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smith7018yesterday at 5:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

Sure but that's not really their point. They're not saying that Linux is a joke nor that it's useless; they're saying that the amount of people installing Linux on their Macs is so small that it wouldn't make financial sense for Apple to support them. Knowing how much an engineer gets paid, even staffing a small team to supporting Linux would cost Apple a couple million each year. That's not even taking support into account.


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conradfryesterday at 9:49 PM

They had a revenue of $416 billion in 2025.

That would be like you buying something at the dollar store.

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oblioyesterday at 6:55 PM

That's not why they're avoiding it, though.

They're avoiding it because installing Linux (or Windows, even), would actually decrease their income. I doubt people running Windows on Intel Macs were avid Apple Music subscribers.

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