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Seriously, Macs would be so much more attractive if Apple just straight up supported Linux

In a roundabout way, Apple tried this in the x86 era with OpenDarwin, and there was no interest for an Apple led open source operating system.

Apple does not have a reason to support any other operating system.

Apple engineers do however both officially and unofficially support Asahi, so there's that.

I’ll go back a little further: at one point before Apple purchased NeXT, Apple had its own version of the Linux kernel called Mklinux (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux).

Oh please. OpenDarwin lasted what, 2 years? The people running it realized their efforts were merely going towards enriching OSX, it was not a truly open source effort.

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