Average people still game. And Linux is improving rapidly. Apple isn't.
BladeFederation
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You known what, good job Apple. You've been winning me over lately. I'm not sure I'd exactly recommend this route to people, the 8 GB RAM is rough even with macOS being more efficient with it. But in the RAM-pocalypse we'll take what we can get, and the rest is fire for budget range.
Sure there is, so you can put Linux on it!
That is so true, and can't be underestimated. The budget laptop market absolutely blows these days. I got a 1300x768 screen, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB storage (albeit HDD), and ~2 GHz CPU in 2016, for $500. That was at Best Buy, who tried to sell $100 HDMI cables at the time, and wasn't even a great deal, though I was fine with it.
Now the budget market is...pretty much the same. Slightly better 1080p screen, same RAM, 1/4th the storage (but usually an SSD), a significantly better CPU that has most of that CPU progress kneecapped by Windows 11. It's GRIM out there.
"What could be worse than MICROSOFT overseeing open source software? Wait no! It was a rhetorical question!"
It's supposed to be for Android 16 kn general once the feature is fully baked
It works fine enough. It's not going to replace my desktop PC any time soon but it helps a lot for anything involving word processing/documents, as well as gaming on TVs and monitors.
CryptPad is encrypted Google Docs/Office 365. Proton has been expanding their offering for this, but it's not as good in my opinion.
That's why I like it actually. It forces me to interact with the community, it's more organic that way, and I need to eventually move in with my life instead of doom scroll. I get to the end and go "well that's the end of the internet for a day or two"
Let's gooooooo
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Which is why you buy a Windows machine, then put Linux on it. You said there's no reason to buy a Windows machine. Even if you abandon Windows forever, there's still a reason to buy it. There are use cases that Apple silicon is not good for, like gaming. And having competition is good.
Kind of a weird example to say that people won't online shop too. That's far more common for all types of people than walking into a store is these days.