I usually just buy cheapish laptops with Windows and dual but Linux. With that said, I'm digging new Mac hardware. Good battery life and fast.
Install windows 10 or 11 LTSC from here.
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Activation scripts are available from this same source as well.
Use a tool like O&O Shutup after major updates.
This gives you much longer support with much less of Microsoft's BS so you can survive until Linux is a viable option.
I mean at that point, why don't you just dual boot Mac OS with your preferred distribution of Linux?
My problem is not with the Mac operating system, it’s mostly the pricing of their hardware. I’m not going into debt over it or anything, but knowing that I’m overpaying just stings a bit.
I feel we are having some kind of miscommunication. You can buy any standard x64 processor your preferred graphics card, your preferred motherboard, your preferred PSU etc. hardware to run Mac OS and Linux machine.
Are you talking about https://hackintosh.com/ ?
Only issue with that is that once Apple retires all its x86-compatible OSes, hackintosh could very likely die.
Yep, that's what I was thinking of. I was not aware they that compatibility had not carried over to 64-bit however that sucks. And you're certain there's no way to do your mission critical application over a browser environment or something similar?
64-bit is fine, I'm talking about the switch to Apple silicon. Once they fully retire x86 processors from their line, there won't be an easy code base to use on PC desktops.
Recall (and copilot) can be disabled. You can reinstall windows to have all the ads and debloat disabled using microwin in Chris Titus’ WinUtils (great tool). I do this every time I reinstall windows for clients. With Mac they are overpriced but you do get some semblance of quality and support with that as a trade off.
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