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I agree, and that's exactly what they had done before now! I am glad they've done this and think it's a good thing all round, but it would be nice for the expectations to shift and the standards we hold companies to be higher where a situation where they allow you to install your own operating system without jumping through hoops is viewed as the norm as opposed to a benevolent action.


Not exactly, before now they added a feature to boot any arbitrary OS. Yes, it had to be a Mach-O, but they didn't need to add this AFAIU… See the kmutil doc: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1333126018068955136

https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/kmutil.8.html

I recall an Apple developer saying that no one internally believed it would get any traction, but they did it anyway.




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