So, if the machines last a long time without Louis Rossman style of issues, getting a M1 Macbook for NixOS in about a few years might make sense. Very nice.
He is an outspoken advocate of electronics repair, educator on repair techniques and has a repair business. You can find his many videos about repair on YouTube. He comes up in pretty much any thread on the "Right to Repair" movement, so people who read those threads on HN usually hear about him.
He is the owner of a repair shop in New York and specializes in repairing Apple Products.
He became famous for his Youtube Channel[1] where he regularly rages about Apples repair policy and for his regular appearance in Right-to-Repair Law hearings[2].
The style of issues he has to deal with are stupid design on Apple part that compromises longevity and resilience. Like really retarded, easily avoidable crap. And sheer spite.
A guy who earns his money by repairing apple products, talking bad about apple products. I get it. Everything for the clicks and subscriptions on youtube.
While apple is known to be unfriendly for 3rd party repairs, the sad reality is that a lot of hardware vendors are going that way.
Also, stating you will have to wait a couple of years to buy a M1 macbook makes 0 sense as by then the latest macbooks will have M<something> and the issues with 3rd party repairs wont be addressed in the hardware revisions of the M1 macbooks released now.
You will need to buy one now on speculation that Linux support will ever be finished. Apple will quit making the m1 long before work is finished. The battery may not even be good by that time. Just today, news of m2 going to production is on hn front page.
>>While transitioning to 100% recycled materials is critical to reducing the sector’s footprint, it is also fundamental for Apple and other major IT companies to design products that last, are easy to repair, and recyclable at their end of life.
