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It is happening already happening - I can run macOS, Windows, Linux, xBSD, Android ports etc. on my Intel Mac Minis. But with the ARM Macs, your option are limi
by webmobdev 4y ago
It is happening already happening - I can run macOS, Windows, Linux, xBSD, Android ports etc. on my Intel Mac Minis. But with the ARM Macs, your option are limited to macOS and crippled Linux and xBSD because they can't use many parts of the SoC (like the GPU).
But it is thanks those vocal critics that Apple hasn't been able to go full monty with its plans to fully close the mac platform, and chosen the slow and careful approach to close the system closely, with every iteration. Once the adoption of the Arm Macs reach a critical point, they will close it. Closed ARM SoCs are the wet dreams of every computer manufacturer as they allow them to fully control the system at the expense of us consumers who get locked-in with less and less choice. However, good the Apple ARM Socs maybe, the x86-x64 platform today remains the only viable "open" & truly multi-OS platform for general purpose computing.
- astrange 4y agoDoesn’t the GPU already work in Asahi? You’re not locked out of it either. It’s proprietary but that isn’t different from Nvidia. x86 isn’t that open since some of it is still patented by Intel/AMD and it has an ME, microcode, etc in the CPU. (The M1 has neither.)