Your assertion seems to imply that there will be a point of no return where users are no longer able to stop buying apple hardware to run the software they want, and that therefore people should do so now.

If that's not what you're saying then your point is effectively moot, because if indeed Apple's platform control gets too egregious for some individuals then those people will switch at that point so there's no point in panic-switching now just in case.

In other words, users will switch when what Apple is offering does not meet what those users require. Some users will literally never care because all the software they use is signed and gatekept and so on; some users have jumped ship already because they want to be able to change whatever they want whenever they want. If things continue to "slippery slope" then more people will hit their own tipping point but asserting that it's going to happen all at once and apply to everyone is nonsense.

Finger crossed for mine as well!

> Their bootloader explicitly supports other OSes

That’s true but that’s probably only so that it wouldn’t have been a subject when Apple Silicon Macs were released because Intel Macs weren’t locked.

In reality, the bootloader isn’t closed (yet) but the hardware is so much undocumented that it’s easy to understand that Apple doesn’t want anything else than their OS on your mac. The « alternative os » situation is actually worse than it used to be with Intel Macs and Apple is paying a lot of attention in never talking about this "feature".

IMO, they will just quietly remove this possibility on new generations when everyone will have forgotten that boot camp used to be a thing.

> they literally don't do anything to prevent you from running another OS.

Like not documenting their hardware? Like making Asahi Linux becoming a multi-year reverse engineering project that may possibly never achieve perfect compatibility?

> They make it easy to run Windows

On apple silicon without virtualisation? Sorry, didn't know that.

Apple Silicon cannot boot Windows ARM and Apple is dropping boot camp support alongside x86 support in the near future.

Yes, but only on M1 and maybe M2 devices. Doesn't work at all on M4.

Stability is an issue (as I tested it with M1 Pro throughout the years).

Not all of the hardware features are supported. For example no external monitors through the usb-c port.

Also the project seems somewhat dead, having some core developers leave the project.

I had high hopes for Asahi but currently it doesn't seem like it will ever be fully production ready for currently relevant hardware.

Open Automator and make a droplet or service that runs `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine` on whatever file you give it. There’s a recursive option for xattr that I can’t remember but I add that one on too; I’ve unzipped stuff that had the flag and somehow ended up with hundreds of files I couldn’t open without GK prompts.

> in the name of "increased security" they've needlessly turned it into a binary thing where it's completely unprotected

Why isn't a binary condition valid? Isn't that the ethos inherent to a literal walled garden?

If you're inside, trust us. If you're outside, you don't, but don't expect us to bail you out.