personally think it will be like iphone soon and not with new machine but with firmware update
because is new capitalist trend like chinese companies hard locking bootloaders on phones like on iphone and more
i personally use mbp14 on NixOS and its awesomeeee soo much
and yes i deleted macos ignoring asahi team “you will dont get firmware updates”(for what? to get a brick because apple make new rules? to get slower machine because tim wants to you buy new M963773 Pro Max Ultra Plus) etc etc “how you will repair if something broke” (recoveryOS terminal just exist)

my next laptop will be framework if macbook die
linux works many times better than tim bloatware

  • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    I very much doubt it. The only reason Asahi is even installable is because M series Mac were designed to allow installing other OSes. I know that sounds crazy, especially with all the reverse engineering needed to get Asahi to work. But without intentional design on the part an Apple engineer working on the initial M series chip, installing alternative OSes would be impossible.

  • atomicStan@programming.dev
    1·
    10 days ago

    Asahi Linux is basically top notch engineering for free. Unless it gets (really) big, I don’t see any reason for Apple to even consider putting it down.

  • lengau@midwest.social
    1·
    10 days ago

    Right now Asahi increases the value of ARM based Macs slightly since there’s another market of people who will buy them.

    Once Asahi means that people can keep end-of-life ARM based Macs running, the calculation for Apple will change.