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Two big use cases. You want to run MacOS and Linux on the same hardware, and you boot into each OS separately at different times.
Or, you have old personal or enterprise hardware sitting around, and you’d like to repurpose it for Linux. That use case is a tale as old as time.
Hmm ok that makes sense, I could see using a lightweight distro after Apple updates run out
Apple is still updating all their arm macs, even the old M1s.
My guess is that you’ll get a lot of people who are are on newer M series hardware, but kept the old stuff around (I’m one of those people), or you get these larger / midsize enterprises that just accumulate a shit ton of 1-3 year old computers that are perfectly fine, but are just gathering dust.
Just bought my first ever apple device (M1 MacBook Air), because I needed either windows or Mac for school, and I got tired of jumping through hoops with virtual machines and low end hardware on used windows machines I'd put Linux on. I miss Linux as my daily driver terribly, but I do know now that my next windows/Mac machine will be mac. And when that day comes, I look forward to putting Asahi on this little MacBook Air. It's great hardware, and I'm hoping Asahi will have matured a lot by then and be a great experience.
I still use a little M1 Air as a daily driver, but I have some of the newer hardware for work, and now I want to upgrade to that stuff. The newer Apple Silicon is kind of nutty.
Still though, for a 6-year-old machine, it’s still perfectly fine for day-to-day stuff. I only notice the crunch when I throw some of my processor intensive software development toys at it. The latest dev beta of MacOS 27 even runs great on it.
Apple does a lot of shitty stuff, but their silicon game has been solid.
Honestly, I have been stunned by how well this little machine does with only 8gb of ram. It's at least as snappy and smooth as my yoga with 16 GB of ram running Fedora was before it broke. I do miss daily driving Fedora, and I've been keeping a list of things that irritate about macos vs Gnome/fedora just to see how the transition goes over the next year or so. But honestly, for my workflow it's been amazing. That said, I am primarily a browser based user and not a very techy person in general.
Oh, also, having an actual desktop top to sync proton drive has been *amazing *
Yeah, I also only have 8 gig in mine. I used to run into problems when I had multiple accounts running, with each accounts actively running Adobe apps, Figma, IDEs. That ‘lil fella couldn’t take that lol.
The Macs with 16gig can handle that abuse with no problem. 8 gigs, not so much. Lol.