It has been 7 years since Valve revealed Proton, their compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux systems. What an incredible time it has been.
  • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    410·
    10 hours ago

    I never said that. But it does show how this black-and-white all the nothing approach makes no sense.

    macOS is free because it’s free.

    • olympicyes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      I have a MacBook Pro 15” 2018. I paid around $3K for it new. What is the cost for me to update to macOS 26 Tahoe or the one that comes after it?

      • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
        33·
        9 hours ago

        And in my original comment, I said they hadn’t charged for it in about 15 years. And it’s been almost exactly 15 years.

        • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
          61·
          9 hours ago

          Just because they stopped selling it doesn’t mean it’s free. The only legal way to aquire MacOS is to buy an Apple product, or somehow get an upgrade from one of those old paid versions (which since this happens through the App Store now, you still need an Apple product).

          Windows is also not free even though you can download the iso. There’s license terms

          • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
            23·
            9 hours ago

            It’s free because it’s free, not because you can’t seem to wrap your head around that fact. Or whatever pretzel branded maneuvering you’re trying to do to validate your position

            macOS is free. There’s really no way you can twist that to be untrue. Not without making stuff up.

        • Tortellinius@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          8 hours ago

          Sure, and if you got modern hardware with Windows 7 on it in 2009 then you had up-to-date free Windows since 16 years.