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Honestly I can only imagine it's because the team enjoys the challenge. Once they get bored/fed up, goodbye Linux on Macs.

If you think you want to run Linux, don't buy hardware from a company that views it as a threat to their business model, simple as that.

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You're just stating the problem the parent content was upset about. It's all well and good to state the facts and say "face reality" but in this case we all apparently know that it's a fragile state of affairs.

> If you think you want to run Linux, don't buy hardware from a company that views it as a threat to their business model, simple as that.

Show me any hardware that is 100% "libre"? Even the pinephone itself has plenty of closed source blobs running as firmware.

It doesn't have to be 100% libre. This is about booting any OS you want in the first place.

If you take some random windows laptop off the shelf, it will boot linux (and continue to do so in the future) because they have to support UEFI. If you take a "linux" friendly vendor off the shelf, you may even have coreboot or something on-board.

But with this apple situation there is no guarantee the next generation of hardware won't lock you out, or they might push out an OTA firmware update that locks you out. It's like porting linux to the playstation or something.

False dichotomy. You know very well there is a spectrum on which Apple resides on nearly the opposite side of pine phone.

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