Intel and AMD don't make the computer (most of the time). They make the CPU. ARM is as open a CPU platform as x86 is at any rate, so if you're gonna pick your l

Intel and AMD don't make the computer (most of the time). They make the CPU. ARM is as open a CPU platform as x86 is at any rate, so if you're gonna pick your line only based on the CPU there's literally no difference there. But you obviously know that's not all there is. Most computers anyone can buy are full of components that only have drivers or support in the linux kernel because people reverse engineered them. Most are also full of components that linux only works with because of extracted firmware blobs from other systems. EFI is more or less an open boot system (which.. you know intel macs used that right?), though with plenty of proprietary extensions and alterations in most booting computers, but the BIOS boot that predated it? Yeah you know that was a proprietary system right? Linux booted off it because people reverse engineered and cloned it until it was forced to be an 'open' thing. It didn't just magically happen one day and IBM even sued about it back in the day.