I asked this to an AI, and it didn’t say anything intelligible, maybe I’m just not smart enough to understand AI.
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You’re surprised you got bullshit from the bullshit machine?
No way… some really smart tech guys told me it will be worth a lot of money some day.
No, some dipshit tech bros were bullshitting you.
Holy shit, that’s impossible, they make a lot more money than I do, so they must be right somehow.
Did people really not read this as a joke…?
- it’s free
- runs on a wider range of hardware
- is more customizable
- can run much windows software with wine or proton
- has a large ecosystem of native software
- much of it free and open source
The advantage of Mac is it’s more widely used and thus more widely supported (for things that are supported at all). You can just buy an apple computer from a trusted source and it’ll work. Linux doesn’t quite have that yet. If more people move to Linux , you’ll find better drivers and stuff.
LLMs don’t “understand” anything. They are predicting what text matches your prompt. If you don’t understand what an AI is saying, it’s not saying anything
Macos doesn’t solve the ownership or customisation of OS problem that windows also has.
Mint does. Don’t like how macos does something? Too bad.
Don’t like how mint does something? Someone likely already has a package to fix it.The problem is asking a fundamentally subjective question in a way that presupposes it to be objective truth.
If you instead asked,
What are some advantages that Linux Mint and macOS have over each other?
…you might get more useful answers—from people, that is. AI will just give you what you think you want to hear.
OK seems like you knew what I was trying to say, do you have an answer to this question?
What are some advantages that Linux Mint and macOS have over each other?
Mint is FOSS and free of hardware restrictions, so if you don’t mind having to teach yourself how to fix the odd issue here and there, it’s probably the better option. That said, macOS is definitely a more seamless and full-featured experience (whether that matters to you is personal preference). I use it plenty at work, it’s pretty nice for the average user. Personally, I switched from Windows to Mint years ago, but now I’m on KDE Neon because I needed Wayland support and fell in love with KDE Plasma in the process. Mint/Cinnamon should be stable on Wayland within the next year or two though, so that’s cool.
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Linux = Libre
MacOS = Jail
Why is my chainsaw better than my accord?
It’s not a good question.
The way AI works, it’s likely to pick up on your style. I.e. if you ask with slang words or spelling mistakes, it’s going to answer very colloquially. And this translates to meaning… Once you ask “stupid” questions, it’s going to mistake that for a creative writing assignment. And I think your question is a bit alike »What’s better, oranges or papayas?« That’s just a weird question and you’ll get a weird answer. Linux and MacOS are very different things. Used by different people for different tasks. None of them is “better” without any context given.
Who typically uses Mint, in your opinion?
My wife and some relatives? Along with countless other people… We have a zero electronics devices with fruit on them -policy, in this household. But we do provide Lightning cables for guests… I mean MacOS doesn’t even run on a Thinkpad without several stunts and a day of work involved… You need to patch the UEFI, do something to the graphics, patch the ISO, or happen to have the exact right model. And it violates the terms and conditions. So MacOS isn’t really an alternative, is it?
What does your wife usually do on the computer?
Whatever people do on computers… Surf websites, do emails, online-shopping, organize documents, vacation pictures, paperwork, type letters, draw diagrams, watch videos, do video conferences, stuff related to hobbies… I mean she isn’t a programmer or designer by trade or anything like that, but computers are just useful tools for a lot of things.
Wen I was a kid, my mom had a website where she talked about different pies she invented, or something, I don’t really know.
Does your wife have her own website about things she made?
Nah. She doesn’t. And I think the days of Blogs and personal websites are mostly a thing of the past. These days people doomscroll on Instagram. But I have some fond memories of the good old times as well. I used to have friends (of different genders) who would write publicly about technology, sugar-free recipes, I knew someone who did styling videos on Youtube. But that toned down as we all grew older and got other things to do, and the internet changed as well.
That sucks, I miss blogs a lot, we should all do blogs again.
In my experiemce it’s not. Unless you’ve not got Mac hardware, in which case it’s your only choice from those two options.
Now, how is Mint better than macOS on older Macs?
Well. I used OCLP to run Sequoia on my 2014 Mac mini. It ran, but it was a dog egg. The fan was basically a continuous jet engine. So I used it to dip my toes in Linux and put Mint on it. 100% improvement. Mint doesn’t mind only having 8Gb RAM, and doesn’t really give a shit what it runs. It’s modern and up to date and not growing new security holes with every month that passes. Running Mint, that little computer has become the hub of my homelab. Sure, there’s better hardware for the task, but the best gear is the gear you’ve got, right?
However, if my M2 MacBook could run Mint, I’d still be running Sequoia on it, because there’s a swathe of shit that macOS does out of the box that it’s taken me a year of using Linux to give up trying to emulate with any level of success.
But not macOS 26 though. Oh Jesus fuck no. I’ve tried it on the M1 mini I have and it’s fucking awful.
while you’re probably looking for some very tangible reasons in a bullet list of how its better, there’s really one foundational reason and everything else is a distant second.
Linux (mint or otherwise) is your OS that you use on your hardware. Period. It’s not going to tell you how to use it, what is allowed, what is right, or anything of that nature. It’s yours. Have at it.
I‘m a big fan of FOSS but it really depends on what you’re looking for. For work I’m completely fine with a Mac because I have a proper terminal and don’t have to deal with windows. It’s a walled garden so I don’t spend any time thinking about what I would do, I just focus on shipping code.
I think the price of Mac Minis and some of the MacBooks is actually competitive for what you get. This is not because I think Apple is good value for money, but because I think other hardware has become so much more expensive.
If you want to run something that you can customize and that’s forever free and yours, Apple is obviously the wrong choice tho
I’m a really big fan of both Mac Mini and Mac Studio. Macbook Pro is good too, but it is overpriced compared to the other two machines. It’s not as ‘idiot-proof’ as some people believe, though. Most people don’t know their settings, I’ve had trouble with this on the Mac too, the settings menu is intense, Windows-level privacy vs end-to-end encryption, all dependent on settings.
It’s not
Anything Snow Leopard and before > Linux Mint > Current macOS.
But why?
