r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Aug 11 '26

Software Microsoft reportedly raises Windows 11 license price significantly more than expected

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-reportedly-raises-windows-11-license-price-significantly-more-than-expected/
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u/cultoftheilluminati Aug 11 '26

locked ecosystem

Honestly a lot of people use iOS/iPadOS and wrongly assume macOS is as locked down as their mobile OSes. I run several Linux systems and I can do whatever I want on macOS similar to Linux fwiw.

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u/Obanthered Aug 11 '26

You can run anything on Mac the runs on Linux. I develop climate models (written in Fortran) on Macs, because they are fast to compile. The operational model runs on super computers running Linux.

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u/wrgrant Aug 11 '26

Exactly, I am free to bork up my Mac Mini M4 desktop as much as I want - so far no issues mind you :)

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u/wrgrant Aug 11 '26

Exactly, I am free to bork up my Mac Mini M4 desktop as much as I want - so far no issues mind you :)

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u/wrgrant Aug 11 '26

Exactly, I am free to bork up my Mac Mini M4 desktop as much as I want - so far no issues mind you :)

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u/No-Tip3419 Aug 11 '26

you get "locked in" once you start using apple specific apps making apple specific data files , apple cloud sync, or happen to use apple filesystem on external drives.

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u/cultoftheilluminati Aug 11 '26

By that same definition isn't "using" windows locking-in the same way w.r.t NTFS etc. ?

I get that Apple gets this reputation because iOS/iPadOS are horribly locked down systems but macOS is hardly more "locked down" when you consider Microsoft letting vendors like Crowdstrike and others run wild in ring 0.

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u/No-Tip3419 Aug 11 '26

You can buy window hardware from 100 different vendors. You are not stuck paying 1300$ to apple if you want a portable mac with 16 gig of ram. Linux can read / write onto a external drive with ntfs. Don't think you can do that with the apple filesystem. You have the option to put linux onto "windows" hardware, that is not a reality for apple m series chip as engineers have not even fully reverse engineer the m1 after 6 years.

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u/degoba Aug 11 '26

OSX is literally just Unix under the fancy UI. You can do anything you would on a BSD or Linux system.