Asahi Linux progress report

Posted Mar 13, 2021 10:54 UTC (Sat) by wookey (guest, #5501)
In reply to: Asahi Linux progress report by dottedmag
Parent article: Asahi Linux progress report

"I wonder why there is so much negativity about anything Apple does."

Because they are a horrible outfit who've done some disgusting things over the years. I'm never going to forgive them for the outrageous abuse of design patents in the Samsung 'oblong phones with round corners' case, for example. Also their walled garden approach is the antithesis of what I want in my computing (which I why I have never bought anything from them). On the other hand their approach to privacy makes them significantly less reprehensible than other large players these days, so they aren't _all_ bad :-)

But the M1 is really nice hardware (I am very impressed with the battery life, at least under macos) and so long as it's not 'tivo'd' then I don't really care how it's booted. UEFI would have been nice, but if we have to deal with some other special scheme then it's annoying (especially for distros), but we can cope.

Asahi Linux progress report

Posted Mar 14, 2021 2:34 UTC (Sun) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (1 responses)

Steve Jobs was obnoxious and was responsible for the Samsung case. I think Apple has been much more innovative, in ways that matter, under Cook and has been no worse a member of the open source community than most other corporates. The M1 laptop could have been much more locked down (like iPad) than it actually seems to be. Making it easy for other OS's wasn't Apple's priority but hindering them doesn't seem to have been the goal either. The good thing is they have kicked the ARM laptop door open (there were chromebooks but they were not regarded as high-performance machines) and other vendors, and Microsoft, need to take notice and maybe evolve some standards.

Asahi Linux progress report

Posted Mar 14, 2021 4:45 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

> The M1 laptop could have been much more locked down (like iPad) than it actually seems to be.
Give it time.

M1 laptop is replacing a fully open X86-based laptop. Of course they can't lock it down immediately. But I'd be surprised if it stays equally open in 10 years.