I'm sure it does, and it is a slippery slope, but he/she mentioned wanting to to run Linux on a Macbook Pro. So in a roundabout way, he/she would still be run

I'm sure it does, and it is a slippery slope, but he/she mentioned wanting to to run Linux on a Macbook Pro. So in a roundabout way, he/she would still be running OSX on Apple hardware.