3 ms·

> Macbooks are locked down with Apple and forget about your own hardware. Not completely. Asahi linux boots on bare metal and runs great on Apple silicon machi

> Macbooks are locked down with Apple and forget about your own hardware. Not completely. Asahi linux boots on bare metal and runs great on Apple silicon machines prior to the M3.

panick21_ 1y ago
Mostly because Apple is so rich that they don't care. If they were not swimming in a pool of money this wouldn't happen.
- wrboyce 1y ago
  What do you suppose they would do? Seems to me that once the hardware is out there someone determined enough can find a way, no? I don’t see how this would affect their bottom line negatively either… hell, if they officially supported Linux I’m sure their hardware sales would do even better!
- NetMageSCW 1y ago
  They have unofficially added boot? code that helps Asahi Linux. They not only don’t care, they’ve actively abetted.
  - musicale 1y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578
    - worthless-trash 1y ago
      Parent tweet is dead, you know what happened ?
- musicale 1y ago
  > If they were not swimming in a pool of money this wouldn't happen. Interestingly enough, Apple helped to develop a version of Linux running on the Mach microkernel, and handed out thousands of MkLinux CDs at WWDC and MacWorld Boston in 1996. Macs have been running Linux in various ways ever since. http://www.mklinux.org http://www.mklinux.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux http://gate.crashing.org/doc/ppc/doc003.htm http://gate.crashing.org/doc/ppc/doc003.htm Windows has also been running on intel Macs since Boot Camp in 2007. It remains to be seen whether ARM Windows will ever run natively on Apple Silicon however.
  - pjmlp 1y ago
    In those days Apple was doing whatever they could to avoid bankruptcy.
- Yeul 1y ago
  How many people would even want to boot Linux or Windows on a Apple laptop?
  - dreamcompiler 1y ago
    At least one: Me. I prefer Linux to MacOS and Apple makes the best laptop hardware.
deleted 1y ago
[deleted]

> Macbooks are locked down with Apple and forget about your own hardware. Not completely. Asahi linux boots on bare metal and runs great on Apple silicon machines prior to the M3.

panick21_ 1y ago

Mostly because Apple is so rich that they don't care. If they were not swimming in a pool of money this wouldn't happen.

wrboyce 1y ago
What do you suppose they would do? Seems to me that once the hardware is out there someone determined enough can find a way, no? I don’t see how this would affect their bottom line negatively either… hell, if they officially supported Linux I’m sure their hardware sales would do even better!
NetMageSCW 1y ago
They have unofficially added boot? code that helps Asahi Linux. They not only don’t care, they’ve actively abetted.
- musicale 1y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578
  - worthless-trash 1y ago
    Parent tweet is dead, you know what happened ?
musicale 1y ago
> If they were not swimming in a pool of money this wouldn't happen. Interestingly enough, Apple helped to develop a version of Linux running on the Mach microkernel, and handed out thousands of MkLinux CDs at WWDC and MacWorld Boston in 1996. Macs have been running Linux in various ways ever since. http://www.mklinux.org http://www.mklinux.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux http://gate.crashing.org/doc/ppc/doc003.htm http://gate.crashing.org/doc/ppc/doc003.htm Windows has also been running on intel Macs since Boot Camp in 2007. It remains to be seen whether ARM Windows will ever run natively on Apple Silicon however.
- pjmlp 1y ago
  In those days Apple was doing whatever they could to avoid bankruptcy.
Yeul 1y ago
How many people would even want to boot Linux or Windows on a Apple laptop?
- dreamcompiler 1y ago
  At least one: Me. I prefer Linux to MacOS and Apple makes the best laptop hardware.

deleted 1y ago

[deleted]