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 Since 2005, I've been working almost exclusively on Apple products. My first was an iBook G4. My last is the Macbook Pro 2015 on which I am typing this post. This coming February, I'll be taking delivery of my first new computer since 2015, and it will not be a Mac. I chose the Dell XPS 8940 for its excellent balance of price and performance. But the real reason, is because I know it will work with several of the more modern distributions of Linux, and it is engineered in a way that I can still do with it *as I wish*.
 
 Sure, there are a number of pragmatic reasons I am extricating myself from the Apple ecosystem. Among them, include several of the technology design decisions Apple has made over the last five years. But, more significantly, the change in mindset that has accompanied those design decisions. Apple no longer sees itself as creating high quality technical tools for creative professionals (including software developers), but instead sees itself as producing boutique personal appliances, whose utility is secondary to its fashion status (in particular, the cleanliness of the political messaging implicit in the ownership and use of their devices). To be fair, there is an industry-wide tendancy toward "virtue-signaling" as corporate policy, and Apple is just jumping on the bandwagon. But they're going above-and-beyond this in a number of ways. In the coming two years, owners of Mac computers won't have any access anymore to the root user, they're already losing access to the kernel, as the OS is slowly being tightened up around the new Apple M processors. We're all already familiar with the walled-garden approach toward software applications they adopted some time ago. Now, they're going to be closing all the remaining loopholes.