Comment by DeathArrow
16 hours ago
>Yet 2 days ago, Tuxedo Computers announced they were abandoning Qualcomm due to crap support. (
Does Apple offer better support? Qualcomm offers commercial support. I guess Tuuxedo Computers didn't pay for the support?
Apple is a non-sequitur. Tuuxedo is giving up on Qualcomm in favor of AMD and Intel.
Do AMD and Intel require Tuuxedo to pay for premium support in order to get working Linux drivers? No, of course not.
Qualcomm's support for Linux is embarrassing when you compare it to pretty much any processor manufacturer except Apple.
Apple doesn't actively lock and act hostile towards the reverse engineering folks. They just do their thing and sometimes do small jests to allow these folks to boot anything they want and play with the hardware.
...and while they're standing away from GPL stuff, they do have a dedicated site for Open Source software: https://opensource.apple.com/
Go to releases, and see what they do there.
if you are in the business of buying parts, assembling them, and selling the assembly under your brand (as tuxedo and others like them are), then Apple is a indeed not an option. Their chips might be the best, but you still can only get them in Apple devices, in the specs Apple provides and with no official support for any OS beside macOS / iOS.
Macs have an open bootloader that allows users to run an unsigned OS like Asahi Linux (without having it degrade security when you do boot MacOS).