I'm not sure Apple would want users to run anything but Apple operating systems on their hardware, and the other way around (fighting against hackintoshes back in the day).
I hope to be proven wrong though, as their hardware is really interesting.
They've never taken issue with other OSes running on their hardware. They made Boot Camp for Intel Mac users to run Windows and wrote Windows drivers to use Apple-specific hardware like the iSight cameras. They even showcased this feature in the TV ads. Linux also worked but wasn't explicitly supported.
Apple doesn't really care about individual hackintoshers. Some of their devs have griped about the uselessness of stack traces and logs coming in from hackintoshed machines (bogus errors produced by slight hardware mismatches, drivers developed by amateur community members filling logs with garbage, etc) but they've never gone after anybody who was hackintoshing for personal use. There's even been fairly big YouTubers who've done it without issue, and back when Macs were Intel only and had abysmal thermals/performance a surprising number of Mac/iOS devs were using hackintoshes as their primary dev machines that they submitted to the App Store with.
Where they draw the line is selling hackintoshed machines or any of the tools to facilitate the process. Eliminate financial gain from the equation and you'll probably be fine.
i can only assume the poster meant apple should add linux drivers of M1/m2 to mainline linux kernel
I'm not sure Apple would want users to run anything but Apple operating systems on their hardware, and the other way around (fighting against hackintoshes back in the day). I hope to be proven wrong though, as their hardware is really interesting.
They've never taken issue with other OSes running on their hardware. They made Boot Camp for Intel Mac users to run Windows and wrote Windows drivers to use Apple-specific hardware like the iSight cameras. They even showcased this feature in the TV ads. Linux also worked but wasn't explicitly supported.
The rule is only, no macOS on non-Apple hardware.
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> (fighting against hackintoshes back in the day)
Apple doesn't really care about individual hackintoshers. Some of their devs have griped about the uselessness of stack traces and logs coming in from hackintoshed machines (bogus errors produced by slight hardware mismatches, drivers developed by amateur community members filling logs with garbage, etc) but they've never gone after anybody who was hackintoshing for personal use. There's even been fairly big YouTubers who've done it without issue, and back when Macs were Intel only and had abysmal thermals/performance a surprising number of Mac/iOS devs were using hackintoshes as their primary dev machines that they submitted to the App Store with.
Where they draw the line is selling hackintoshed machines or any of the tools to facilitate the process. Eliminate financial gain from the equation and you'll probably be fine.
I thought someone had posted here that Apple ran Linux on their hardware for manufacturing tests.
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The Linux kernel
Is Apple/macOS downstream of the Linux kernel?
No it's not