Subj : Re: Any M4 Mac Mini users?
To   : Rushfan
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Jul 01 2025 09:56:08

  Re: Re: Any M4 Mac Mini users?
  By: Rushfan to Kirkspragg on Tue Jul 01 2025 05:17 am

 Ru> I don't have a mac mini, but my daily driver is a M3 MacBook Air.  I have
 Ru> to say it's by far the best machine I've ever used. It's quiet, wicked
 Ru> fast, light, and has amazing battery life. I went Air over Pro since I
 Ru> don't like the air vents on the left and right side bottom on the pro,
 Ru> those seem to cut my hand when I'm carrying the laptop.

I've heard good reviews of Apple's M* machines.  If someone isn't a big fan of MacOS though, I wonder if it would make sense (or if it's even feasible) to install another OS on them, such as a Linux distro?

I just did a quick search online for whether you can install Linux on a M4 Mac, and it sounds like only a couple distros support M* Macs currently, and it sounds like you'd end up with a dual-boot setup, rather than the whole drive being Linux.  I feel like it's hard to want to buy an Apple system, because Apple does things to make you do things their way; it can be difficult to do certain things with their machines/devices.

Nightfox
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