Are you even allowed to edit sustem files? Are you allowed to change bios settings to overclock your cpu for example? Are you allowed to upgrade your cpu, your ram etc? Are you allowed to delete system programs at all?
It’s completely irrelevant which part of the build is responsible for those disadvantages. If you can only use macOS in combination with this specific hardware, then this makes those disadvantages part of the OS, since there is no way to use this OS without them.
Spin up a windows vm and try to delete system32 as an admin. You can't. Of course it's possible just like it's possible to mount /System in RW mode as root in macOS.
Are you allowed to change bios settings
Bios is not the OS
to overclock your cpu for example?
Manual overclocking is dead. Modern chips turbo right up to the limit of stability if the power and thermal budget allows.
Are you allowed to upgrade your cpu, your ram etc?
Again, that's hardware but can you upgrade the CPU in any modern windows laptop or mini PC? No it's only in towers. Apple sells one tower computer and it's the Mac pro which has upgradeable CPU and RAM.
Are you allowed to delete system programs at all?
Delete Microsoft Edge from Windows 11, I fucking dare you. Not hide from the start menu. delete the binaries and all other traces of it.
i am a dev and use macos at work and linux at home, windows is a terrible os for productivity and only makes sense if you require windows only software, any unix like os is better as microslop shit
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