Apple stops supporting their own hardware all the time. They dropped a bunch of video cards especially in recent releases of the OS.
How this translates is by Apple officially dropping support for your whole computer. I guess you consider getting trapped on an old OS that stops getting security updates and becomes incompatibility with the latest applications to be superior to the situation on Linux. I do not.
Or, as others have pointed out, having to upgrade perfectly good hardware because the OS no longer supports it. That has happened to me on both Mac and Windows.
Honestly, better hardware support is one of the reasons that I have started using Linux more and more than proprietary options.
I actually really like Windows 10 but I have had way more hardware issues with it on my primary laptop. I had odd performance problems with it sometimes and the mouse pointer would lock up frequently ( Windows factory installed ). I put Windows 11 on this computer ( new enough hardware to meet all the Windows 11 asks ) hoping it would improve things. It was a disaster. My Bluetooth headphones rarely worked. Plugging wired headphones into the port would not silence the speakers. Blue screen of death ( have not see that in years - looks much friendlier now ) all the time which you know is a driver problem. Anyway, I have since out Linux on it and all my hardware woes are in the past. As I said, I actually really like Windows but it is a relief to get it off this machine.
How this translates is by Apple officially dropping support for your whole computer. I guess you consider getting trapped on an old OS that stops getting security updates and becomes incompatibility with the latest applications to be superior to the situation on Linux. I do not.
Or, as others have pointed out, having to upgrade perfectly good hardware because the OS no longer supports it. That has happened to me on both Mac and Windows.
Honestly, better hardware support is one of the reasons that I have started using Linux more and more than proprietary options.
I actually really like Windows 10 but I have had way more hardware issues with it on my primary laptop. I had odd performance problems with it sometimes and the mouse pointer would lock up frequently ( Windows factory installed ). I put Windows 11 on this computer ( new enough hardware to meet all the Windows 11 asks ) hoping it would improve things. It was a disaster. My Bluetooth headphones rarely worked. Plugging wired headphones into the port would not silence the speakers. Blue screen of death ( have not see that in years - looks much friendlier now ) all the time which you know is a driver problem. Anyway, I have since out Linux on it and all my hardware woes are in the past. As I said, I actually really like Windows but it is a relief to get it off this machine.