[smoldesu]

I'm giving the dude all the credit he deserves. fail0verflow is amazing, the stuff they did with Nvidia Tegra/Nintendo Switch was nothing short of miraculous and insane; that doesn't change the cards at the table though, and it doesn't make me any less skeptical of where all this leads. Again, I've got no intention of stopping people who are making progress, even if it's progress I disagree with, but he still has to prove himself here, and I'm not entirely confident that we're going to end up with "Linux, but on the M1" without a number of asterisks trailing the statement. That was the case with the Switch, that was the case with the PS4, and it's unfortunately crawling in that direction for the M1 as well.

[marcan_42]

I fail to see how you can equate the Switch and PS4, platforms designed to disallow the user from running their own OS, and where the manufacturer actively works to stop any such attempts, to the M1, where the manufacturer actively invested in developing the infrastructure required to allow users to securely boot their own OS.

If you're talking about building a sustainable community so the end product is polished and upstreamed and ready for end users, I'd say we have that with the M1. Things are already getting upstreamed and there is more than enough momentum. This wasn't the case with PS4, which was just me and a few other fail0verflow folks putting together a proof of concept. It helps when you don't have to spend cycles finding exploits and can focus on delivering a working OS :)