Instead of going to Win11, I went Linux on Mac hardware.

I hating the thought of the day I'd have to "upgrade" to Win11 on my mobile device. Even if I went Linux it would mean there would be a good chunk of commercial applications that simply wouldn't be compatible and proprietary solutions would be out-of-reach without a mainstream supported commercial OS . It would also mean potentially having to have some kind of Windows for doing certain firmware updates.

I'm now 1 day in on using a Macbook Air M2 dual booting with Asahi Linux. I still have OSX to fall back to if I run into a proprietary application or solution I need to use or do firmware updates.

MacOS is just boujie Linux tho

Well, boujie BSD, but the important point is that OSX is commercially supported. Meaning commerical companies make and support applications and hardware for it. With desktop Linux its a "best effort" from manufactures at best. If I'm stuck somewhere and absolutely have to use a commercial application/piece of hardware I can feel pretty safe that it will be supported under OSX which is only a reboot away from the primary Linux install I'll be using full time.

Huge numbers of Windows users are refusing to upgrade to Windows 11 -- and many of them are citing its AI features as the reason why.

Spoiler: They're not. They're postponing. Eventually, they'll almost all give in to the bullying

Spoiler: They’re not. They’re postponing. Eventually, they’ll almost all give in to the bullying

My primary laptop was Windows 10. Since Win11 was so different in interface, and sucked so much with MS AI+Onedrive force feeding, it was no different effort to switch to a different OS.

I went with a Mac M2 system with OSX as my secondary OS, and Asahi Linux as my primary dual booting. So far I've only been in OSX for the initial user account creation and launch of the Asahi installer, but OSX is there to boot back to if I run into something commercially proprietary that simply doesn't run on Linux.

I'm a couple of weeks into this config so far and am quite enjoying Linux OS on Mac hardware.

I'd argue Mac hardware is a tad too expensive for a true Linux, but hey - main thing is that you enjoy it

M2 is from 2022, its used hardware. I'm also pretty sure the OS does really care about the cost of the hardware.

I meant to say you have enough performance gain by using Linux that you can run it on cheaper Hardware, that's all

I get that. I never wanted to have to go back to Windows for proprietary things. Having a Mac meant I would have OSX to fall back to if needed instead.