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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by Synaesthesia on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:41PM (#25129528)
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!)

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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by js2 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:56PM (#25129707)
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-...

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