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Apple never bothered with EFI secure boot, and even go out of their way to do BIOS emulation for other OSs. Apple knows that on desktop computers, the genie is
by internet2000 9y ago
Apple never bothered with EFI secure boot, and even go out of their way to do BIOS emulation for other OSs.
Apple knows that on desktop computers, the genie is out of the bottle. They wouldn't block booting other OSs, just like they they still give options to disable Gatekeeper and SIP despite the FUD.
- kunimu 9y agoIsn't the only reason why they wouldn't block booting "other OSs" was because you can use their Boot Camp utility to dual boot Windows? Then someone figured out that the machine didn't care what you ran once you selected the Windows option, so they started doing things like running Ubuntu on there. Most operating systems know the genies is out of the bottle more than Apple apparently, as they let you not only customise your partition schema at install time, but you can use standard utilities to change it whenever you want. I may be misrecollecting, but Apple doesn't let you resize the Windows partition unless you do it manually from Windows/Linux, or you use the Boot Camp assistant again. The utility is deliberately built so that you can't resize the partition without erasing it. Things may have changed, though.