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Apple's New Hardware With The T2 Security Chip Will Currently Block Linux From Booting
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I think it's good. It'll eliminate a quarter of linux tech support posts. Can just point them to system76 or dell now.
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Originally posted by L_A_G View PostThis is a side effect of some understandable design choices from Apple, which include some pretty hefty disc encryption with the encryption key kept in an on-silicon secure enclave.
A real world analogy would be burglar protection that ends up crippling handicap access.
Seriously thou, not everything needs to be made for your purposes and considering how overpriced the new Mac Mini's are, Apple is probably doing as all a favor by doing this seeing how €900 for a machine with an i3 (quad core thou), 8GB or RAM and a 128 GB soldered-to-the-motherboard-SSD isn't exactly reasonable.
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Originally posted by Deavir View Post
Unless you are a developer and want to test/develop on windows, macos and linux but don't want multiple machines around.
In the case of the Mac Mini I may seriously consider getting one, possibly next year, to run Mac OS. I really don’t see the Mini as being grossly over priced compared to similar Lonovo or NUC hardware. There are certain bad price points but I do have gray matter left between the ears.
It will be very interesting to see how these new models test out. As for Linux I have to wonder if all those Linux developers Apple recently hired are working on a Linux solution for T2.
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Originally posted by Xaero_Vincent View PostShouldn't disabling "Secure Boot" enable Linux bootloaders and therefore Linux to boot?
I think this is good. It is important for people to see that hardware is only going to get more hostile. I want them to jump though all the hoops and then try to tell me that keeping their freedom is too hard.
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Managing the trusted keys is IMHO the basic functionality you need with any TPM, otherwise it's not your machine anymore...
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According to the T2 chip manual, Macs will have this utility:
Shouldn't disabling "Secure Boot" enable Linux bootloaders and therefore Linux to boot?
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Knowing Apple, that's just the beginning. I'm assuming going forward all Macs will have a T Security Chip and in about 5-8 years, Mac OS won't boot without it and killing off hackintosh.
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Originally posted by ALRBP View PostHonestly, I've always wondered why someone would buy highly overpriced Apple hardware to put GNU/Linux on it.
I know some people buy Apple because it's cool and/or it shows that they have money to spend (often taxpayers' money, of my experience ; and after that, they say government must save money…) but a technically informed person (GNU/Linux user) should not do that.
I also heard some people saying macOS is easier to use than GNU/Linux (macOS most probably not harder to use, but distros like Mint are easy to use ; the only potential hard thing is BIOS configuration when installing, especially with UEFI) and safer than Windows (which (10) I actually find pretty hard and inconvenient when I use it for games ; I will never use it again as main OS), but in this case, you do not put GNU/Linux on your mac.
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