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My big concern with my Mac isn't that I want to run Linux (or ack! Windows) on it. If I was buying a PC for Windows or Linux, I'd buy something else. My big co

My big concern with my Mac isn't that I want to run Linux (or ack! Windows) on it. If I was buying a PC for Windows or Linux, I'd buy something else. My big concern is that in 10 years+ or so, it's likely my Mac won't be supported by Apple any more and there is a good chance it'll still be running. Right now I'm pretty sure I can still bodge together a Linux distro to run on my old iMac G4 sitting in my garage. IMO that is where Apple supporting booting alternative OSs is the most important bit. In 10 years (heck maybe 5 years), it's likely many of the drivers and whatnot will have been reverse engineered and we'll be able to boot up Linux and get another 10+ years out of it.

Wowfunhappy 6y ago
> If I was buying a PC for Windows or Linux, I'd buy something else. Sure, but the ability to occasionally boot Windows or Linux is nice. I've used both on my Macbook Air for various reasons—mostly games on the Windows side, but also some technical Linux stuff that wouldn't have worked in a VM.
- ogre_codes 6y ago
  Oh don't get me wrong, I am very happy Apple is leaving this open enough you can cross boot. But for me personally, it's more about the long term than next month. I suspect it's going to be at least a couple years before someone gets a Linux or Darwin/ BSD build going on this guy regardless.