Tangent rant

I wish I could run Linux with first party-driver support from Apple on the M series devices. To me, the premium price would be worth it and I'd buy a top spec'd M4 MBP and a Mac Mini today.

However, unfortunately due to the limitations of MacOS, my workflow has settled into using an M1 MBP as a thin client for an AMD based mini PC that I SSH into for work tasks and use for gaming. I carry my MBP + mini PC with me when a travel which is kind of annoying.

So while the M4 chips are eye wateringly powerful, especially for video editors/content creators, for me they are "big for nothing" as I can't really use that horsepower for anything meaningful (work and play).

So I don't see any reason to upgrade my M1 MBP "thin client"

Dare i ask... what is the thing you can do on linux that you cant do on mac that your... remoting into a linux pc. For gaming i sorta get it but even then most of the new and old games ive played work fine on mac recently, and for work tasks at least for what i've experienced most apps are on mac if their on linux.

It’s funny, I have a somewhat opposite setup - Surface Pro 7+ (Windows) as a thin client, M4 Mac Mini as the beefy machine, using mainly VS Code Remote over SSH. It works great for development, builds etc, and for gaming I can still use the Surface. Then again, it’s not like I have much choice because builds involve an iOS app

Naturally the option would be to be more supporting of Linux OEM laptop vendors.

Apple always has been a desktop company, the forays into the server space never were that serious, and in what concerns UNIX, mostly an implementation detail of the userspace stack that actually matters, even in the old A/UX attempt.

It's genuinely terrifying how narrow the use cases are for a Mac, and how much power Apple is shamelessly stuffing into them.