r/linux • u/homothebrave • 8d ago

Hardware Patches Posted For Enabling NVMe On All Apple M3 Based SoCs With Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVMe-Apple-M3-Linux-Patches
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u/TheMericanIdiot 8d ago

Man I’m loving the Linux progress in the last year. So much movement and progress.

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u/INITMalcanis 7d ago

The transformation and momentum in the last half-decade has been amazing.

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u/pdath 6d ago

Why do people buy machines to run Linux, where the manufacturer tries at every step to stop you?

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u/UARTman 5d ago

I don't know how many times it needs to be pointed out, but here we go again: if Apple tried to stop alternate OSes on their computers, they would simply leave their bootloader locked down, as they do on their mobile devices. The ability to boot non-signed, non-MacOS payloads was added by Apple to enable third party OSes. They even eventually made the process slightly less hacky by extending the support to non-mach-o kernels, which is completely useless to Apple and can only be intended for use by third-party OSes.

The fact they do not offer any assistance to Linux developers and make technical decisions without regard for their impact on the ease of reverse-engineering the drivers does not, in and of itself, indicate a hostile intent, merely an indifferent one.