[jbverschoor]

It's a strategic move from Apple to allow other OSses. They could've gone the iOS route, requiring jailbreaking.

They know very well how they became so big. It was in the early 2000's, because they had the support of many developers.

[flomo]

Yes and no. Specifically, Mac was lifesupport marketshare until Intel. Bootcamping or VMing Windows was a huge selling point at the time. (But maybe in the long-run, it turned out that UNIX was more valuable after all.)

With apple silcon, Apple is dropping what was a huge feature -- Windows. Ability to run Linux distros on Mac hardware is like rounding error hacker stuff.

[rdsnsca]

Less than 5% of Mac users used bootcamp according to Apple.

[Wowfunhappy]

Now, but I expect it was a lot more common in the early days of the Intel transition.