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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:52:25 -0700
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On 2025-03-20 14:58, Joel wrote:
> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>> A Mac mini would be $1400.  What I could build for that is
>>>>> unbelievable.  Getting macOS to me isn't so amazing, Linux does OK.  I
>>>>> think Apple is like M$ selling products to high-end users first.
>>>>
>>>> What do you do that you would need a Mac Mini configured to cost that much?
>>>
>>> I use the capacity of my CPU and RAM under Linux, it would only be
>>> more burdened under macOS with needing to run WinARM in a VM, rather
>>> than having native Wine with an x86-64 PC with Linux.
>>
>> Sorry, but that is completely dodging the question.
> 
> 
> OK, let me explain, the device would need to have Windows 11 running
> in a VM, and mind you that isn't a complaint because remaining with
> x86 just for Wine wouldn't make sense, Apple was smart to dump
> IntelAMD.  It's convenient that I can operate this app under Wine,
> with Linux and x86 hardware, but in the future I would love to see
> Linux for ARM on a new device.

As was already explained to you, that's false.

WiNE is available to run ARM Windows apps on the Mac.

> 
> To address your question, directly, I upped the specs to give me 32 GB
> RAM and such.  That which would give me what's needed to make macOS
> shine as a driver OS.
But since that proceeded from a false assumption...