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> If I would by the new M2 with the new MacBook Air: Same problem would doom the complete hardware. And I would have been stuck with the OS that Apple deems I can have.

There is nothing preventing you from installing an alternate OS on AppleSilicon Macs. Apple supports this officially via something called Apple Secure MultiBoot.

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What alternate OS? The one where developers are still in the process of reverse engineering Apple's SoC?

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That would fit the second part of my message.

It's usable (like right now) and certainly will be when Apple drops macOS support for it.

This was not an option until MacOS 12.2, and AFAIK is not "officially supported" or even documented by Apple. Can you link to somewhere where they describe supporting this?

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