personally think it will be like iphone soon and not with new machine but with firmware update
because is new capitalist trend like chinese companies hard locking bootloaders on phones like on iphone and more
i personally use mbp14 on NixOS and its awesomeeee soo much
and yes i deleted macos ignoring asahi team “you will dont get firmware updates”(for what? to get a brick because apple make new rules? to get slower machine because tim wants to you buy new M963773 Pro Max Ultra Plus) etc etc “how you will repair if something broke” (recoveryOS terminal just exist)

my next laptop will be framework if macbook die
linux works many times better than tim bloatware

  • atomicStan@programming.dev
    2·
    15 days ago

    Asahi Linux is basically top notch engineering for free. Unless it gets (really) big, I don’t see any reason for Apple to even consider putting it down.

  • gravitasA
    1·
    14 days ago

    There is legal precedent for removing a “feature” like the ability to boot an alternative OS. It might not be big enough for a class action to succesed in the case of apple, but it would certainly be a legal hassle to deal with.

    Theres also the unspoken agreement between hackers and corpos that so long as they allow linux to boot there is no need to break their secutity models publicly and embarass them.

    Apple benefits a lot more just by having different hardware architecture these dayss, afterall they still get paid if you buy their hardware and put different software on it, but apple doest make jack from allowing x86 hackintoshs to exist and they never really fought that hard against those either.

  • erin@quokk.auOPEnglish
    33·
    15 days ago

    also apple really do brick after firmware update but to everyone not only asahi users by using 60Hz screen refresh rate :clown_emoji: