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Apple's T2 Security Chip Prevents Linux From Installing on New Macs

posted by chromas on Monday November 12 2018, @02:22AM   
from the apple-is-now-dead-to-me dept.

Subsentient writes:

Apple's MacBook Pro laptops have become increasingly unfriendly with Linux in recent years [...] But now with the latest Mac Mini systems employing Apple's T2 security chip, they too are likely to crush any Linux dreams.

At least until further notice, these new Apple systems sporting the T2 chip will not be able to boot Linux operating systems.

[...] By default, Microsoft Windows isn't even bootable on the new Apple systems until enabling support for Windows via the Boot Camp Assistant macOS software.

From Phoronix.

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• Re:Fuck you, Apple (Score: 5, Interesting) by DannyB on Monday November 12 2018, @04:13PM

  by DannyB (5839) on Monday November 12 2018, @04:13PM (#760947) Journal

  The kind of user who isn't necessarily up to date. Lots of us remember Mac's from a different era

  Those macs from a different era might be perfectly good overpriced machines with life left in them.

  What makes macs obsolete, or so I am told, is the sudden, purely artificial, lack of new OS updates for otherwise perfectly good hardware. I heard this some years back, so it may be dated. But the pattern went like this: You can't get the new browser, because it needs the new OS. You can't get the new OS because it doesn't support your not-that-old and otherwise perfectly good hardware.

  If present day macs won't run Linux or even (pinches nose...) Windows, then once those OS updates stop, the machine really does become useless. It is like Apple is trying to inflict additional pain deliberately. But for a religiously loyal audience that has more dollars than sense, they'll just buy a new of whatever Apple says.

  _{I am not an irrational Apple hater. Back in the 80's and 90's I was a card carrying Apple fanboy and long time Mac developer. Back when Apple was a great company and led in technology rather than in fashion.}

  --
  The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.

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