On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 11/11/2016 11:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-11-11 at 08:33 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> Just to address this specifically, I am referring to Apple's penchant for
>> stuffing their machines with hardware from vendors that don't play well with
>> open-source (for example, switching to wifi-only devices and shipping Broadcom
>> chipsets with no open-source drivers). Then also playing games with their
>> bootloader system so that we have to go through lots of hoops to trick it into
>> letting us install.
>
> The whole 'you're only allowed to use OS X in virtualization on top of
> real OS X' thing is fairly actively hostile too.
>
Then there's
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/5c8s1k/warning_2016_macbook_pro_...
which looks like Apple is now going to start reporting incorrect PCI IDs to make
their NVMe SSDs unbootable to alternate OSes...
So really then they're just on feature parity with some of the other
modern ultra books from the likes of Lenovo then :-)