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It’s kind of funny that Apple-land now gets to see the same uninformed hysteria that the PC world has been rolling its eyes at for the past decade or so. Every year like clockwork I see alarmist articles about how “SecureBoot/EFI/Windows/TPM/whatever is going to block installing Linux!” and it never happens. Just tune it out; eventually you realize it’s just a way to get clicks and boost your nerd cred on Linux-centered forums.

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It's a justifiable concern, that somehow hardware companies will wall off high-end hardware from Linux because of the industry pressure behind ill-fated ventures like pervasive DRM and Windows piracy protection.

I'm glad that Apple still has the "fine, but it's your funeral" option that lets users do what they want. Secure by default, open if you want/need it.

Don't really think Apple cares much about you doing whatever you want with the hardware as long as you've paid for it.

Apart from warranty issues, yeah, they really don't care.

There's a small difference in this case -- I believe PCs with UEFI do have a certificate that allows some Linux distributions to boot.

Apple chose to exclude that certificate.

Some Linux bootloaders such as RHEL's are signed by Microsoft to avoid having to manually enter a new trusted cert into the EFI.

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