They’re being pedantic but they’re also just factually wrong. The last few generations of Intel macs have an extra security chip called the T2 chip that makes it incredibly obnoxious to get the hardware working correctly on Linux. The wifi cards are also proprietary and you need to extract their firmware from MacOS in order to use them on Linux.
Edit: on top of that the last few generations of Intel macs didn’t sell well because they overheated and the keyboards broke easily so they’re already at a disadvantage in terms of support even compared to the apple silicon macs
I like how the last commenter is both pedantic and simultaneously clueless.
They’re being pedantic but they’re also just factually wrong. The last few generations of Intel macs have an extra security chip called the T2 chip that makes it incredibly obnoxious to get the hardware working correctly on Linux. The wifi cards are also proprietary and you need to extract their firmware from MacOS in order to use them on Linux.
Edit: on top of that the last few generations of Intel macs didn’t sell well because they overheated and the keyboards broke easily so they’re already at a disadvantage in terms of support even compared to the apple silicon macs