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I recently snagged a really good deal on a Macbook (very nice hardware!), but the more I use it, the more I struggle with macOS (even though a few utilities can help bring some of Windows' features).

I used to be able to completely boot into Windows on my Intel mac a few years ago, but Apple no longer supports it for some reason. It's a shame, especially since the ARM64 version of Windows 11 has gotten very good now.

It would also be nice to be able to install Linux too. It's my own hardware, after all!

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> It would also be nice to be able to install Linux too. It's my own hardware, after all!

You can install both Windows and Linux on MacBooks. For Windows you may need to buy Parallels[1] or something but you can do it.

[1] https://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/

Are you sure? It is my understanding that Parallels is just a VM, like VMWare Fusion, and that there's no way to natively dual boot Windows on Apple Silicon.

Looks like you're right about Linux though, I didn't know about Asahi Linux. Thank you for sharing.

It achieves the same thing or close enough. Apple isn't going to spend engineering resources (i.e. time and money) to build an easy way to install Windows. There isn't really a point for them to do so. There are other ways around it to be able to actually install Windows 11 specifically but Parallels is going to be your best bet.

Sadly I also can't natively install my Nintendo Switch software on my Xbox.

Apple is spending engineering resources every day to _prevent you_ from installing what you want on your own device. They're actively spending R&D money to fuck you over.

I want them to prevent me from installing things on my device. It's a feature that I intentionally pay for, not a bug.

Cool. Pay them extra for it and stop fucking the rest of us over.

I'm not following your comments here. How are Apple and I who are in agreement and in a mutually beneficial arrangement "fucking" you over when you're not part of the arrangement?

I don't know you nor do I have any say in what phone you buy, for example.

This just isn't true on the Mac- as noted, Linux installs fine. The same path is open to MS if they want to patch Windows to install on a Mac.

Windows for ARM requires specific support for each device. They don’t have it for arm macs - Windows 11 simply will not boot.

As for linux, https://asahilinux.org/ currently supports M1/M2 quite well, and is approaching ready on M3+

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