That’s fair but the pressures are different for Apple than they are for you. Apple limits control of the device making it easier to plan for and control issues. Let the user do anything they want and some of them will do stupid shit and blame you for it.
It’s a boutique brand and image matters so they need to keep the karens at bay.
What will be interesting is seeing is asahi Linux comes to the neo. Apple hasn’t tried to limit Linux on the Mac, they just haven’t gone out of their way to support it either. So long as that chain of trust from boot to UI isn’t broke they seem perfectly happy with letting things work in their environment as the they planned, and outside of their environment any way you want.
That’s fair but the pressures are different for Apple than they are for you. Apple limits control of the device making it easier to plan for and control issues. Let the user do anything they want and some of them will do stupid shit and blame you for it.
It’s a boutique brand and image matters so they need to keep the karens at bay.
What will be interesting is seeing is asahi Linux comes to the neo. Apple hasn’t tried to limit Linux on the Mac, they just haven’t gone out of their way to support it either. So long as that chain of trust from boot to UI isn’t broke they seem perfectly happy with letting things work in their environment as the they planned, and outside of their environment any way you want.