Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing
&gt; <i>Apple has gone in the direction of net appliances</i><p>I agree that, with &quot;Apple Silicon&quot;, they have left behind anything that could reasonably be traced back to the &quot;openness&quot; of old desktop computers.<p>New Apple systems are locked down from the silicon up, and you only get to do what Apple lets you do. As the Star Wars quote goes, <i>&quot;Pray I do not alter [the deal] further&quot;</i>.<p>Sure, some people have managed to boot Linux on the ARM cores of the M1, but it&#x27;s about as useful as pitching a tent in a corner of a stadium and declaring it useable housing. There is so much on the SoC that&#x27;s closed and out of reach that I can only see the effort as misguided.