No need for snide remarks. That "every other laptop" company runs stock x86 which has been documented and supported by Linux since day zero. Dealing with custom Apple hardware is a major fuck-you from too many angles.

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rossy a day ago | parent [-]

Which angles specifically? It really isn't that clear cut. For example, the "every other laptop" company engages in "DRM as vendor lock-in" practices that Apple does not: a PC laptop with Secure Boot disabled can't watch 4K Netflix in the Windows partition, but an Apple laptop with Asahi can in the macOS partition.

Also, if you've bought a high-end PC laptop in the past decade, you'd know that you still can't get one without prior research to see if everything actually works with Linux.

	▲	306bobby a day ago \| parent [-]
		> a PC laptop with secure boot disabled can't watch 4K Netflix... It can't? Not a laptop, but my desktop still has L1 without secure boot enabled. Don't have Netflix subscription to actually test your claim but idk what they'd be detecting / requiring outside of that