[cromka]

Since Apple actually makes a significant amount of money selling hardware itself, I really wonder why they actually wouldn't allow people to install Linux on it, with a full support. After all, it's not like this would jeopardize macOS/iPadOS AppStore earnings — Linux users would simply buy into Apple Hardware they haven't even considered before, and only a fraction of macOS/iPadOS users would switch to using Linux.

[socalgal2]

do they disallow it or just not provide active support? Active support requires paying for employees to keep it working. Ignoring it and having volunteers do it requires nothing.

[cromka]

You make it sound like these are the only two options, meanwhile what they _most importantly_ fail to deliver is documentation.

And that's for macOS. For any other platgorm they actively prohibit any third party operating systems.

[bee_rider]

I think the comment up one was about Linux on the iPad, which is mostly impossible. Well, iirc there are some projects to get, like, Alpine Linux running inside iOS, but it is emulated or something, and pretty slow, no gui, quite limited, etc etc.

[dangus]

Last I checked, Apple makes more revenue on services than on Mac and iPad combined. With higher profit margins.