[nicolas-siplis]

I'm curious as to Apple's angle here. They have always had a closed ecosystem, so I'm wondering what made them change their approach so drastically.

[rsynnott]

I'm not sure there's ever been a Mac where you couldn't boot your own OS. Maybe the very, very early ones, but Linux for the later M68k and PPC Macs was definitely a thing.

[alwillis]

I used to support a lab of triple-bootable Macs—macOS/Windows/Linux.

Current macOS is more locked down due to privacy and security threats primarily, not because Apple doesn’t want you to boot a non-Apple OS.

[asddubs]

AFAIK this was always planned for the m1 macs

[pharmakom]

Personally, I will only consider a mac if there is the option to run Linux.

[saagarjha]

Mac.