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by Zak 269 days ago
It does not appear to me that Macs are closed in the sense that iOS is. It is possible, at least to install Linux on Apple silicon Macs.

There are certainly many more options on the PC side, but it's not because Apple actively blocks users from running another OS.
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kwanbix 269 days ago
As far as I understand, the only Linux you can install on an M CPU is Asahi linux. Apple is not doing anything actively, but is also doing nothing to help linux be ported.
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dagmx 268 days ago
A big issue there is that there’s a massive backlog of patches to land in the kernel and Asahi are currently working on reducing that.

Once that’s done, any distro should be able to work.

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dmitrygr 268 days ago
You have no idea how much work everyone inside the kernel and iBoot teams at Apple put into making it possible to run Linux on those MacBooks!
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