The goal is to be distro-agnostic, but I find that Flatpak and Snap both add more bloat than is worth it. Either just use distro packages, or, if you really want cross-platform, get an AppImage and be done with it.

> I would pay hundreds of dollars to be able to put my Linux on MBP with everything working.

If you want to pay for Linux on Mac, the Asahi project could always use some support: https://asahilinux.org/support/

With at least a billion baseband exploits. Smartphones are bad, but switching back to feature phones is arguably worse in these regards.

While that's in theory, reality is much more harsh. Treble implementations vary greatly between OEMs. For example, Samsung phones don't have mobile data working because of proprietary RIL used by Samsung. Also, Treble compatibility often breaks on newer versions of Android, especially for Pixels (which is quite ironic). Treble is really meant to make the job easier for OEMs and ROM devs to continue supporting a device. The GSI is really meant as a way to certify Treble.

Yeah, I like the idea of having a Meta/Command key for common GUI shortcuts, rather than reassigning Control key shortcuts like Windows does.

> … reassigning Control key shortcuts like Windows does.

Do you think of Control-C for copy as a reassignment?

It's a norm in various desktop environments. KDE Plasma 5 here, for example.

I really like the idea of Étoilé, but a lot of the docs are outdated because of the death of Gna!, and right now the focus is more on the CoreObject framework rather than the UI.

That's less of macOS itself and more how it fares on Intel hardware. My M1 Pro hasn't really had that.

> That's less of macOS itself and more how it fares on Intel hardware.

It seems fair to expect it to work well on the hardware it was sold on though. I've had the same experience as joked about above on Mac's running the OS that came bundled with the machine.

Plus, both Corellium and Asahi Linux are porting Linux to the M1 MacBooks. I have Ubuntu installed in a separate partition and boot into it occasionally. The main issues right now are audio and graphics support.

I'd recommend to disable iCloud for the offending apps in System Preferences -> Apple ID -> iCloud. I like macOS, but I don't like iCloud at all.

Yup, it's a Unix thing.