Right, because I’m to blame because no one can prove that macOS costs money.

Being certain of a fact is not evidence of whatever bigoted thing you’re accusing me of.

Why are you even hung up on this point when it wasn't even the context of my original statement.

My god you are fitting the stereotype.

I still use wine for most of my games on the desktop.

The last version of MacOS I used was $130
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger

It's clear you're acting in bad faith at this point - you've completely skipped over anything else I said in my original comment.

And in my original comment, I said they hadn’t charged for it in about 15 years. And it’s been almost exactly 15 years.

Right, I’m the one “fixated” on this, but all of the people like you dog pile on me, and trying to insist a fact isn’t true aren’t “fixated”.

Seems like projection to me. And deflection from the fact that you can’t prove your point.

Me: points out of fact

You: you’re acting in bad faith!

It still doesn’t make any sense to me. Do you think I’m acting in bad faith because I acknowledge a fact, and you won’t? Or is it because I keep poking holes in your logic?

Sounds like hurt feelings to me

Just because they stopped selling it doesn't mean it's free. The only legal way to aquire MacOS is to buy an Apple product, or somehow get an upgrade from one of those old paid versions (which since this happens through the App Store now, you still need an Apple product).

Windows is also not free even though you can download the iso. There's license terms

Building momentum for the year of the Linux.

You know, the one we've been reading about for 20 years.

Get it to run Office and you've a game changer.

Yes, yes I know Libre/Open Office but try telling Shelly in Accounting who still struggles with Excel after 36 years of experience.

You misinterpreted what I said in that initial comment, asked if I was hallucinating, and when I clarified this misinterpretation, you proceeded to skip over anything I had said beyond the first link.

You are not giving any valid counter arguments to what I said in my original comment (in fact detracting from the original point of this whole thread by speculating you hurt my feelings?), this is why I believe you are acting in bad faith.

They support web browsers

I believe macOS 26 will be the last that'll run on Intel hardware. So functionally, a year from now, Hackintosh is dead. Well, Hackintosh running the current macOS, of course. I imagine there'll be a thriving community working to keep existing hardware chugging along.

It'll be interesting to see the momentum of Linux on Macs though. If Asahi manages to crack those last few hurdles with the M1/2 hardware, it'll be a rock solid OS, particularly as ARM64 software becomes more common. Suddenly you'll have a bunch of incredibly capable Macs going cheap because they can't run the largest macOS.

Am I supposed to feel bad for you?

Your entire comment threat has been bad faith. It’s amusing that you’re accusing me of what you’re doing. But whatever.

It’s free because it’s free, not because you can’t seem to wrap your head around that fact. Or whatever pretzel branded maneuvering you’re trying to do to validate your position

macOS is free. There’s really no way you can twist that to be untrue. Not without making stuff up.

Go take an economics class

Bro actually said it’s the year of Linux

You're not allowed to use it after downloading it for free unless you use it on Apple hardware that it paid for. If you don't have Apple hardware you only have a file you're not allowed to use. Paying for Apple hardware pays for the license permitting you to use it.

That's like saying that using a fixed cost subscription service is free because you're not paying at the time that you access it.

Or Adobe, that’s the most frequent complaint