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I'm not saying it makes it OK, but Apple has gotten a pass for many years for having more barriers to booting another O/S than these steps.
by highwaylights 4y ago
I'm not saying it makes it OK, but Apple has gotten a pass for many years for having more barriers to booting another O/S than these steps.
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoNot from me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31178408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31178408, not from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31165505 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31165505 For the record, Google has also been doing the same for a lot of time now (Scary Boot Prompts if you try to run Linux on bare metal, but all is fine if you run containerized Linux on top of Google's OS). They don't get a free pass from me, either.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoApple Silicon maybe, but Intel Macs always made it very easy to boot other operating systems, you just had to hold down the option key while booting. T2 Macs had some complications with Linux, but that was due to a lack of support on the Linux side. My understanding is that recent kernels work fine.
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoYou could also set whichever operating system you wanted as default, then you didn't even need to hold Option.