Re:Introduction to Apple Silicon
by Rebelgecko on Monday August 01, 2022 @11:47PM
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Wait what? Did Intel macs have EULAs that go into what OSes you're allowed to install on the hardware you "own"? It blows my mind that we'd need Apple's permission, unless you're just licensing/renting your mac
When I used to have a personal macbook that I got to keep after an old internship, I even was able to find instructions online that helped me split the SSD between Linux and MacOS, with filevault still working on the MacOS partition and full disk encryption through LUKS like normal on Linux. It did require temporarily turning off filevault and SIP while doing the partitioning (and when setting the linux partition to boot by default, although that's not required by any means), but once the setup is done, it works fine after turning it back on.
The EULA on the Apple Silicon Macs allows you to run another OS.
Apple put in a large amount of work to design a system that applies security settings per partition instead of per machine, so that installing an unsigned custom OS doesn't require you to turn off "Secure Boot" for the whole machine.