> and to never do anything that other people than the owner want
Windows 11 is full of ads, telemetry, and AI slop, much of which is impossible to disable. Very few owners want this.
Re:MacBook Neo
by chocochunks on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:01PM
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There's a few really great OSs that have even less ads, telemetry and AI slop than even macOS (and yes, it has all those things just less than Windows 11). Those OSs will run on the Acer today. They might maybe someday run on the MacBook Neo, but not right now.
Re:MacBook Neo
by NetMageSCW on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:19PM
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The purpose of an OS is to run applications. Windows and MacOS have the applications people want or need to run.
Re:MacBook Neo
by throw-the-towel on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @05:58PM
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Other OSes can run the browser, which runs many of the applications you want.
Re:MacBook Neo
by nolist_policy on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:55PM
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So? Acer also makes Chromebooks.
Such people would always take any laptop Acer makes (or from many other brands), over anything made by Apple.
I have grown up in a country occupied by communists, and one of the most frustrating things was that the right of owning various kinds of things was denied to the majority of the population (including computers).
After eventually no longer being subjected to such oppressive laws, in recent years I find astonishing how easily people in countries like USA are willing nowadays to accept severe limitations to their rights of ownership over the things they buy, while in other places people have died in the hope to obtain such rights.