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What is the Linux equivalent of a MacBook Air? Unless its literally MacBook Air and the virtualization just hasn't come far enough (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can run another operating system inside OSx, but that's a virtual machine, an entire virtual computer which you then install the other OS on.

You can also just install an OS an the actual computer. There is no way to make doing this completely impossible, and with professional hardware used by actual software professionals, trying to would be utterly unacceptable. Apple would lose an entire type of customer.

Even with game consoles, people like to circumvent the blocks around doing this and run whatever they want, for fun.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I was thinking more like how Apple doesnt want Hackintoshes (Mac running on PC?) as opposed to this up-to-date characterization you are running off of

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You lost me again. Hackintoshes exist, and the only way apple has to stop them is the legal code around software licensing.

How is that relevant?

Apple can legally stop you from running OSx without a license, because you don't have a license, but they cannot stop you from running whatever you want on your hardware.

Apple can't attach a license to hardware, limiting what you are allowed to do with it. That would be stupid.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I need to shut up now aha