I hate Apple, but every time I run something resource intensive on my laptop and it starts to sound like a plane going to take off I go to Apple.com and hover over Check out button. Once there is a reliable way to run Linux on M1/2 I'll switch.
If you run msoffice apps on a mac you'll be burning cpu like no ones business. I've a 2019 macbook pro 16, fans rev up regularly as excel (or power point, or word..) is using 100% cpu. The mac window manager process is a hog also. Honestly I switched to mac for work assuming "it just works" , but unfortunately it does not. M1 are likely better, but not overly impressed on the SW side.
Why do you think that Linux would run as fast or efficiently on an M1 Mac as an operating system that was designed from the ground up to run well on it?
For devs, MacOS is still pia. Asahi is still far behind. I just don’t get why Apple wouldn’t embrace Linux. Who’s stopping that from happening now that Jobs is gone?
I don't think it's about running faster, clearly OP wants to use Linux over MacOS, same for me. For dev work Linux is still king, and I happen to also personally prefer the KDE UX over MacOS.
So while Mac laptops are great hardware wise, it doesn't run the software I want, so that's why I'm still buying laptops made for Windows.
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So while Mac laptops are great hardware wise, it doesn't run the software I want, so that's why I'm still buying laptops made for Windows.