Truscape

More power to you - but you are a portion of Apple’s userbase that will not receive the same level of support or adoption as the mainstream userbase, and largely not emblematic of the “average MacOS customer”.

I do agree with your reasoning though (and I’d probably be much more cheerful in helping someone like you compared to the rest of my IT clientele who used Apple products as-is).

Isn’t that a Firefox fork, not a productivity suite?

Edit: realized you meant FOSS software that didn’t retain mainstream telemetry/ads

As someone who lives and works in Silicon Valley, the amount of coworkers and colleagues in my experience in engineering using non-default MacOS configurations is nonexistent. There are things like Asahi Linux (which is an amazing project, don’t get me wrong), but let’s not pretend that the people who use open source software on MacOS are not fractions of a percent compared to the general userbase.

In fact, my experience working in IT professionally and assisting friends and family personally has only underscored that view - those who were actually using Linux and FOSS software professionally were not on Apple hardware (and knew what went wrong and what assistance was needed). Those who I had to assist with Apple hardware… were different strains of “technically inept” who managed to break their experiences despite using default settings (kind of impressive I suppose).

These are Mac users we’re talking about here - they’re terrified of anything not produced by a corpo.

They’re a decentralized hydra - why do they have to care about smoke? XD

They’re the pirate bay of literature and auditory art - and there are plenty of places that can become their harbor.

Didn’t Russia legalize patent theft or something after 2022?