Apple still only start treating their own users with respect once we lawfully require them to support Linux on all Apple devices. Which is what we should be doing.
How would that even work? The bootloader isn't even locked, so it's just driver support, in which case, why should hardware companies be mandated to write linux drivers?
That might make sense for all those android tablets with 0 years of software updates, but doesn't really work for macs because they get updates for around 7 years (a few years longer if you include security updates). How many 7 year old macbooks are there that's still in use, and of those, how many are getting trashed because the user absolutely needs the the latest updates?
Although, now that I think about it, maybe NVIDIA should also be compelled to support an open-source, community-controlled driver stack. I mean, if AMD can do it, then so can they.
Laws exist to make everyone's lives better. Apple can afford it, and doing this would gift the world a breathtaking amount of value. There are no downsides.
Except costs associated with releasing internal documentation/code. Someone needs to go through and scrub trade secrets.
>doing this would gift the world a breathtaking amount of value
The tiny minority of HN readers that wants to run asahi linux on their mac?
Jesus Christ, I had a list of comebacks I was expecting, but “doing stuff costs money therefore we shouldn’t ask trillion dollar market cap companies to do stuff because then they have to spend a bit of their trillions of dollars” on it, somehow. Out of baseline respect for the median HN reader, I think.
> The tiny minority of HN readers that wants to run asahi linux on their mac?
Please at least try to make points worth responding to. Asahi Linux community is tiny precisely because Apple does precisely nothing to support this and similar projects. Surely you can comprehend this. I believe in you.
>Surely you can comprehend this. I believe in you.
For all that snark, surely you could have thought a bit more than "Asahi Linux is small because apple isn't providing documentation"? For one, how many people are were running linux on x86 macs (or even windows laptops)? Still a tiny minority. Even in computer science departments, I saw approximately zero persons using linux on mac, but plenty (but still a small fraction) on "windows" laptops.