[ehutch79]

I have a hard time taking this seriously.

Its not 1998 anymore. The idea of building your own disk image to install an OS for general usage is a bit b0rked.

It's different if you're developing that OS or actively porting or something.

Edit: TO be clear, the line " However, MacBooks ship with macOS, an operating system several of us consider much less impressive." changes how the article reads for me. Something like "lets investigate linux performance on these machines" would make this read entirely differently

[philwelch]

Maybe it just isn't for you.

The full line is: "Those chips are really impressive. However, MacBooks ship with macOS, an operating system several of us consider much less impressive." That perfectly explains my personal feelings about the issue, which is why I was curious enough to click on this in the first place. If you don't feel the same way, that's a perfectly normal difference of opinion. I do feel this way and I think maybe if I get an M1 MacBook I'll use this post as a guide for how to install a usable OS on it ;)

As for:

> Its not 1998 anymore. The idea of building your own disk image to install an OS for general usage is a bit b0rked.

Installing Arch Linux on an M1 MacBook seems pretty far from "installing an OS for general usage". Arch in general isn't "an OS for general usage". Some people are hobbyists who are willing to do things the hard way. It's fine if you're not one of them. Oftentimes, I'm not one of them, either.

[ehutch79]

Yes, that is the whole line. But like i said, it changes what the article is about for that to be in the thesis of the article. It takes it from a exploration to a recommendation.

Considering the other threads going around in other posts today, it's clear that a lot of people on here consider desktop linux to be superior and more user friendly that macOS.

There's a lot of people who seem to think this kind of thing is a thing normal people would be willing to do with their time. Like they think the rest of the world is just like the target audience of hacker news.

[philwelch]

Nobody is trying to tell you that you have to run an ARM fork of Arch Linux on an M1 MacBook. You're taking this weirdly personally.

How would you feel if people made disparaging comments about your hobbies being the sort of thing that "normal people" aren't "willing to do with their time"?

[FeepingCreature]

> How would you feel if people made disparaging comments about your hobbies being the sort of thing that "normal people" aren't "willing to do with their time"?

I mean, also, that seems to apply to almost every hobby, depending on how restrictively you define normal.