FrankTheHealer, 1 year ago

I was all in on the Apple Eco System. I had a MacBook Pro, Apple TV, Iphone, Apple Watch etc. Then my 2010 MacBook Pro stopped getting updates because Apple said its hardware couldn’t keep up with the new features they were adding.

I loved that thing. I had put extra RAM in it and replaced the Hard Drive with an SSD. Even though Apple said it was ‘too old to receive support’, it ran like a dream for several more years when I installed Linux on it. It was great for my constant distro hopping. I used it until it died in 2021.

I think it was around 2017 when Apple stopped supporting that generation of MacBook. High Sierra was the last Mac OS version to get native support. At that stage, I already had to use third party apps to do things like set ‘night mode’ to reduce eye strain at night and control my Apple TV because Apple refused to add these features natively.

Now in late 2023, you couldn’t pay me to use an Apple Product. I’m all in on FOSS. I went from an Iphone to a Fairphone. From A MacBook Pro and Apple TV to a Tuxedo Aura 15, Steam Deck and running my own Jellyfin server on an Asus laptop with a headless Ubuntu installation.

I also went from iMessage to Signal, Apple Keychain to Bitwarden, Safari to Firefox etc

I have Fedora installed on my main desktop but I don’t use that much these days. My gf has been hinting at getting me Fairbuds XL for Christmas and I honestly can’t wait for the day that Linux will be viable instead of Android.

TL;DR Apple’s greed drove me to try Linux, and now I’m never going back lol