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Who buys a Mac and uses FOSS? I feel like that venn diagram has very little overlap.
Uh, like, a ton of them. Especially developers. Ever heard of homebrew, dude?
Students who hate Google docs and donβt have the cash for word?
LibreOffice is a good productivity suite in its own right. And there's a fair amount of Mac-specific FOSS. Some people just like the Apple ecosystem I guess.
Yeah, it's a weird combo for FOSS because macOS is quite the opposite of what FOSS stands for. However, quite a few people think it's the best and.. I don't know
Iβm a teacher. I do.