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The linked announcement pretty clearly implicates a bug in m1n1, the Asahi bootloader, which appears to have been fixed. It’s beyond a stretch to attribute malice here. Nothing indicates the platform is being locked down. Users simply need to update the bootloader before updating the MacOS firmware.

It is result of Apple developers having zero care about Linux support. They could run Linux with updated firmware and report issues to Asahi developers, so they could be fixed before public firmware release.

Of course Apple never promised to support Linux in any way, but it would be nice of them to dedicate a tiny bit of testing for this scenario. I'm pretty sure that good Linux support would result in few more thousands of Macs purchases and lot of developer goodwill.

Apple has really been low key supportive of Asahi.. I suspect a number of Appleites run it

> low key

Not a lingo I expected to see on HN

Wild speculation: Probably the latter; why would Apple go to all this trouble to allow booting non-Darwin OSs and then deliberately break it?

What trouble exactly?