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It’s honestly pretty disrespectful to the people who have put a bunch of absolutely amazing work into this project to dismiss it as an “unsupported hack”. It’s

It’s honestly pretty disrespectful to the people who have put a bunch of absolutely amazing work into this project to dismiss it as an “unsupported hack”. It’s true that we are never going to see first-party support for Linux from Apple. That kind of sucks, and it would be much better for everyone if they had a more open and documented approach to this new platform. But it does at least have explicit support for booting third-party operating systems, and the attitude of the team behind the project is clearly not “hack together a prototype and we are done”. I guess the point is that it’s not black and white, and there’s a large spectrum between “first-party support” and “unsupported hack”.

_xy8h 5y ago
Perhaps you should expand your definition of what 'unsupported hack' means instead of taking it as an insult. I support the work of anyone who gets Linux running on any hardware, I condemn the difficulty in which Apple unnecessarily restricts people from doing what they want with the hardware they own. It is an unsupported hack because Apple doesn't provide means (such as documentation or code) for people to run what they want. So anything you can do will always end up being a method that Apple may decide to close up with later software updates and everything has to be reverse engineered from scratch. Contrast this with AMD and Intel code in the Linux Kernel contributed by those companies themselves and being able to just boot from USB using a user accessible BIOS/UEFI loader. It's Apple's restrictions that make this necessary to be a hack.