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As a Mac user I too want SteamOS to succeed, because it will indirectly result in more games that are compatible with macOS via game porting tools and wine.
Honestly windows is just annoying to deal with. I don’t like the ads, and I don’t like my start menu bar being reorganized. I run it in a VM and managing my install keys is a huge pain with their login system.
Linux is awesome, it’s neat watching its developer friendliness result in snowballing market share.
Why not ditch MacOS? Mac's are just as bad as Windows, just in different ways.
Apple has been progressively neutering root on a path to make a laptop as much of a walled garden as iOS. Not to mention the entirely soldered RAM and SSD and then charges ridiculous premiums to get more
They're absolutely not.
Hate to tell you this but this is the direction of the entire industry. Look at the new Ryzen "AI Max" chips. Integrating CPU/GPU/RAM on the same chip just leads to crazy increases in performance and efficiency. As usual Apple paves the path to erosion of consumer choice.
I agree it's a very bad thing in general but it can also be disabled with some simple terminal commands. MS goes out of their way to constantly break any solutions consumers might find to make their systems suck less.
CUDIMM is the socket-able answer to this and it's rolling out. What's the excuse for soldering SSDs?
For now, Apple's not stupid, they know if they move too fast they'll piss off too many people so they're doing it slowly step by step.
Rolling out where? As far as I know it's only ever been installed and sold in a single device. Can't tell ya why but it is.
I don't have an answer for that one.
If that ever changes I'll change my argument. I don't think Apple really cares about the small fraction of users that will bother to mess with it.
We're only about 4 months in ATM, it's quite early
Nonetheless, it's technically sound so even if it does flop, it will have been for primarily greed reasons rather than because soldering was superior
Ah, I was thinking of CAMM, which came out >2 years ago.