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Yet it's easier to dual boot ARM Mac devices with Linux than most other ARM devices.
by PlutoIsAPlanet 3y ago
Yet it's easier to dual boot ARM Mac devices with Linux than most other ARM devices.
- fodkodrasz 3y agoAfterall having a MacOS Darwin kernel bootstrap your Linux kernel is not any worse than having a GPU do it.
- robotnikman 3y agoYep. Thankfully that is the case with ARM macs, and there is a dedicated community of hackers who are figuring everything out. Though I hear in ARM servers there might now be a standard for booting, but I haven't looked into it. Makes sense since servers, can run a variety of OS's depending on the work, I would hope such a standardization makes its way to consumer devices, but I'm not holding my breath based on how things are going.
- ethbr1 3y agoHackers continually reverse engineering proprietary magic isn't a sustainable strategy. Ask the 90-10s open source GPU driver folks.
- freedomben 3y agoApple wouldn't want Linux to be a first-class citizen on their hardware that competes with them, so this is likely a feature not a bug for them. For Linux to always be 6 months or more behind and a little bit buggy (more buggy than macOS at least) keeps them exactly where they want them. They don't want linux competitive or better than macOS, but having that free work available can drive some hardware sales to a group who otherwise might not buy them. It's quite brilliant actually, in kind of an "evil genius" sort of way.
- robotnikman 3y agoYeah unfortunately that is the case for most products. Only if they are overwhelmingly popular such as Apple products does this usually prove to be the case.