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Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver
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I know this isn’t going to stop people like you from continually telling me “Apple is bad,“ but I literally said in my other comment, “Apple has a lot of problems” lol
It's not that "Apple is bad" it's that you're commenting about how you're glad that companies like Nvidia can't fuck with you, while being seemingly oblivious to the fact that Apple absolutely can fuck with you because you're running a proprietary OS using proprietary drivers on proprietary hardware. Apple has more power over you than Nvidia does over Linux users, yet you're commenting here like Apple is a better choice.
Dude please read what I said. This is what I’m talking about. Apple screws with me in other ways. I am saying this is one specific angle they do not. It does not mean I think they’re squeaky clean. Actually read the words I’m writing. These aren’t long comments.
You specifically state that you're glad that your CPU and GPU aren't a vector for companies to fuck with you, but they are a vector for Apple to fuck with you. Apple just hasn't done it (yet?)
DINGDINGDING.
One company is doing it. The other isn’t. If Apple starts doing it, then I will change over. Why is this difficult? 
I would love to avoid being locked in by my vendors. I've spent an inordinate amount of time doing that at the software level. Mullvane, FF, I'm on fediverse now and don't use any mainstream social media, I run a bunch of open source privacy software and security programs, the works. Hardware is just a lot more difficult to break free in. For now, Apple is the least-worst of my real options. And I'm glad that at present there are no issues with the silicon chips on the same playing field as we see with Nvidia.
Ultimately this computer is my tool for a job. I'd love to go to Linux running on hardware I can trust and control, but I simply can't. I cannot do my work with it.