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Comment by ericmay

1 day ago

> It would also be nice to be able to install Linux too. It's my own hardware, after all!

You can install both Windows and Linux on MacBooks. For Windows you may need to buy Parallels[1] or something but you can do it.

[1] https://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/

Are you sure? It is my understanding that Parallels is just a VM, like VMWare Fusion, and that there's no way to natively dual boot Windows on Apple Silicon.

Looks like you're right about Linux though, I didn't know about Asahi Linux. Thank you for sharing.

  • It achieves the same thing or close enough. Apple isn't going to spend engineering resources (i.e. time and money) to build an easy way to install Windows. There isn't really a point for them to do so. There are other ways around it to be able to actually install Windows 11 specifically but Parallels is going to be your best bet.

    Sadly I also can't natively install my Nintendo Switch software on my Xbox.