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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2026
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I will not post a link to it for privacy reasons, but I wrote an article on this the day before the original M1 was announced warning of this situation. Apples move to their own chipset meant that any attempts at maintaining compatibility would always end up behind the curve.
I am surprised that Apple manage to keep their chips constantly changing as much as they do between generations. Most others seem to be on the 'same but more' path nowadays but Apple is still shifting the baseline almost yearly.
The real issue will come if they lock down the boot loader.
I will say this, I love my M5 Air and it doesn't have An Apple Account. Like, at all. Nor did my last M2. Apple allows me more desktop privacy than Ms or Google will, and I don't have to gut the OS. I'm not motivated to because they make the horsepower available to me.
Every other machine is running some debian/Ubuntu variant today, principally. I got tired of the cat-and-mouse and all of the uosells under the hood of MS, and I just can't trust Google in this era.
Of the big three I would say that Apple is the lesser of three evils.