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Title: Forget 'Snow Sequoia'. Now I'm Cheering for Better Linux Hardware

Link: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/04/06/003...

It was long-time Slashdot reader uninet who argued "Apple Needs a Snow
Sequoia." (That is, Apple needs an upgrade to MacOS Sequoia that's like it's
earlier "Snow Leopard" upgrade to "Leopard" OS - an upgrade that's "all about
how little it added and how much it took away".) "My recent column on Apple's
declining software quality hit a nerve..." he writes in a follow-up. "So why
do any of us put up with software that grows increasingly buggy?" "One word:
hardware. And that's where I'd love to see someone help Linux take the next
step." Apple knows how to turn out very good quality pieces of hardware and,
for many purposes, stands alone. That's been largely true for the last couple
of decades. The half-decade of Apple Silicon has cemented this position. At
any price point Apple contends, Macs, iPads and iPhones are either without
peers or at the top of the market in build quality and processing power...
[I]f only there were hardware that was as good and worked together as well as
Apple's, jumping ship to Linux would be awfully attractive at this
juncture... For Apple aficionados troubled by the state of MacOS, the modern
GNOME desktop on Linux beckons as a more faithful implementation of the
ideals of MacOS than current MacOS does. GNOME is painstakingly consistent
across its different apps and exudes the minimalist philosophy with which
Apple's hardware shines... Now is a perfect moment for a modern Linux push to
take that wind back. What it needs, though, is to solve its remaining
weakness on the hardware side. One of the giants of electronics
manufacturing, tired of being stuck between the Microsoft and Apple
ecosystems, would only need to decide to commit the resources necessary to
solve the hardware puzzle... ChromeOS has grown to the extent it does because
there is hardware designed for it. Take that and carry it further by making
it good hardware utilizing the best Linux software and you'd have something
disruptive... Initially, the hardware could be "good enough" for the
software, much as Apple's software today is merely "good enough" for the
hardware. Iterating from there could lead to a genuine third way of
computing. They titled their piece, "I Want a Better Mac, so I'm Cheering for
a Better Linux." (Wondering if Dell or Sony could be the one to supply that
good hardware...) "I say this not as someone who thinks Linux will ever
dominate the personal computing world, but as someone who wants to see a
spark of creativity and push beyond mediocrity in it again. "Apple needs a
real competitor, one alternatives such as GNOME on Linux could actually be,
if only the hardware rose to the occasion."

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