But because Intel Macs were mostly just PCs under the hood, the company could rely on Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Broadcom, and other companies to actually provide drivers for most of the important components. To run a fully functional copy of Windows on Apple Silicon Macs, someone would need to re-create this driver work for Windows, too.Īpple provided some Windows drivers for Intel Macs for components like its mice and trackpads. They have explicitly developed the ability to securely run third-party OSes and bootloaders on these machines, and left the rest to us.'

'We do not have any expectations of direct support, documentation, or additional development effort from them, nor do we expect them to attempt to hinder third-party OSes in any deliberate way. 'Apple's approach to third-party OSes is essentially 'have fun,'' explains the Asahi Linux Introduction to Apple Silicon. Which is basically a Chromium wrapper.Further Reading Four-person dev team gets Apple’s M-series GPU working in Linux I guess this is because they are using Electron. I'm using Firefox on Mac sometimes but I would never ever use Edge.Īnd regarding Teams: I'm using Teams with my iPhone because the Mac.app is melting the battery like icecream in the sun.

Apple Passwords is just working with Safari. All the goodies it has like Private Relay and so on are just in Safari. Safari is especially made by Apple for MacOS. Yes, there are better examples like Brave and others but in general, Chromium needs way more RAM than Webkit (Safari). Regarding browsers: Microsoft Edge is based on Chromium engine and this makes it to some kind of a resource hog. Microsoft using their own proprietary Email standards messing with almost any other client and even their own, Microsoft and Onedrive constantly syncing till the end of time, Microsoft Office and so on. But I never encountered as much problems as with using Microsoft products on Mac.ĭon't get me wrong, they are trying hard and they are getting better and better but it is still a mess. I have tried and loved and hated a lot of software.

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