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The MacBook Pro introduction in October caused unusually negative reactions among professional users due to the realization that Apple no longer caters equally to casual and professional customers as it had in the past [YouTube video]. Instead, the company appears to be following an iOS-focused, margin-driven strategy that essentially relegates professionals to a fringe group.
This has well-known developers such as Salvatore Sanfilippo (of the Redis project) consider a move back to Linux. Perhaps that's a good moment to look at the current state of Mac hardware support in the kernel. While Macs are x86 systems, they possess various custom chips and undocumented quirks that the community needs to painstakingly reverse-engineer.
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(Score: 2) by theluggage on Wednesday December 14 2016, @11:44AM
I have only run Linux since 1995, so maybe I am out of date on these recent controversies?
Why would someone want to run Linux on Mac hardware?
Newsflashes you may have missed since 1995: The Mac OS you knew is dead, replaced in all but name by NeXTStep (Unix with a nice GUI), and modern Macs are actually x86 PCs with minor firmware differences.
Some "Power User" types like(d) Macs because it offers Unix + GUI + native versions of MS Office, Photoshop etc. for when you had to share files with muggles - plus the hardware was cute, and used to have a nice form/function balance and careful attention to detail.
However, Apple's new prime directive is "a computer can never be too thin, too expensive or become obsolete too quickly" and everybody who isn't totally blissed out on the Cupertino Kool-aid thinks the new MacBook Pros suck, and are starting to think that their current Mac may well be their last.
So, people have Mac hardware that (currently) meets their needs, but isn't going to be replaced when it wears out, and a planned transition to Windows or Linux is on the cards.