RPis have been pulling off Linux on ARM pretty well in terms of software support for a while now, but they’re also tinkering boards and not necessarily good for a daily driver.

Can’t say I’m surprised given how much Qualcomm has prioritized Windows over Linux support for years now.

PeerTube and Odysee have been a thing for a while. Also, Floatplane and Nebula for premium content.

Well, that leaves anyone in a trade out of the dating pool then because most of them, eg. in the carpentry field, use hammers of some kind and in some way.

Assuming most of Hollywood isn’t already Windows based given that OS still takes up 66% of the desktop market while Mac only takes up 14%.

And given Blender’s viability on the professional stage with Flow’s success, I wouldn’t be surprised if some smaller studios who weren’t knee-deep in the Autodesk and either MS or Apple ecosystems either were already Linux-based or moved over to Linux.

As for the hobbyist, they’ll just use whatever OS they’re already running generally, be that Windows, Mac, or an alternative, and I’m being vague with ‘an alternative’ so as to also count BSD or even OpenIndiana if one swings that way, in addition to Linux.

Also, the Mac Studio, assuming the M4 Max and M3 Ultra both are more powerful than the M2 Ultra, should outpace the latest, and apparently final, Mac Pro.

Apple is killing the Mac Pro.

The Mac Classic was the first Mac to sell for under $1k, and the ‘LC’ acronym stood for ‘Low-cost Color,’ that said IIRC even back then there were PC clones that were cheaper than the at-the-time cheapest Macs, and that were actually expandable to boot even if they didn’t ship with better specs out the box. Also, the Mac Classic still shipped with a 68k and 1MB RAM, maxing out at 4MB. In 1990. When the 486 had been out for a year and the 386 had been out for five years, and I’m pretty sure PCs were shipping with more than 1MB RAM by then.

Even within Apple’s own lineup at the time, the original Mac LC shipped with an '020 vs. the Classic’s 68k.

Additionally IIRC the Apple IIc was sold as a cheaper variant of the Apple II line.

Maya still has a Windows port so it’ll be fine, also, Blender proved itself viable on the professional stage with Flow.

I thought there were already some M-series iPads that gave some actual workstation laptops a run for their money though.

Similarly, the type of things currently going on with AI, most notably Grok being in bed with the Military, are what Terminator warns about.

-sigh- Dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction is not supposed to be an instruction manual, guys, it’s supposed to be a warning…

Oh hell no, don’t bring Jurassic Park to the real world, please.

(JP did this with dinos, but this is the exact thing that movie warned about, just in this case with humans instead of dinos)

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Why not just move here permanently and kill your Reddit since they clearly demonstrated they don’t want you there?

I mean, I wasn’t ever banned from Reddit, but I left on my own before that would’ve inevitably happened since I had some comments sniped for BS before they started ramping up the censorship there, and I don’t plan on ever going back.

Maya’s had a Linux port for years now; problem is you need to be running RHEL to get support.

Of course they also could’ve just discontinued that port and made Maya Mac/Windows-only.

Given MS has been testing Windows on the Cloud in the enterprise space for a while now, I wouldn’t be shocked if future major Windows versions, ie. Win12, became cloud-based.

This is why I’m glad PCs aren’t locked down like phones and there’s nothing stopping you from running an alt OS on the desktop yet.

We need an alternative made without googles shitty hands in the mix. This forced duopoly between Apple and Google sucks.

That goes for MS and Apple on the desktop too, and allegedly Google is trying to enter that space as well for the umpteenth time.

At least as far as PCs are concerned, they’re still unlocked at the bootloader level, despite MS’ attempts to lock that down, and there’s nothing stopping you from installing Linux or BSD on your PC still. Mobile devices outside a handful which aren’t locked down, unfortunately don’t have that luxury.

Android is a thing on flip phones too now though.

Don’t consider this a win, guys, this is more of an ‘Oh shit, we’re screwed if we follow through with this right now’ moment, there’s nothing stopping them from walking this back at a later, less turbulent date when no one’s paying attention, and locking Android down anyways, as this directly reminds me of the situation which caused WEI to be scrapped.

Also, the EU pushing Chat Control through the back door might embolden Google to both try an Android lockdown just like was going to roll out before, and try WEI again, and get both actually pushed through somehow.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if MS were emboldened to try to lock down PCs… Again…