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by js2 2040 days ago
I realize Federighi's reply seems to rule out Linux, but the context of the question seemed to be with respect to Boot Camp and Windows. My take is that Apple doesn't want to continue to invest in Boot Camp, especially since Microsoft apparently isn't willing to license ARM Windows for this use case.

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.
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heavyset_go 2040 days ago
> 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.

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Synaesthesia 2040 days ago
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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js2 2040 days ago
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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fomine3 2040 days ago
Proprietary original GPU must be a problem.
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