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Apple has also gone to lengths to make it difficult to run an alternative OS on their hardware. Like the Facetime camera on the 2015+ MacBook. (Fair dues to the
by raffraffraff 5y ago
Apple has also gone to lengths to make it difficult to run an alternative OS on their hardware. Like the Facetime camera on the 2015+ MacBook. (Fair dues to the person who got that working).
One of my personal laptops is a 2015 MacBook Pro, and the camera driver is the only thing I had to manually screw around with. Everything else worked perfectly in every distro I threw at it.
- daneel_w 5y agoWhat was the issue with the webcam? I presume it's not a standard USB video device? Are you sure it's really only about making it harder to run other OSes on the hardware, and not because there was some actual feature gain from whatever the customization is? I know they have put effort into locking things down a lot with the newer models with the T2 chip, and while I don't agree with it it's obvious that there are real, actual security reasons for why they've done this, and not just being cheeky and petty-minded. "Everything else [but the webcam] worked perfectly in every distro I threw at it" really doesn't rhyme with "gone to lengths to make it difficult to run an alternative OS on their hardware" in my ears. Surely they could've done plenty more than just booby trap the webcam.
- raffraffraff 5y agoI didn't say Apple has gone to extreme lengths. That would cost them a ton for little benefit. They got a 3rd party (Broadcom) to build the webcam and keep the spec a secret. Neither Broadcom nor Apple provide anything that would make it usable in another OS. I know they don't "have to", but I believe that buying a machine makes it mine, and I should be allowed to use it however I want. How many other manufacturers keep basic info a secret, and provide zero support in any alternative OS?