nooo but they pinky promised they were The Good Guys!

this is the reasoning i used to buy linux-first laptops 10-ish years ago before this one.

Because as a general rule I am not techy enough to fix things when they go wrong, and in my experience, budget windows laptops tend to have things that go wrong. Fans die, components need to be replaced, et cetera. I'm a big fan of linux, and I've been full-timing it for at least a decade now. I never plan to change out my desktop, and if I ever end up with a second laptop, I'll likely keep linux on one of them. Fedora is an absolute joy to use. But sometimes, and especially when it comes to the thing I do actual school work on, I don't want to have to do things like running a virtual machine so that I can access the one screen writing program that my school allows, or deal with inconsistencies in which apps, websites, or services just refuse to play nice. It's not a fault of linux, it's a fault in the world that they won't allow certain things to function with the OS that most of the internet is built on. Like proton drive. Love it. It's great. But still no desktop client for linux. Not even a snap out in ubuntuland. I kinda... Just want simplicity in my life right now, and I don't want to have to worry about cheap hardware falling apart, and excellent software that the powers at be have decided isn't going to get acknowledged. And sadly, I'm not smart enough to do anything to help that situation for myself.

i bought a budget windows laptop and put linux on it too; how is that getting boned?

My thinking is basically that I am broke. I've got 400 or 500 to spend, and that's coming out of student loans. If I get a budget windows at that price, even with the linux boost to it, I'm going to be kinda boned. That's not a lot for a laptop. But the m1 air seems to be really holding up

Why not get a lenovo for 1/4 the price and either install linux or buy one from them that ahips with linux... I always go on ebay, get a used thinkbook or some such device (dells have also been easy to put linux on), that way I'm not paying money for the windows license that I have no use for. It's not that hard to put linux and it will have much easier compatibility with your other devices. Mac will lock you into the mac ecosystem and in a few weeks you'll be back on here for iphone recommendations, because your macbook says fuck you to anything not apple related. Apple is a lifestyle brand. They want you running around with the apple watch and the iphone and this and that "smart," device and there is just no room for your linux or android compatibility if you want to be in the mac club. It's really just a cult.

i think i might do the same thing soon since framework costs as much as a mac and linux-first laptops like system76 are re-badged clevo laptops with mac price tags.

in the past, i always put fedora on my macs and i think i'll do the same thing with asahi linux when it comes time to get one.

i use macs with macos for my work laptops and the transition has never been difficult, except for the control key placement, but mac makes that easy to solve.

If you used GNOME mainly, the transition probably won’t be too bad. GNOME is the Linux DE most like MacOS. I used GNOME for years before buying my first MacBook and I wouldn’t say I felt right at home, but I was home-adjacent lol. Still mainly use Linux on my desktop, but don’t mind switching to my MacBook when I’m on the go. It helps that MacOS is Unix-based, so it’s way more compatible with my workflow than windows, and a lot of CLI tools I used in Linux just transfer right over.

Let me know if you have any specific questions about anything.

for me macos have premium user experience.

Did a check on Google Maps too. They certainly have also removed some data, but not on the same ctrl-alt-del level as Apple.

Be warned though. I did one random scroll through Southern Lebanon and it’s revolting. And these satellite images are outdated by months.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/XNmUdaBuUVUA6qau7

From Apple's perspective, they struggle with the mighty burden of tax breaks and cheap overseas labour against a backdrop of market dominance and some of the largest profit margins per device. It is outrageous of the unions to think that US workers could steal even an inconceivably small proportion of that fat profit for working. ......... /Britsh Sarcasm.

Why do you like that?

He's also one of the genuinely, nicest people in the tech world. In the olden days, I'd see him at WWDC SF or MacWorld and go say hi.

I like that the reason to keep him was that it was cheaper, not that they were rewarding loyalty or anything like that.

Sync to your PC via iTunes? Or copy paste the music folders and go through each one to rename the files to the actual songs. There's probably a tool for this on the internet.

This might help: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/transfer-music-ipod-computer/

What OS?

Without any software if you open the iPod in file explorer or maybe finder you can show hidden files and just copy paste them. The problem is they’re organized in whatever fuck ass way Apple organizes them and none of the names make sense.

There’s software that will extract it nicer but I can’t remember the name for the life of me.

It features a 6-core GPU and a 4-core GPU.

Nice job checking your article Mac Rumors.

That said I'm glad the 16e got a successor. Its a banger of a phone for the money.

The official Apple release pages have some general details, and there’s a writeup on Ars Technica tha’s based off of Apple’s published info.

This changes things, do you know of somewhere where the exact contents is released/discussed?

I thought that was just laziness by the Apple web team. So there are serious bugs out there for Apple devices and Apple won’t tell us which are affected or give updates to anything other than their latest iOS?

My praise may have been premature.

With the departure of Alan Dye from Apple (https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job ) hopefully sanity will return to their UI/UX, but it might take a few iOS versions (read: years) to break the glass.

Apple sometimes takes a day to publish them. Kinda annoying.

There is nothing of value in iOS 26. If your device has AI then there's some things.

In fact I would argue it's almost universally worse in almost every single way. I wholesale regret updating.

Not security updates; itagv2 and bug fixes for 18 and 26, and certificate updates for 12 and 15 to keep stuff that requires an Apple ID functioning post-2026..

Just updated from 18 to 26. Absolutely nothing about it is better.