Cannot really natively install Linux or Windows with M series chip, MacBook or iMac is truly dead once no more update?

[blinkoutatime]

I'm not sure if others are aware of why you can't natively boot other OS on M series. Apple's version of the ARM/RISC based chip arc is different than ARM the company's standard instruction set.

This would be why ARM versions of operating systems cannot run on Apple silicon machines, the instruction set on M series is larger and much more advanced.

If someone were to build a linux distro with this in mind it would work just fine as far as the kernel compilation itself, hardware communications for apple machines would need to be carried over then, and we would need to see what those look like in mach kernel.

This is already something being done by multiple linux teams. This also means that Apple always allowed other OS to install on their M series, if you know how to make one for it.

 

[Scrooge MacDuck]

In my view, updates are far less important than is generally thought. Security is mostly a marketing gimmick as far as the average home user is concerned.

 

[drugdoubles]

You are an optimist, you presume Apple silicon hardware will last that long
(in case it’s not clear, the above is a joke)
By the time Apple stops providing security updates for M1 computers, my guess is that you will be able to run Linux on them, either natively or very well virtually.
You could keep macOS for offline use and a virtual machine with Linux for online use.

M4 is out, but I still don’t think any Linux can run natively on M1

 

[bogdanw]

M4 is out, but I still don’t think any Linux can run natively on M1

See the other, more updated, thread "Linux running natively on M1?" https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/linux-running-natively-on-m1.2309344/page-6

 

[gank41]

M4 is out, but I still don’t think any Linux can run natively on M1

Asahi (now Asahi Fedora) Linux runs just fine natively on my M1 MBP. See my post here--

Asahi Fedora Linux Running on Apple Silicon

Hi everybody, The Asahi Team just officially released Asahi Fedora 39 for Apple Silicon and I wanted to share my experience as it may help some others out, I haven't really seen much posted here about it. I found it all to be super easy, and now that most everything is supported (Accept Citrix...

forums.macrumors.com

And then another possibly helpful post here--

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/asahi-linux-on-apple-silicon.2425442/