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Announced in early August and initially planned for the end of the month, the Fedora Asahi Remix distribution is finally here for those who want to install the Fedora Linux operating system on their Apple Silicon Macs.

The distro is based on the latest Fedora Linux 39 release and ships with the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment by default, using Wayland.

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[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Overpriced for what they are? Agreed. Weird elitism from some of the user base? Absolutely.

You sound almost as zealous when you say:

tried out Mac os and ios every major update, and found it to be entirely unenjoyable

I get that it’s not for you which is fine, but you tried every release of MacOS and iOS and hated them all? Okay bud.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say hated, but definitely possessing of many ui/UX choices that were about as well thought out as how windows had old/new control panel plus the new new settings app and yet everything was still counterintuitive. I merely gave it a chance repeatedly because I ran a computer business up until covid hit and needed basic familiarity, and people kept telling me it was better than everything else and really if you don't game it mostly is for many workloads, but I still found things to be rather clunky especially system navigation on iOS. Not saying android is better or anything either because while it suits me more, there is so much infuriating dumb shit.

Basically because of every other offering feeling like it's ripping me off, Linux being free and having tons of customization beyond simply cosmetic and several people making different solutions to each problem most of the time and also free, coming back to anything else with any combination of hardware, software, and money entry barriers just feels like the worst value proposition possible. Maybe if I was born into wealth and a social media addict I would have been an apple fanboy.