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"Operating systems by current version" Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6

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[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's the only world where apple is ahead 😂

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I will say that in 2021 the M1 Mac mini was probably bang for buck the best computer you could get. Granted, that was mostly because GPUs were insanely expensive/inflated. But I was pretty impressed at the price points for those machines at the time. My buddy nabbed a refurbished M1 a few months after launch with 16gb ram/1TB SSD for $950 IIRC. He brings it to set for DIT/assistant editing work, still going strong entering 2024

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Can we install Linux on M1 machines yet? Last time I tried it was a nightmare and I failed miserably.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Yes, using Asahi Linux. Its not perfect, but very usable.

[–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Yes, Asahi via

curl https://alx.sh | sh