Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
by heavyset_go on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:37PM
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> It's not clear to me that the new Macs won't allow booting Linux if the Linux community can figure out how to do it.
Mainline Linux support requires a lot of work from vendors. Check out the ARM SoC Linux market for an abundance of examples of this problem. Many of the devices will be forever stuck an old kernel fork and will never run a mainline kernel.
Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
by Synaesthesia on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:41PM
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Getting drivers to work will be hard without Apple's help or blessing. And there are a lot of drivers.
For comparison you can check the progress of Linux on iPhones (which is actually a thing!)
Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
by js2 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:56PM
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Yeah, agreed, but my take isn't that Apple is going out of their way to prevent it, just that they have no interest in spending any resources on it. Some conjecture here about what will be possible:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/running-linux-on-apple-...
It's not clear to me that the new Macs won't allow booting Linux if the Linux community can figure out how to do it. The number of folks booting Linux on Mac via Boot Camp has to be really tiny.