Thanks for such a detailed reply, it's always good to get specific examples of how people use their devices. I asked my aunt who swears by Apple and the only reply I got was 'Just buy it!' which is encouraging but not very helpful.

Mostly the tweaking I do is superficial - definitely not as technical as what you do, and I don't have anything installed that didn't come from an official source so I think I might be okay in that regard. I think I'm overthinking the whole endeavour (because what else is an obsessive compulsive going to do??) because I have to learn something new. The last time I used an Apple computer I had to boot it with a 5" floppy disk, haha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

On the lemmy.nz matrix chat a while back people were talking about the new Macs with the new Apple chips. Apparently they are really nice, amazingly fast, but you can't run Windows on them anymore.

One thing I like about Android vs iPhone is how customisable it is. My wife hates using my phone because she can never work out how to find the app she wants, because it's so much different to her android phone. But it is just a different home screen I've installed, which isn't an option on iPhones.

I also install many apps from an alternate app store that has only free open source apps. I hope to one day move away from the Google app store completely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't double checked; but I think it was just that you couldn't dual-boot x86 Windows; which makes sense given the chip change. I guess the same underlying chip difference means you can't virtualise it either. But I'd imagine you can virtualise & run ARM Windows though; and as Intel/AMD fall further & further behind the efficiency curve Windows on ARM should continue to get better over time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed, you can run VMs on it, and the ARM version of Windows runs quite well under Parallels and UTM. ARM Windows also allows you to run x86 apps via emulation, and unless you're running a very heavy application or a game, you won't notice a difference. In fact you can even do some light gaming on the VMs (as long as it's not a DX12 game).