companies like Panic, Pixelmator and others that choose to be Mac only.

Statistically people who use hardware from 15 years ago won't pay much for brand new software licenses :-)

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Re:Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux by fevangelou on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:00AM (#35455369)
And this is what you understood from that?

Intel Macs will soon become obsolete. Lots of folks will not just throw away a few years old machines. So between the choice of ditching perfectly fine hardware due to an unsupported OS or switching to Linux, it's really a no-brainer. Unless of course you live in the SV bubble and change devices every 6 months in which case kudos to you.

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Re:Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux by oblio on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:43AM (#35456043)
I was referring to this:

> Seeing how you can resurrect much older hardware with Linux, the only question that remains is why some freaking companies still refuse not to support Linux with their software - and I'm not just talking about Adobe here, but companies like Panic, Pixelmator and others that choose to be Mac only.

Those companies don't care because those people are non-clients anyway.

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