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Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets (www.macrumors.com)
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Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets::Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers. Apple began...

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[–] 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I am insanely interested but the apple ecosystem sucks. I use a MacBook for work because it's that or Windows, but good lord do i hate the closed source walled garden. Linux at home ftw.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    MacOS is waaay better for that than iOS though. If you squint a little and try to stick to the CLI, you can pretend it's Linux.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Or, run docker and have actual Linux.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That docker engine still runs in a small Linux vm.

    And the m1, m2, etc chips killed the use of VirtualBox for running full fledged vms :/

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    UTM will run full fledged linux just fine on Apple Silicon.

    Sharing host file systems is still tougher than Virtualbox, but time and adoption will remedy that.

    https://github.com/utmapp/UTM

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lol I do that too, but that's hardly a viable desktop experience on its own.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    but that’s hardly a viable desktop experience on its own.

    Wat?

    I just don't get it, have you tried using Linux on desktop or are you just repeating standard phrases about it thinking that sounds normal?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think you might have thought I was saying "Linux doesn't offer a viable desktop experience." That is not what I'm saying. I've installed Linux distros on all sorts of machines, including Macs, and happily used it as a daily driver.

    I'm saying that a Docker container on a Macbook can't offer a viable desktop experience.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I LOVE LOVE LOVE how I can open the screen on my mac and immediately continue where I left off. I love how the entire laptop is made out of metal that doesn't bend or warp and whose hinge works today just like it did half a decade ago.

    I hate everything else about the mac, especially how I have to pay inflated prices for everything. I hate even more about how fucking hard it is to get into the actual nitty gritty system settings on a mac. If I could find a reasonably priced laptop with great build quality and immediate boot, I'd throw my mac in the garbage or sell it off to someone else who would appreciate it much more.

    I guess I dont really need to mention I'm poor. If I wasnt Id already have got a second laptop that ran not-macOS

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  • [+] -14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    macOS isn’t walled…

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    As someone who has to support MacOS desktop....... It functionally is?

    Ok sure, it's not as bad as Android or iOS, but it's far from "anyone can simply download and run"

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    How is it “functionally” walled? How is it far from “anyone can simply download and run”? It literally is just that. Anyone can download anything and run any unsigned code. I am baffled by the fact that all the people correcting you are getting downvoted.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You can literally run anything you want on MacOS

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Totally like Counter-Strike

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, Counter-Strike is available for MacOS.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ not according to steam, but regardless there are literally thousands of games that do not run on Macs so still an ignorant statement

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I’m just curious of an example of a game or two you play that’s not available on Mac. There’s some newish tech that allows Macs to virtualize/emulate windows tech including DirectX 12. Not coming for you I’m just curious to test those waters.

    (I don’t play computer games, sorry for not knowing)

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Virtualization means it's not running on MacOS...

    And, I don't have a Mac so definitely not something I pay any attention to, but it's pretty easy to see if a game on steam supports MacOS.

    Far Cry 6 doesn't run on MacOS. I'd imagine most Ubisoft games don't.

    Edit: oh, and Counter-Strike 2... Doesn't play on MacOS. Apparently I had to be specific about the "2" version.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Looks like CS-2 runs on a Mac fairly well with no extra hardware or virtualized OS installed. https://youtu.be/7g41rsoTlVg

    Far cry 6 as well! https://youtu.be/UybZXgs-5a0

    Apple’s game porting toolkit and their M-series hardware is pretty spectacular stuff. Honestly, it doesn’t matter at all that these games are not native as long as they run. And they run seemingly well even on first gen M-series hardware.

    I think the point above about being able to run just about anything still stands.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    but it's far from "anyone can simply download and run"

    But it is? You can just right click and run any apps from any source on macos.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Not sure why you’re getting downvoted on that. It’s factually accurate. You can easily run unsigned code from anywhere on a Mac, unwalled, no problem. I’ve got a SAB / radarr / sonarr / HASS server running on old hardware with a current OS and… it’s great.

    Also isn’t Xcode free? So you can literally “simply“ download, develop, and run

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