Couldn't Apple make a change that renders all this work a waste of time? i.e. lock out other OSe's from booting for example. I applaud the effort but given MacOs is already a capable unix I don't see the rewards being worth it.

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MBCook 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They could have done that day 1 of Apple Silicon.

It’s clear Apple went out of their way to make Asahi possible in a secure way. I believe people on the Asahi project have said as much.

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jasoneckert 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

macOS is a capable UNIX, but it's not Linux - which has since become the standard platform for most cloud/web/ML development.

As a developer myself who uses Fedora Asahi Remix as my daily driver, I can also tell you that Linux runs 2x faster (often much more) for everything compared to macOS - on the same hardware! And that performance gain is also important for my work :-)

	▲	small_model 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Totally, I have a mini forums pc that runs void linux that I ssh into from my MB air. My worry is hitching your wagon to a project that could stop working one day through no fault of the devs.

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Teever 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They could which is ultimately why we need regulators in the EU to premeptively ban those kinds of anti-repair anti-ownership kinds of business decisions.

Consumers should be allowed to install whatever software they want on decides they own.

	▲	small_model 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I agree, can't see Apple doing it so should be fine. The hope is once M1/M2 is done its less work to get M3-M5 working