The only reason this project is getting so much PR is because of Apple. Apple's PR machination is eager to show that developers are fully behind its new Apple S

The only reason this project is getting so much PR is because of Apple. Apple's PR machination is eager to show that developers are fully behind its new Apple Silicon platform, and thus works behind the scenes to give this project the publicity they need. (Everybody knows what happens to platforms that don't see developer support). But more than that, it is also to spread the fudge that the M1 supports alternative OSes, where as the reality is that it will never support a fully features OS - Apple's business and design goals with the M1 was to create a locked desktop that can only run macOS and only allow other alternate OSes to run using virtualisation on macOS, so that the users data can always be mined. And they have successfully done that. The developers behind this project are naive to believe that Apple will let them sabotage their efforts to lock down the macOS platform, like the ios platform that earns, that earns them billions of dollars. The locked-down M1 desktops / laptops are just one of the last step towards this goal. As I said elsewhere, just look at what has been happening to the Mac Mini: 1. The first few Intel Mac Minis allowed you some level of customisation of both the hardware (change RAM or HDD / SSD) and software (install other full featured OS). 2. Then came the Mac Minis with soldered RAM and SSD. You could no longer customise the hardware. Software was still customisable and you could still install other OSes. (Recall that Apple even offered free drivers for another OS, i.e. Windows). 3. The current generation of M1 Mini now doesn't allow you to customise both the hardware (everything is soldered) and the software. Technically you can install other OSes, but the reality is that currently only crippled versions of Linux and xBSD is available and practically the only full-featured OS available for it is macOS. These are clear indicators of how Apple has been working slowly to lockdown the Mac platform like their ios platforms. The frog is still slowly boiling - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog - to keep you in denial. Now the only thing that remains is for the bootloader to be locked, and that will the last nail in the coffin of the M1 desktop platform. And it will happen in the near future once the M1 platform reaches a critical adoption point. (I can understand why the project developers are hostile here to critics like me - the good publicity has been bringing them money, and that's quite rare for an open source projects).