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Almost every time I hear something new about the boot loader on these M1 Macs it's always something that on it's own would be a huge deal breaker. It's not eve
by swiley 6y ago
Almost every time I hear something new about the boot loader on these M1 Macs it's always something that on it's own would be a huge deal breaker.
It's not even the weird ISA that causes this, Apple's PowerPC macs used standardized firmware with documentation. All of the crap they do to prevent their users from tampering with their own machines just makes them unusable.
- akie 6y ago> makes them unusable Such hyperbole.
- swiley 6y agoNot being able to quickly and easily whipe the machine when something goes wrong means it's practically unusable: There will always be accumulated state and it's much harder to safely get rid of.
- EricE 6y agoYou can quickly wipe the machine - it just works in a different way. Stating that the machine is practically unusable is indeed hyperbole since that statement is patently false.
- tomjen3 6y agoIf you deem Big Sur entirely unusable, I guess so. It has a few quirks that I don't like (mostly related to retarded fullscreen handling), but it has a bash terminal, can run Goland and is the only computer I have had any luck using my in ear sony head phones on.
- swiley 6y agoAt this point windows has a "bash terminal" and also comes with openssh preinstalled (which is all most people I know use their macs for anyway.) Furthermore, Apple stopped updating the bash in OSX and at this point it's crazy out of date. They even changed the default shell to zsh because of this.
- tambourine_man 6y agoBash and openssh is a far cry from the development machine most Mac users rely one.
- tambourine_man 6y agoApple made a whole infrastructure to allow you to install alternative OSs. All oficial and fully documented.