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Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2
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My view is that all corps are slimy, some are just more blatant about it than others. I do agree that Apple stuff tends to be overpriced, and I've love to see somebody else offer a similar architecture using RISCV that would target Linux. I'm kind of hoping some Chinese vendors will start doing that at some point. What Apple did with their architecture is pretty clever, but it's not magic and now that we know how and why it works, seems like it would make sense for somebody else to do something similar.
The big roadblock in the west is the fact that Windows has a huge market share, and the market for Linux users is just too small for a hardware vendor to target without having Windows support. But in China, there's an active push to get off US tech stack, and that means Windows doesn't have the same relevance there.