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i'd get an m1/m2 macbook pro second hand that can run asahi linux. even for macOS, the latest version atm (26 Tahoe) is an absolute dumpster fire so i'll get something that can run monterey.
macos is not that bad, you still have to fight the OS to disable intrusive features but not as bad as windows. and macports is good
Asahi while being an incredible project, that I fully support the people working on it, is not very usable.
It's running, sure, but you will miss very important hardware features such as hardware acceleration and speaker. You cannot tell someone "Buy a supported mac and install Asahi on it!" it's not honest about what how your software will utilized your hardware.
i heard they sort of fixed the speaker/gpu and the only 'missing' feature is thunderbolt.
oh, I need to look into it again for my old macbook.