Yes, for small, especially non-IT businesses, it’s really hard. But thank you again for the article, I think we might (unfortunately) need such setup for different other things in the near future too.

There’s only one thing you can do: stop using it, stop giving them [an opportunity to use your data for] money. Everything other solution is mediocre at best. Thanks for sharing, though.

I’d like to know more about it too.

So far, from what I know, the main problem is the drivers for everything but CPU. Linux runs perfectly on ARM, be it Apple or not, but when it comes to something like a video adapter… with HW-accelerated video decoding and stuff… here’s where you start getting problems.

Regarding software, I run an ARM-based distro inside a VM on Apple for work and everything from what I need there exists and works.