That is an absurdly large QR code. I recently switched to MacOS (I know Linux exists and it’s not for me) so I’m glad I’m away from this kind of nonsense.

My love is for Linux, and my job gives me a Mac. I’m pretty happy. My first time using a Mac full time. I’m blown away how much it’s not a piece of shit like windows has become. Windows just feels like a sinking ship with bandaids all over it and slow to do anything. Christ the calculator app has a loading screen. A 386 should be able to load the windows 10 calculator app in a nanosecond. What is it really doing? Gobbling up and packaging past calculations to copilot for analysis or some shit. Ridiculous.

My love is for Linux, and my job gives me a Mac. I’m pretty happy

Same here. Absolutely love it. The only thing I don’t love is I’m not able to get MacBook without an x86_64 chip. VirtualBox doesn’t work on M-series ARM chips so I’m left without a standard way to run virtual machines :(

I’m also a Linux user who got a MacBook Pro for work reasons and Parallels is nice, especially for Windows VMs. I was also annoyed to find I couldn’t use Virtualbox on Apple silicon and reluctantly bought Parallels. It’s expensive but it has a lot of features and nice touches so I don’t regret the purchase.

Basically, it’s like everything Apple-related where you initially go “Wait, how much does it cost? Fuck that.” But then once you buy it, it’s actually really nice and you don’t feel ripped off. (Or not as ripped off, anyway.)