[woojoo666]

I think they are just saying if you buy an Apple device to install Linux on it, you are still supporting Apple (including their walled garden approach). Not to mention Apple is constantly fighting against these sorts of hacks so you'll always be playing mouse in their cat-and-mouse game

[tmikaeld]

I'm all for open hardware, but objectively, it's either landfill or Linux, I'd rather see it come to use than become useless.

[jraph]

I completely agree with this line of thinking. That would almost makes me against this kind of projects. However, thinking about the consequences completely flips the coin for me:

- without these projects, Apple will still continue doing whatever they are doing

- I don't expect many people to actually buy a new iThing because of these projects. Maybe they'd buy second hand iThings on which Linux is guaranteed to work. So Apple is not making new money with this

- Yes, they may save some devices from the landfill

- it might show Apple that yes, opening their devices a bit may actually increase their sales (but I would not count on it)

If I ever need a tablet and these projects work out without too many drawbacks, I'd actually probably consider getting a second hand iPad and install Linux on it. At this point I'd rather avoid both Android and iOS. I'd probably look into Pine64's (and other such manufacturers) devices first though.

I hope these projects will help save 2 old iPad 2 sleeping somewhere in my family. These otherwise perfectly capable devices are worthless now just because of one thing: the old version of Safari combined with the fact that Apple forbids browsers with alternative browser engines on these devices. That's so dumb.

And I'd probably prefer using existing devices than buying new ones if possible.

So, yes please, port Linux to the Apple devices!