Comment by willis936

Comment by willis936 3 days ago

3 replies

That's the thing: amazing hardware. I want two things: good hardware and software I trust. It's going to be hard to trust a for-profit company selling a closed source OS, but Apple is doing a much better job of consistently talking and walking respect for user privacy for many years. There may be another reason beyond incompetence that they're not rushing out half-baked chatbots wrapped in privacy disasters.

int_19h 2 days ago

The other problem is things like DRM being increasingly common. Last I checked, many video streaming providers either don't support Linux, or only serve low-quality videos. With Macs you know they'll get support.

  • bobdvb 2 days ago

    Many content rights contracts I see instruct the streaming platforms that they must detect Linux and either give low quality or deny the playback entirely.

    It's because, rightly or not, they don't trust Linux in comparison to MacOS and view it as a piracy vector.

    • int_19h 2 days ago

      I think it's because stuff like HDCP pretty much requires a "trusted" (i.e. locked-down) implementation.