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Mostly because Apple is so rich that they don't care. If they were not swimming in a pool of money this wouldn't happen.

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> If they were not swimming in a pool of money this wouldn't happen.

Interestingly enough, Apple helped to develop a version of Linux running on the Mach microkernel, and handed out thousands of MkLinux CDs at WWDC and MacWorld Boston in 1996. Macs have been running Linux in various ways ever since.

http://www.mklinux.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux

http://gate.crashing.org/doc/ppc/doc003.htm

Windows has also been running on intel Macs since Boot Camp in 2007. It remains to be seen whether ARM Windows will ever run natively on Apple Silicon however.

In those days Apple was doing whatever they could to avoid bankruptcy.

What do you suppose they would do? Seems to me that once the hardware is out there someone determined enough can find a way, no? I don’t see how this would affect their bottom line negatively either… hell, if they officially supported Linux I’m sure their hardware sales would do even better!

They have unofficially added boot? code that helps Asahi Linux. They not only don’t care, they’ve actively abetted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578

Parent tweet is dead, you know what happened ?

How many people would even want to boot Linux or Windows on a Apple laptop?

At least one: Me. I prefer Linux to MacOS and Apple makes the best laptop hardware.

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