By: Jörn Engel (joern.delete@this.purestorage.com), January 14, 2021 10:42 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
dmcq (dmcq.delete@this.fano.co.uk) on January 14, 2021 7:26 am wrote:
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> I'm basically in agreement with Maynard about this. I've never had anywhere near as many customers as
> Apple :-) but even so a major consideration for me has always been the support costs.
You are considering a different question. Your question is "Why would Apple want to...". My question is "Why would I (or some other user) want to...".
Of course Apple doesn't care whether I, Linus or the other twelve people buy an extra machine to run Linux on it. Doesn't invalidate our reasons to prefer bare metal over hypervisors.
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> I'm basically in agreement with Maynard about this. I've never had anywhere near as many customers as
> Apple :-) but even so a major consideration for me has always been the support costs.
You are considering a different question. Your question is "Why would Apple want to...". My question is "Why would I (or some other user) want to...".
Of course Apple doesn't care whether I, Linus or the other twelve people buy an extra machine to run Linux on it. Doesn't invalidate our reasons to prefer bare metal over hypervisors.
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